FAIR TRADE PRODUCTS

Bystroňová a Škrabálková

Created for project Teaching: An effective key to self-learning. This project was funded by European Union.

Where we can buy Fairtrade products

in Ostrava:

Marks and Spencer

Starbuck coffee

Dm

Teta

Our team favouriteFair-trade products:

Chocolate

Chocolate cookies

Cocoa

Tea

Juice

The journey of chocolate from bean to the stomach

Chocolate seeds are covered by banana leaves and dried out

at 50 degrees of Celsius.

ChocolateCoffeeTeaSugarDrinksNuts, riceDried fruitHandmadeOther

Main Fair Trade products groups in 2008Source: Asociace pro fair trade

The most popular products in the Czech Republic:

Do you buy Fair Trade products?

How often people buy these products:

Yes, but rarely

Sometimes

Never I am not sure

7% Regularly

Respondents were from the Czech republicSource: http://fair-trade-a-spotrebitele.vyplnto.cz/

Child labour: Facts and figures Global number of children in child labour has declined by one third

since 2000, from 246 million to 168 million children. More than half of them, 85 million, are in hazardous.

Asia and the Pacific still has the largest numbers (almost 78 million or 9.3% of child population), but Sub-Saharan Africacontinues to be the region with the highest incidence of child labour (59 million, over 21%).

There are 13 million (8.8%) of children in child labour in Latin America and the Caribbean and in the Middle East and North Africa there are 9.2 million (8.4%).

Agriculture remains by far the most important sector where child labourers can be found (98 million, or 59%), but the problems are not negligible in services (54 million) and industry (12 million) –mostly in the informal economy.

Child labour among girls fell by 40% since 2000, compared to 25%for boys.

Conclusion: 5 Reasons for buying Fairtrade products

1. Fairtrade products guarantee that they are children labour free

2. Workers get fair salary, at least the country minimum wage

3. Their working conditions are not inhuman

4. Fairtrade cooperatives improve the living condition of the whole community

5. It is one of the way how to help people in the developing countries

Thank you for your attention!

These are children who must workbecause their families are not

part of Fairtrade.