Schools Action Guide (low res) - The Fairtrade Foundation

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Chifundo is part of a
sugar-growing community
that grows Fairtrade sugar that
ends up in hundreds of things
we eat every day, from Sainsbury’s
sugar to Divine chocolate.
The Fairtrade Premium has
transformed Emma’s life as well. It
used to take her up to eight hours
a day to fetch water, carrying heavy
canisters several miles in the searing
heat, until the Fairtrade co-operative
decided to spend the Fairtrade
Premium on wells around the village.
‘Now,’ she says, ‘We put the dinner
on, and go to fetch water. When we
get back, dinner’s cooked.’
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Meet Chifundo…
He’s 14 years old and lives in a
village in Malawi with his four
brothers and sisters and his
mum and dad.
Every morning, Emma and Elliott,
Chifundo’s parents, are on their
farm by 5am to look after the sugar
cane plants, do the weeding and
make sure the drainage ditches are
working, before the heat of the day
is too hot. The fair price they get for
their sugar cane means they can buy
everything they need for the family,
and could afford a new roof for their
house. Last year they even bought
a cow.
There’s still a lot more Fairtrade
could do for Chifundo, his family
and his community, and everyone
has different ideas about what the
money should be spent on next
year – more school buildings,
books and materials for the children,
water pipes into the houses so
Chifundo’s family don’t have to
go and collect it at all.
Meanwhile, Chifundo is off to school
with his friend Francis. ‘We start
school at 7 o’clock,’ he says. ‘If
we’re late, we have to do a chore,
like sweeping the classrooms or even
cleaning the toilet!’ A year ago, lots
of children in Chifundo’s village were
missing out on education, but thanks
to the Fairtrade Premium, there’s a
new school for everyone.
Whatever the farmers and
their families decide, Fairtrade
campaigners all across the UK
just like you know that you’ve
helped put them in charge of
their future.