Fair trade

Last term we started our fair trade topic and this is like a summery of what we have been learning
 I have found out that fair trade is a organisation that helps slaves that earn next to nothing and
pays them more for what they do and give less to the retailers .  I got a message as a consumer that i need to buy
fair trade products so people around the world are happy and can life a good life.
this topic changed me because now i will think twice before i just go and buy a random chocolate bar or bananas
i will look for the fair trade label and if it not to much more and i will buy that bar of chocolate.

Persuasive writing

Child slavery

Child slavery is awful.  It should be banned.  Did you know… most kids in the poor countries don’t even go to school because they have to work to feed their family and pay of their parent’s depts.  When they work they only get about 4 dollars a week for working 16 hours, and they roll about 10,000 smokes a day and if they mess up 1 smoke they don’t get p1`aid for that day

Did you know that 250 million kids around the world are child slaves.  Child slaves make 80% of your food.  Nigeria has the highest count of child slaves with over 40,000 slaves working every day.  Nigeria also has the worst conditions to work most kids get really bad diseases and sometimes die just to feed their family.  Child slaves work in big firework factories with about 1,000 kids in each factory.  With kids aged between 5 and 15.  When your having the time of your life watching the pretty colours of the fireworks there are kids out in the factories with burnt hands and arms working day and night to make your life fun.

Craig Kielburger  a 12 year old Canadian boy read a story about a boy who was working in a factory to pay of his parents dept. and he ran away  and he was telling anyone that would listen about his story and later on in his life he was killed by the boss of the factory and that inspired Craig to do something about child slavery.  He made up an organisation called free the children and he is now over 20 and still working to ban child slavery.

You at home can help by only buying products that have a fair trade label on it and if you don’t know what the label looks like you can go on to the fair trade website. If you don’t know what fair trade is it is a organization that helps slaves that are getting paid very little and paying them a fair amount of money.

So next time you are out at the supermarket , sports shop or clothing shop look out for the fair trade logo and don’t just look for a brand name that you have brought before try out fair trade so we can help save the children from slavery.

Buddies

 For the past couple of weeks we have been working on our making taniwhas and ladders which is just like snakes and ladders but some of the numbers are maori. Today we finished them and played them for the first time and when we finished playing we gave them to our buddies.