Trade not Aid… Fair Trade? A Case Study in Successful

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Starter Questions

1. What is trade?

2. What is aid?

3. What is fair trade?

Task 1

•Go to the fair trade website at:

•www.fairtrade.org.uk/en/what-is-fairtrade

•Read the ‘What is Fair Trade?’ page

Task 2

•Go to YouTube:

•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J60mvcp_Q_E

•Watch the Fairtrade video

Task 2

•Go to the Fairtrade website:

•http://schools.fairtrade.org.uk/resources/activities-and-games

•And play the squeezed banana game.

Plenary Questions

1. Is ‘Fair Trade’ a kind of aid?

2. Does it work better than aid, does it work at all?

3. Is it actually fair?