Fair Trade pioneer.ALDO PIERSANTI'S parents, Lisa and Lino, were among the countless Italians who emigrated to Northern Europe after World War II to escape poverty. They returned to Italy when he was a teenager, settling in Ladispoli, just north of Rome. At that time it was a small seaside resort seaside resort n → playa seaside resort sea n → station f balnéaire seaside resort sea n → Badeort , but today it is a town of 40,000 inhabitants
The game is based loosely on the concepts from SameGame. . Piersanti finished his studies, qualifying as a surveyor and he went into his father's gardening business. He worked hard, and he also enjoyed fast cars and motorbikes. He spent all his money on what gave him pleasure, without much consideration for his future and for other people. Piersanti met his wife, Gianna, at a dance. She fell in love with him despite the fact that she had 'different ideas about life'. After the birth of their first son, a friend from the town invited them to attend an IofC conference in Caux, Switzerland Caux is a small village in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. Looking out over Lake Geneva from an altitude of 1000 meters, the Caux conference centre of Initiatives of Change[1] can accommodate up to 450 people. . Piersanti's values were turned upside Upside The potential dollar amount by which the market or a stock could rise. Notes: This is basically an educated guess on how high a stock could go in the near future. See also: Bull, Downside down. They returned to Italy determined to do something to help their community as they realised that it had no sense of unity. They set up a neighbourhood committee, based in the flower shop which Gianna and her sister had started on the premises of the gardening firm. More and more people were drawn into organising social and cultural events in the shop's spacious basement. As a sideline sideline See on the sidelines. , the shop started selling Fair Trade goods. These products are sold on terms which benefit the original producers and cut out the middle man. After ten years the flower shop closed. Piersanti started toying with the idea of retiring early to the farmhouse which he had inherited inherited received by inheritance. inherited achondroplastic dwarfism see achondroplastic dwarfism. inherited combined immunodeficiency see combined immune deficiency syndrome (disease). from his father. But he and Gianna felt that this would not be fair on their sons, who would have had a long journey to school every day and poor prospects for building their future. So, they decided to stay and start a Fair Trade cooperative shop. 'I think a shopkeeper's business is to make sure his customers leave not only with his wares We love "wares" in this industry as noted below. See also warez. abandonware adware annoyware badware beltware betaware bloatware boardware brochureware bridgeware censorware cloudware courseware crapware crimeware crippleware crossware crudware demoware donateware dribbleware , but also with values such as dialogue, friendship, justice and peace,' says Piersanti. After five years the cooperative is able to pay Piersanti as a part-time employee, but in reality he does not have time to take on any other profitable activity. The rest of the work is done by volunteers. 'For the future one of our aims is to create new jobs and prove that an alternative kind of trade is possible in our society,' says Piersanti. EDITED BY ANDREA CABRERA LUNA Luna Any of a series of unmanned Soviet lunar probes, launched between 1959 and 1976, responsible for various lunar “firsts.” Luna 2 (1959) was the first spacecraft to strike the Moon; Luna 3 (1959) was the first to circle the Moon and took the first |
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