Resources

The various agencies have produced many different resources to help people understand the issues and plan lessons and projects about Fair Trade. This page contains links to some of these resources.

• Fair Trade Overview

  Local information

  Hull One World Shop

  Website.
  For information on Products, Producers, ATOs, Campaigns, etc., click Links
  For information (Download Word Document) on Educational services available from Hull One World Shop, click here.
  

  Hull Fairtrade City Project

  Website.
  Directory of Fair Trade outlets.
  East Yorkshire Directory.
  

  UK National Information

  BAFTS the British Association for Fair Trade Shops
  

  The major international organisations:

  IFAT the International Fair Trade Asssociation
  NEWS the Network of European World Shops
  FLO International The Product labelling organisation
  EFTA the European Fair Trade Association
  
  

• Drama

  "To Believe is to Act" is the motto of Hull based Christian drama group - "Credo".
  Street Theatre suitable for use in services, meetings, and in the open is their speciality.
  Click www.credoarts.org.uk for details.
  
  

• Resources for young people

  • Games
    • Trading Trainers A trading games aimed at KS3/4.
    • Trading Shoes Another simulation game aimed at KS3/4.
    • DUBBLE Chocolate.
      Check out the Dubble website for lots of fun and games with Fairtrade Chocolate!
      www.dubble.co.uk
    • PaPaPaa - The Best of the Best.
      The website for teachers, which is full of everything you need to teach about Fairtrade, cocoa and chocolate!
      www.papapaa.org.
      As well as the free online resources there is a DVD + Photo pack available to order for £8, (order details on the site).
    • Trading Visions.
      Take Chocolate . . . unwrap a sweeter deal for cocoa farmers.
      www.tradingvisions.org
      
      
  • Lesson Plans and worskheets
    • The story of CoffeeA Worksheet for primary shools children.
    • The G8 and Fairtrade A sheet for KS2 pupils.
    • Make Poverty History A pack for KS2/3 including worksheets, lesson plans and assemblies.
    • A fair price for Coffee A pack looking at coffee farmers in Mexico.
    • Multi-National Corporations A pack for KS3/4 looking at the issues surrounding MNC's.
    • Poverty A pack for KS3/4.
    • Trade A pack for KS3/4.
    • A Fair price for our coffee A primary school assembly about coffee growers in Mexico.
    • Why are people hungry?
      
      

• Resources to help you get to grips with the issue

  • Trade Campaign A bright colourful and simple introduction to the trade campaign from WDM.
  • Trade Justice Demands Find out what we're asking for in a little more detail.
  • Trade, debt and Aid:: Explaining the links
  • Trade Justice: A campaign handbook
  • Trade, Aid and Debt
  • Taking action - the global call to action
    A short piece that will help you understand how the UK campaigning fits into the international scene.
  • Trade Justice Campaign - the basics
  • The WTO explained
    
    

• Resources to help you dig deeper into the complexities

  • Taking Liberties: Poor people, free trade and trade justice
  • When Trade Serves God's Justice Biblical and ethical flashlights and suggestions.
  • Trade and Human rights
  • The general agreement on trade in services (GATS) - a briefing paper.
  • Gender and Trade
  • Lifting the burden, weighting the rules: faith foundations for the Trade Justice Campaign
  • Global trade campaign plan of action
  • Trade Justice: A Christian Response to global poverty
  • Trading away our rights
  • Rigged Rules and double Standards
  • When trade serves God's justice: biblical and ethical flashlights and suggestions
  • Churches in the US and just trade: the Free Trade Area of the Americas
  • The economy of grace and the market logic
  • A call to participate in econmoic globalisation
  • Engaging economic globalization as a communion
    
    

• Stories

  • Corn in the USA
  • Eat this A Story of Rice dumping in Haiti.
  • Milking it Why Jamaican farmers are throwing away milk.
  • Trade Campaign Stories. A collection of stories which link in with the trade campaign.
    
    

• Worship Resources

  • Prayer Resources
    • An international collection of prayers for use in the global week of action on trade justice.
    • A confessional prayer to help us to reflect on our part in this problem.
    • Building the Campaign on Prayer This Christian Aid resource helps us to reflect and pray individually on the issue.
    • The Trade Pledge Prayer
  • Songs and Hymns
    • Songs and hymns for a service on trade A selection from common hymnbooks.
    • An internationally flavoured collection of songs listed especially for the global week of action on Trade.
    • A couple of songs with full words
  • Bible Studies
    • Act Justly A Collection of Bible Studies, for use in a small group, to help you think through world issues.
    • Three Bible Studies for reflecting on trade
  • Sermons, talks, dramas and reflections
    • Reflection on the trade justice badge
    • Meditation on Justice
    • Drama - On top of the World
    • An all age talk about trade
    • Hearing God's call in the Marketplace A reflection.
  • Liturgy
    • Prayers and Readings for a service about Trade
    • An international order of service for the week of global action on trade.
    • An editable order of service for a service about trade.
    • Living a legacy of justice making Liturgy from the North American Churches consultation 'Just trade agreements' held Jan 2004.