Special offer for Fairtrade Fortnight
Link your school in Ghana, Trinidad or Bangladesh
A link with a school in Ghana is an opportunity
to share what you know about...
...cocoa farming and the journey from Ghana to your corner
shop
...urbanisation and why families move to cities if they grew up on
farms
...traditional crafts such as elephant grass baskets and kente
cloth
A link with Trinidad would focus on literacy and
raising standards in written work...
...Poetry you could share about the experience of the early
immigrants to Britain
...Resistance and rebellion - understanding more about slavery and
a slave's experiences
...Harvesting one million tons of bananas - for how much of the
supermarket cost?
A link with a school in Bangladesh is a way to
show that you ARE bothered....
...by the unfairness of the garment industry (where did your school
uniform come from and who made it?)
...about the practice of cotton farming, who makes the money and
who gets into debt?
...about climate change and would like to learn more about how
people 'live on water'?
What do we do next?
Please email partnerfinding@globalgateway.org
with your chosen country in the subject line. We will ask you to
register your school and make a statement that affirms your school
wants to develop a global dimension to be embedded in the
curriculum and in the ethos of the school. You can start this
process at http://www.globalgateway.org/isa
To access free training to support your link (supply cover can
be paid) see
http://www.britishcouncil.org/globalschools-pd-workshops-intro.htm
The Global Gateway works with a range of
organisations and partners to help schools committed to Fair
Trade to link with partner schools in Ghana, Kenya, India or Nepal
to share learning about social and economic justice for small scale
producers.
Becoming a Fairtrade School
Schools register with the Fairtrade Foundation which offers
structured advice and support and a process whereby your school can
be recognised as a Fairtrade School.
Once you are a Fairtrade School or on your way to becoming a
Fairtrade School, you can approach us about the global linking
offers. Register on the site and email us with your preferences,
heading your email Fair Trade.
Fairtrade / Global Gateway offers
We work with the following organisations and
resources:
- The Fairtrade Foundation
- People Tree, the Fair Trade fashion pioneer – to help support
links to India, Nepal and Kenya
- Pa Pa Paa, the award winning Fairtrade chocolate teaching
resource from Comic Relief and Trading Visions – to help support
links to Ghana
- The Rights Respecting School Award, developed and by UNICEF
UK
- Rafiki, the online learning community
| and your class can tune into regular live webcasts from two
rural schools in cocoa growing communities in Ghana. Increase young
people’s understanding of Fairtrade and the actions they can take
as consumers and global citizens to make the world a better place.
Small charge |
| to do their Fair Trade project – the team will support you
week by week with Fair Trade research and online linking with other
schools in its global learning community. Charges
apply |
| and share learning about cotton farming, handloomed cotton,
the garment trade and the effect of economic migration to India’s
cities. With People Tree we have produced a factsheet of resources
you can share with your link school. (Free and you would be
expected to apply for funding to support the link.) |
| and support the link with the comprehensive Pa Pa Paa online
teaching resources on cocoa farming and the chocolate trade at
www.papapaa.org. You can also
purchase a supporting DVD and photo pack. (Free and you would be
expected to apply for funding to support the link.) |
| and share learning about traditional and modern jewellery
design and manufacture in small coops in Kenya. People Tree works
with Bombolulu Artisans workshop in Mombasa, Kenya. You could run a
small enterprise scheme to purchase and sell jewellery to support
this group – not by fundraising but by selling their products
fairly! (Free and you would be expected to apply for funding to
support the link.) |
| and share learning about wool production and traditional Nepal
handknits. People Tree works with Kumbeshwar Technical School (KTS)
to design and bring to market updated knitwear that is Fair Trade –
made and sold for a fair price. You could run a small enterprise
scheme to purchase and sell handknits to support this group – not
by fundraising but by selling their products fairly! (Free and you
would be expected to apply for funding to support the link.) |
| we can send you a list of useful contacts and case studies to
help you to get started. |
| by joining the ‘Dubble Agent’ online community of young
Fairtrade activists at www.dubble.co.uk. Dubble Agents can
order a resource pack to help them to get Fairtrade stocked in
local shops and educate their parents and local communities about
Fairtrade. |
We’re ready – what do we do next?
Please register on
the Global Gateway, then email
us asking for one of the above options - state that your interest
is Fair trade.
Note: we will ask you to start counting your
school linking work towards the DCSF International School Award.
Through your commitment to becoming a Fairtrade School you are
deemed to have a stated intent to incorporating a Global Dimension
into your school’s ethos and learning and to be including this in
School Policy Documents. This means you have ALREADY qualified for
ISA Foundation Level.
