Fair Trade Products Fundraiser: Cards from Africa

1. Fair Trade Products Fundraiser: Cards from Africa Haley Dervinis EDGI 512 Fall 2009

2. Introduction/Summary • Target Audience: • Urban high school students • Goals: • Develop an understanding of globalization and fair trade • Learn how shopping habits affect the global society • Expand knowledge of local efforts to support fair trade • Get involved by directly working with a fair trade organization and sell their goods at a fundraiser

3. Introduction/Summary • Proposed Activities: • Lecture, discussion, videos, guest speakers, research, fundraiser • Specifically: • Present fair trade information through lecture, discussion, guest speakers and videos • Research and discuss specific examples of fair trade practices and their effects on the community, country, and world • Introduce Cards from Africa through lecture, discussion, videos, guest speakers, and research • Work with Cards from Africa to run a fundraiser

4. Participants, Actions, and Related Expected Outcomes • Students: learn about fair trade, Rwanda and organize fundraiser • Teacher: guide lessons, set up guest speakers, take lead role in fundraiser • Guest Speakers: discuss fair trade, why it’s important, and how they are involved • Organization: work with students to sell goods at fundraiser • Consumers: buy goods at fundraiser

5. Actions and Outcomes

6. Actions and Outcomes

7. Evaluation of Completed Project • All students should be assigned a role • Possible duties include: • making promotional pamphlets or flyers • building relationships with local businesses • communicating with customers • handling e-mails, placing orders and distributing cards/bookmarks • other internal organizational tasks

8. Evaluation of Completed Project • Desired outcomes: • Can communicate what fair trade means and why it is important • Know the background of Cards from Africa • Be able to describe how Cards from Africa follow fair trade practices • Be able to suggest other businesses/products locally that support fair trade • Follow up assignment: • Reflection describing how the project has impacted their life (if at all), what they do differently as a result (if anything), and overall thoughts on how the fundraiser was conducted.

9. Plan Relationship to Globalization • Project aims to create global consciousness • Content, delivery, and participation should generate an understanding of what it means to be a global citizen

10. Plan Relationship to Multiculturalism/Interculturalism • Talk, interact, and work in multicultural environment with representatives from Cards from Africa, other people involved in fair trade, and a variety of customers • Humanize orphans in Rwanda and other local/international business owners that support the same fair trade mission

11. Plan Relationship to Technology • Use “skype” or “ooVoo” to communicate with representatives of Cards from Africa and possibly other guest speakers • Use internet to conduct research • Utilize email for communication with a representative of Cards from Africa • Offer customers the chance to order online through the Cards from Africa web site

12. Resources and References: Web sites • Cards from Africa: http://cardsfromafrica.com/ • Fair Trade Federation: http://www.fairtradefederation.org/ht/d/Home/pid/175 • FairtradeLabelling Organizations International (FLO): http://www.fairtrade.net/ • TransFair USA: http://www.transfairusa.org/ • World Fair Trade Organization: http://www.wfto.com/

13. Resources and References: Videos • Cards from Africa – BBC World Challenge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGywIpkGQCU&feature=player_embedded • Cards from Africa Holiday Invitation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVR6EektMc4&feature=player_embedded • EQTV. Fair Trade: The Story: http://eqtvconnect.ning.com/video/801594:Video:1147

14. Comments and Additional Information • Through lessons modeled after Mansilla and Gardner’s (2007) three elements of global consciousness: global sensitivity, global understanding and global self, students will be given the tools needed to become global citizens. • What should make this action plan strong is that it presents information and allows participation in a variety of ways which should accommodate multiple learning styles and strengths. • If school does not have access to the internet, then students can find a local store to partner with instead of Cards from Africa. • Students can opt to choose a different product all together such as a farm produced one (i.e. coffee, tea, flowers).