It is important to support people that lose out when trade is unfair. When people who grow things like cocoa for chocolate and or make things like footballs they can sell to Fair Trade.

 

Fair Trade is a trading relationship that is equal and respectful.

 

 

 

 

 

1. Fair Trade means that the people get paid a fair price so that they can

 

- buy food

- buy clothes

- keep their house warm

- pay for school books and school fees

- pay for doctors and medicine

 

Can you think of any more important things that you need to pay for?

 

2. Because Fair Trade pays grown ups a fair wage, their children don’t have work too. The children can go to school if there is one nearby.

 

3. Fair Trade means that people don’t have to work long hours without a break, plantation or factory workers can have a holiday.

 

4. Fair Trade thinks about the environment and tries not to use harmful chemicals.

 

5. Fair Trade also means that workers and farmers can choose how they work and what happens at work. If they have a boss – she has to listen to the workers and include them.

 

6. With Fair Trade, the buyers pay for their things immediately or even before they receive them. This means that the sellers don’t have to wait a long time for their money to pay for the things they need.

 

7. Women have a special place in Fair Trade, their role is always extremely important and they are helped a lot. This is because women don’t often get any praise or thanks for all the hard work they do at home.

 

8. 800,000 families benefit from Fair Trade.

 

9. You can find Fair Trade products in Worldshops, or Fair Trade Shops. There are 116 in the United Kingdom

 

10. There are hundreds of Fair Trade products: tea, oranges, bananas, rice, pasta, chocolate, sugar, spices, tea-shirts, musical instruments, handicrafts…

 

11. Fair Trade started around 40 years ago and it has been growing ever since. Lots of famous people support Fair Trade, like Lenny Henry and Starsailor

 

 

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