Schools Action Guide (low res) - The Fairtrade Foundation

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Presenter 2: What about if we start with a different idea? What about if we think that farmers should
get a better deal? What about if we chose a special sort of bananas?
Bananas that make sure farmers earn enough to live on? Let’s find out.
Young person 3: Yum! I love bananas. I wonder who grew these ones.
Young person 4: Look – the packet tells you! And because they’re Fairtrade, we know the farmers
got a better deal.
Farmer 3: We work together to grow our bananas.
Farmer 4: We share what we know and we help each other. Together we can sell more bananas
to buyers.
Buyer 2: I’m a Fairtrade buyer. I’ll give you a better price for your bananas.
Farmer 3: Fairtrade will also help us improve our farms and community. That’s only fair!
Farmer 5: We’ll decide together what we’ll do. That’s fair!
Farmer 6: I earn more money now. I can buy food, and send my children to school.
Farmer 7: I now have clean, safe water.
Farmer 5: We also have a better school in our village.
Teacher: Remind everyone that Fairtrade helps by paying growers and farmers a fair price, and also
by paying an extra sum of money (the Fairtrade premium) that they can spend on improving their
communities.
Tell the audience what else is planned for Fairtrade Fortnight and encourage everyone to get involved.
If you have time, you could
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Ask the audience how they can tell that
a product is Fairtrade, and show the
FAIRTRADE Mark. Does anyone remember
seeing this on other products in shops or
at home?
Show examples of other Fairtrade products
Ask what we can all do: we can tell other
people about Fairtrade, and look out for
Fairtrade products when we are shopping, to
help make sure growers get a better deal. If
we can’t see any, we could even ask for them!
This activity was adapted for Fairtrade
Fortnight from an existing resource with kind
permission from The Co-operative’s Green
Schools Revolution. For more resources visit
www.greenschools.coop
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