Enterprise Week 2012

Monday

19.03.12

Today we have been thinking about what Fair Trade means and how it helps farmers and people growing coffee and chocolate beans to be treated the same and fairly. 

We became cocoa farmers for the afternoon and had to work as a team to 'grow' as many beans as possible in the time of 5 mins. 

But ... the people buying the beans (Miss King and Mrs Gibson) were really mean and only took the best beans and the beans that were the right size! 

 Miss King also gave different groups different money for their beans. Unfair! 

Once we had sorted this out, we thought about how children lived in countries where Fair Trade operated. We learnt lots of things about how children live like the don't all wear shoes or go to school and they can't afford to buy toys and expensive game stations!

We think Fair Trade is a good thing!