Resources

The various agencies have produced many different resources to help people understand the issues and plan events or services about trade justice. This page contains links to some of these resources. If you have found other resources useful, and they are available online - please let us know.

• Drama
• Photos
• Fair Trade day for Key Stage 2
• Worship
• Prayers
• Songs and Hymns
• Bible Studies
• Sermons, Talks, Drama's and Reflections
• Liturgy
• Resources for use with children and young people
  • Games
  • Lesson plans, assemblies and worksheets
• Resources to help you get to grips with the issue
• Resources to help you dig deeper into the complexities
• Stories and short articles (to download)
• Technical Tips

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Drama

• Credo: "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.
  
• Riding Lights, a York based drama group, bringing contemporary and eternal issues to life.
  

Photographs

• 215,000 people went to Edinburgh for the MAKE POVERTY HISTORY rally.
  Click FAIRTRADE CITY RECORDS to see photos taken by people from Hull.
• Your photos could be here... - Have you had an event to do with Trade Justice? Send us the photos, or the web address of where they are on the web and we'll put them up here.

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.
  • A collection of prayers on trade More prayers for use in corporate worship.
  • 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

• Resources for children and 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).
    • Quiz - How Fair is your home.
      Checkout your kitchen with our simple quiz - How Fair is your home.
    • "Chocolate Numbers" .
      Six simple questions to test your knowledge of chocolate and pocket money - Chocolate Numbers.
    • Smart Shopper fact sheet .
      Tips and advice on Fairtrade Shopping, and a list of useful websites for youngsters - Smart Shopper Sheet.
    • Test your knowledge of Slavery - 10 simple questions, click: Slavery Quiz - Questions Sheet
      Answers to the Slavery Quiz, click: Slavery Quiz - Answer Sheet
      
    • Test your knowledge of Fair Trade - 12 simple questions, click: Fair Trade Quiz - Questions Sheet
      Answers to the Fair Trade Quiz, click: Fair Trade Quiz - Answer Sheet
      
  • Lesson Plans and worskheets
    • The story of Coffee - A 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

  • The churches Regional Commission briefing paper Free and Fair explores the issues of the food trade.
  • 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 economic globalisation
  • Engaging economic globalization as a communion

• Stories and Short Articles

  • Children and Chocolate - Why Fairtrade Labelled Chocolate has a sweeter taste!
  • Corn in the USA
  • Eat this A Story of Rice dumping in Haiti.
  • Fair Trade Coffee - Richard Boden of Christian Aid visits Nicaragua.
  • Milking it Why Jamaican farmers are throwing away milk.
  • Trade Campaign Stories A collection of stories which link in with the trade campaign.
  • Fair Trade versus Slavery A5 page suitable for church magazines
  • Fair Trade versus Slavery Half A5 page version suitable for church magazines

• Technical Tips

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