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· Passion for Fashion Free http://www.risc.org.uk/education/Passion%20teachers.pdf
enabling young people to explore their links with contemporaries in the South. This pack is available in both school and youth work versions. It outlines the programme for an action-packed one day event which enables participants to explore the global fashion industry, and find answers to issues of ethical trade and workers’ rights. Although it’s presented as a one day event, each of the activities in the pack can be easily adapted for use in different situations.
· PaPa Paa – KS 3 Comic Relief Free
Curriculum links: Citizenship, PHSE, Geography, RE, ICT, Literacy and Numeracy. The pack provides a case study of the Fairtrade cocoa growers in Ghana. Pa Pa Paa, ‘the best of the best’, is their trademark. Activities, to suit all abilities, enable students to understand links in the cocoa chain, from cocoa farmer to chocolate eater. A trading game develops the concept of Fairtrade, showing how students’ own choices affect the farmers in Ghana and other parts of the South. The pack includes a colour poster, set of photos, and activity sheets.
· Fair Trade in Action – KS3/4 Fairtrade Foundation 2002 £9.95
Curriculum links: Citizenship, PHSE, Geography. An interactive resource which introduces Fair trade as an alternative to conventional trade. It encourages students to participate as active global citizens, while raising awareness of world trade issues. The pack can be used across the curriculum, and includes:
• a video, Forum on Fair Trade, with differentiated worksheets
• producer case studies and activity sheets ready for photocopying
• five copies of a board game, including role cards, student instruction and record sheets
• A Teachers’ Guide including background information, curriculum links, how to use the pack, action ideas, further resources and useful contacts.
· The Chocolate Game – KS 3/4, 16+ Leeds DEC 1999 £4.25
Curriculum links: Citizenship, PHSE, Geography, RS. A game for between 18 and 50 players based on the global cocoa trade. It takes 60 – 90 minutes to play, with participants divided into 9 different groups. Each group represents a family involved in the international chocolate industry from Ghana, Belize, Brazil or the UK. Players discover how their lives are interlinked through the chocolate trade and feel for themselves the influence purchasing power has on the lives of cocoa producers world-wide. The booklet includes information on the chocolate trade, Fair Trade, instructions and resources for the game, further resources and links.
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Labour Behind the Label - Bang out of order!
Rights and Respect for UK Homeworkers
This activity pack for activist groups contains basic information about the labour rights issues effecting homeworkers in the UK to improve working conditions for Britain's homeworkers.
It has been designed to offer interactive materials to be used in all groups of all ages. The activities included are six homeworker case studies, a time and motion study game and a homeworker role play. Also included is a powerpoint presentation to be used to introduce the issues, materials and actions.
Online Resources (downloadable)
LBL's campaigns bring together consumers, trade unions and campaigners in solidarity with workers around the world struggling to defend their rights and improve their working conditions. We take our cue from workers' organisations to target the companies and other bodies that play a role in the global garment industry, adding pressure from the 'consumer country' side.
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Sportswear
An international movement demanding that all companies in the sportswear industry to address workers rights, and arguing for the responsibility of sporting bodies like the International Olympics Committee, who preach equality and fair play.
High street fashion
Behind the window displays and stylish advertising of high street fashion chains are millions of workers round the world, struggling to produce clothes as cheaply and quickly as those chains demand. The campaign sets out the issues and the changes needed from each major retailer.
Supermarkets
Tesco, Asda/Wal-Mart and Sainsbury's are the top three clothing retailers by volume market share. LBL is investigating the impact of this new trend on workers, and has joined the growing calls to hold these players with huge buying power to account.
Ethical public procurement
Public authorities have considerable power as consumers to influence the behaviour of companies. This campaign aims to encourage local authorities and public bodies to consider the working conditions of those who are making the uniforms of people working for them, and to incorporate ethical criteria into their purchasing decisions.
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