“The Challenges” for Anti-Poverty Week 2009

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1. Support community action for fair trade

Challenge your council, university, workplace, faith community, school, sporting group, or community group to become a Fair Trade Community

2. Buy Fairtrade tea, coffee and chocolate and beyond!

Drink only Fairtrade Tea and Coffee for the week, for more information go to Oxfam and People for Fair Trade and find Cocolo Fairtrade chocolate in your local supermarket or just go to ‘where to buy’  to find a range of Fairtrade certified products – from exploited child labour busting footballs to sugar!

3. Buy ethically made clothing

When purchasing clothing throughout the week, look for brands that have been accredited to the No Sweat Shop label or use Fairtrade certified cotton (or both – some products made by Rise Up are made from Fairtrade cotton and manufactured in Australia (approved by the No Sweat Shop label). You can go here to join the fight against sweatshops globally or even find out how Christian activists are getting together against exploitation of people making products for the Christian ‘market’.

4. Support access to tertiary education for all

Show international students that you care and ask why TAFE fees are going up in Victoria

5. Reflect

Take some time during the week to reflect on ethical living in an age of consumerism.

6. Make a stand against world poverty

Stand Up! and help combat the trafficking of human beings

7. Join with others for justice

If you’re not already a member join the JustAct network to be informed about social justice events and actions, go to www.justact.org.au Check out the National Council of Churches in Australia Act for Peace which offers opportunities for action on poverty and peacemaking, email: http://www.ncca.org.au/actforpeace

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STOP PRESS

Check out Rise Up – a very special shirt for a very special cause.

Dan Macpherson gets shirty for No Sweatshop shirts made with Fairtrade cotton

STOP PRESS # 2

Make your $2 work for a better world! Take the $2 A Day Pledge this Anti-Poverty Week!

$2 is less than most of us spend on a cup of coffee, yet that’s what more than 2 billion people around the world must survive on every day.

By taking the $2 A Day Pledge for two weeks from October 17 (the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty) and choosing Fairtrade, you will be helping to actively reduce poverty by investing in some of the world’s most vulnerable communities.

Last year alone, AU$25 million worth of Fairtrade coffee sales in Australia and New Zealand helped provide farmers with over AU$2 million in additional funds to spend on their businesses and their communities – helping them build schools, roads and hospitals.

Who says coffee can’t change the world?

Make your $2 work for a better world – find out more and take the pledge!

www.2dollarsaday.org.au

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