1. © Fairtrade 2011 Copyright Fairtrade Foundation What happens when you choose Fairtrade?

2. © Fairtrade 2011 What are we going to be looking at? How tea is grown How Fairtrade works What is the Fairtrade Premium? Play a game where you make decisions about how money is spent

3. © Fairtrade 2011 3 Tea-growing countries around the world

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6. Copyright Fairtrade Foundation 6 The main tea growing area in Malawi has all the right conditions Rich and well drained soils on sloping ground High altitude: 600 – 2000m Hot, moist climate with more than 80in rain/year

7. © Fairtrade 2011 The UK takes one third of tea grown in Malawi Malawi is the second biggest African tea producer after Kenya

8. © Fairtrade 2011 Satemwa Tea Estate Fairtrade certified in 2007 Roughly 2500 tonnes processed tea per year, enough for 800 million cups of tea – which we’d drink in the UK in three days! Over 2000 workers: pickers and factory workers

9. © Fairtrade 2011 Satemwa premium: £400,000

10. © Fairtrade 2011 So what might you do with the Fairtrade Premium?

11. © Fairtrade 2011 Imagine you are on the Premium Committee for a Fairtrade tea estate. You have just received £1000 in Fairtrade Premium and must decide how it is going to be spent. You and your group represent all of the 100 workers living in five villages around the tea estate. There are 20 houses in each village. None of the villages have electricity. There is a healthcare clinic in one of the villages with one doctor. There is a primary school and a secondary school but not enough teachers. A lot of children cannot afford to go to secondary school. There is often flooding which damages the houses and during certain times of the year there is little food. Three of the villages have access to clean drinking water.

12. © Fairtrade 2011 Satemwa premium: £400,000 How have they spent it?

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14. Satemwa’s Solar Revolution  600 workers’ homes now have a solar panel and bulbs  For the first time night- time reading is possible; students can do homework

15. © Fairtrade 2011 Satemwa’s Education Revolution “Most of us dropped out of school without knowing how to read and write” Satemwa worker

16. © Fairtrade 2011 Satemwa’s Educational Revolution 33 new classroom blocks and desks for Satemwa Primary School 660 scholarships for children who would otherwise drop out of school EEvening classes for over 500 workers

17. © Fairtrade 2011 Rucassana Negow wants to be a nurse. She got a scholarship to school thanks to the Fairtrade Premium

18. © Fairtrade 2011 “Fairtrade has really helped me because otherwise I would just be staying at home. Fairtrade has kept me in school.”

19. How Fairtrade has helped people’s health “For the first time in my life I have drunk clean water from a bore hole!” Tea estate worker, Satemwa Malaria drugs Mosquito nets Clean water

20. © Fairtrade 2011 Building a new health clinic outside the tea estate A loan scheme so that families can buy things like iron sheets for roofing or a bike A nursery school for under-fives More boreholes so everyone can get safe, clean water Future plans

21. © Fairtrade 2011 Everyone benefits from the Premium

22. © Fairtrade 2011 What did we learn? How tea is grown How Fairtrade works How the Fairtrade Premium is spent