THE Windward Islands in the Caribbean are a long way from rural Wyre Forest.

But youngsters have been finding out about how farmers there and elsewhere in the developing world are benefiting from Fairtrade goods sold in shops in their local high street.

Pupils at Burlish Park Primary School, Stourport, have been finding out about Fairtrade produce and how they help people like banana growers in the island group.

Vi Higgs, school governor, was in classrooms explaining how more money from goods carrying the logo gets back into the hands of producers than from sales of other branded goods.

She took in packets of Fairtrade tea, coffee, and sugar to show Year 3s and 4s how to spot the items on shop shelves for themselves.

Mrs Higgs said: "What was good was that some children were saying my mom always buys things with that logo on' so they've already seen it.

"It's extremely important the children understand so they grow up with it and have been exposed to it."