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www.fairtrade.org.uk

Fair Trade fortnight
23 February – 8 March 2009

With unfair trade rules and giant companies squeezing poor farmers in the developing world out of business and into further poverty, now is a vital time to stand up and say “we won’t stand for unfair trade”.

The Fairtrade Foundation will producing a guide full of great ideas but to set you going we’ve set out three steps for a brilliant couple of weeks.


What is Fair Trade School?
A school that is committed to Fairtrade, sells and uses Fairtrade products as far as it can, and raises awareness of Fairtrade in the school and local community.

This is a great way of promoting the ethical and social awareness of your school and can be linked to PHSE on the curriculum.

Tower Hamlets Fairtrade Borough
Tower Hamlets was awarded Fairtrade Borough Status in October 2006. As a result of our support London became a Fairtrade City in 2008.

Where are we now?
The next stage is to continue to lobby retailers, schools, businesses as well as the council itself to increase support for Fairtrade.

Tell us what you are doing
We are gathering evidence to report back to the Fairtrade Foundation to renew Tower Hamlets Fairtrade Borough Status. We need evidence to show that Tower Hamlets and our schools are increasing their involvement in Fairtrade, through staff rooms, assemblies, lesson activities, events, school council work, guest speakers…

Please email the Humanities Education Centre, to tell us what you are doing to promote fairtrade hec@gn.apc.org

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Tower Hamlets also has another site for young people

Have your say, chat on line, see what's going on in your local area
Get involved with their Tower Hamlets Youth Partnership
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Let us know if you have any other concerns or other issues
hec@gn.apc.org
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