Posts Tagged ‘Fairtrade’
Keeping Warm and Staying Fair
Students at St Mary of the Angels Secondary College in Nathalia are staying warm this winter with newly acquired Fairtrade scarves. The scarves, in school colours, are the result of the school’s culture of justice, vibrant student leadership, a tenacious teacher and ETIKO. The country Victorian school’s Social Justice Leader Ruth Bakogianis, said the school…
Read MoreFairtrade Sports Balls
The September page of the 2022 ACRATH Calendar encourages the purchase of Fairtrade sports balls to reduce the rsik of slavery. Did you know that the leading producer of sports balls in the world is Pakistan, which produces approximately 70% of the world’s sports balls? Other Asian countries are also major producers? Pakistan produces 40…
Read MoreSlavery-Free Sports Balls
Kick the old sport balls and go slavery-free. Catholic Mission and ACRATH (Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans) joined forces this week to shine a spotlight on slavery-free sports balls in schools. Catholic Mission visited St John’s Primary School in Mitcham, Victoria, to acknowledge the school’s participation in the 2020 Socktober Campaign. Socktober is…
Read MoreChanges Make A Statement
Can you make a change this year? Last year we asked our newsletter readers to let us know what they are doing to try and eliminate products from their lives that might be made by forced labour or by people who are paid little money and work in exploitative conditions. One reader Karen Oxley, after reading…
Read MoreCommitted to Change
A very energetic group took part in the ACRATH Slavery-Free Morning Tea. During this online event held on Thursday 4th March participants were eager to name the changes they are making as they play their part in eliminating modern slavery and child labour. A selection of comments were as follows: I am no longer going…
Read MoreBe a Good Egg This Easter
Are you buying #traffikfree Easter Chocolate? In the lead up to Easter 2015, support cocoa farmers and help stamp out child slavery and trafficking in the cocoa industry by buying and consuming certified Easter eggs. Mary Appiah is a farmer who grows cocoa. The more cocoa she sells on Fairtrade terms, the more her community can…
Read MoreBe a Good Egg This Easter
Buy Slavery-Free Chocolate Presently children as young as 12 years old are picking cocoa in West Africa to make the chocolate we eat. Some of these children are trafficked. Most are forced to pick cocoa from an early age for minimal or no wages, for long hours, in dangerous working conditions, without any possibility of…
Read MoreACRATH Newsletter June 2012
Latest ACRATH News The latest issue of ACRATH News reports on a workshop organised by ACRATH Victoria entitled ‘Understanding and Addressing the Demand Side of Sex Trafficking’ which was led by Professor Bob Pease, Chair of Social Work at Deakin University. Other articles include Building on Asia-Pacific Networks and Fairtrade Update. Download a copy of…
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