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How much do you know abouT Fair trade?

How much do you know abouT Fair trade?. What’s this?. What’s in a name?. If you buy a banana with the FAIRTRADE Mark on, what does it mean? a. Nothing, it is just a brand name b. It shows that the banana is ripe and ready to eat

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How much do you know abouT Fair trade?

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  1. How much do you know abouT Fair trade?

  2. What’s this?

  3. What’s in a name? • If you buy a banana with the FAIRTRADE Mark on, what does it mean? • a. Nothing, it is just a brand name • b. It shows that the banana is ripe and ready to eat • c. It means that the banana farmer who grew it got paid a fair price

  4. True or false • You can buy lots of yummy Fairtrade chocolate, which is made from cocoa. But some cocoa farmers are so poor that they cannot afford to buy any and many have never tasted chocolate.

  5. The sentences below form a story of how a cocoa bean is made into a chocolate bar. Put the story in the right order. • a) Then they dry the beans in the hot sun • b) The cocoa farmers look after their cocoa trees, and cut the cocoa pods when they are ripe • c) And finally the cocoa beans get squashed and mixed with milk and sugar to make chocolate • d) They take the cocoa beans out of the pods. Each pod contains about 30-40 cocoa beans • e) After drying in the sun for ten days, the beans are stored in sacks

  6. Think… • How can Fairtrade help the children of Fairtrade farmers or producers? Here’s a clue….

  7. Shopping… Can you buy: • a. Fairtrade flowers? • b. Fairtrade footballs? • c. Fairtrade paper? • d. Fairtrade oranges? • e. Fairtrade water?

  8. Matching • Match up the things Fairtrade farmers produce with the things we buy. • Fairtrade cotton • Fairtrade cocoa • Fairtrade sugar

  9. Let’s play! • Which of these balls can you buy as Fairtrade – there are four! • a. Footballs • b. Golf balls • c. Volleyballs • d. Cannonballs • e. Rugby balls • f. Bouncy balls • g. Basketballs

  10. Oh oh! Arithmetic… • Most footballs are hand sewn and each football needs 650 stitches. A grown-up can make an average of three balls a day, if she or he works for nine hours. How many hours does it take to make just one football?

  11. What am I? • a. ‘I am grown in countries such as India and Thailand. I need a lot of water. When I am growing I look like tall grass but once I have been harvested and processed I end up as small grains, white or brown. I can be boiled or steamed and I am eaten all over the world. You might have eaten me with an Indian curry or with a Chinese meal. Which Fairtrade product am I?’ • b. ‘I come from South Africa and other hot countries. I am juicy and round and I am named after my colour. Which Fairtrade product am I?’ • c. ‘I am from countries like Mali and Burkina Faso in Africa. I am planted and picked by hand which is really hard work. I am made into clothes, toys, pillows – you might even be wearing something made with me right now! Which Fairtrade product am I?’

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