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Wake up to the big fairtrade breakfast! 29 February – 13 March A cti o n Gu id e 2016 Sit down for breakfast stand up for farmers chur c h The Fairtrade Mark is 21 years old. We've made great progress and enjoyed some proud achievements. We’ve learnt a few things along the way too. We may feel like we’re all grown up but we still have a long way to go and a lot more to achieve! Share Fairtrade breakfast items before or after church, take a picture and let us know. We’ll add your breakfast to thousands of others on a special online map to show just how much the UK cares about the people who grow our food and drink. In Fairtrade Fortnight 2016, we will continue to grow. Join us in shining a light on the scandal that despite working hard to grow the food we eat every day, many farmers and workers in developing countries don’t earn enough to know where their families’ next meal is coming from. Fairtrade works to change this, and where producers are able to sell enough of their produce on Fairtrade terms, it can make a life-changing difference. Fairtrade now reaches over 1.5 million farmers and workers across the globe. However, with around 795 million people undernourished globally, and many in farming communities, we still have so far to go. You, and your church, have the power to change this. Please join others throughout the UK by taking part in the Big Fairtrade Breakfast, before or after your services. This guide offers some ideas for worship and all-age activities to use to mark Fairtrade Fortnight in your church. You can �nd more ideas and activities online at fairtrade.org.uk/fortnight You will know what works best for you and your own church situation, so of course feel free to adapt these ideas to suit your needs. If you have another great idea for mobilising your church for Fairtrade Fortnight, we’d love to hear about it. Please email hello@fairtrade.org.uk with details. Banana farmers Dalcio Castillo (left) and Misalia Martinez, Coobafrio co-operative, Colombia Put your church on the Big Fairtrade Breakfast map! Creator God, You created a beautiful world for all your children. As we taste and smell the fruits of this creation help us to remember those who farm the land to grow them. Help us live in a partnership of love and support with those who produce our food and drink so that we might enable others to feed their families and create a sustainable future. Amen. Loving God, you make us in your image. Forgive us when we fail to see your image in each other, when we give in to greed and indifference that are life-denying.As we are made in your image, let us live in your image in service, endurance and love. Amen. p r ay e rs A prayer for Fair Trade As I enter the street market Wheel my trolley at the superstore Leaf through a catalogue, or log on to the internet: Be with me and help me When I spend money Be with me and help me To see the market place as you see it As wide as the world you love so much Be with us and help us To share the markets we share For all people. As we live under your steady gaze, So we can change, by your gracious love. Amen. God of love and justice, we give thanks for the gifts planted in all of us. We remember the power we embody when we share these gifts: the compassion and understanding, the �re, and the vigour. We honour your Word living within us, inspiring people to protest at greed, to work for justice, to passionately share their resources and cherish all life. Yours is the outspoken love, Yours is the outrageous hope, Yours is the extravagant mercy. So to you be the honour and the power and the glory, Amen. For further resources, including:  All-age talk for Fairtrade Fortnight  Re�ections on lectionary readings  Information about Fairtrade and food security  Merchandise and resources  Further activity ideas Visit fairtrade.org.uk/fortnight Esther Bor, Kenya in t er a ctiv e p r ayer You will need: Fairtrade coffee, Fairtrade rice, Fairtrade chocolate, a laptop to show a video, a thought for each station written and ready. Create prayer stations around the church for each sense: touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing. Bowl of coffee. Encourage people to smell it and think about the bitterness of injustice in our world, that many coffee farmers in Latin America don’t earn enough to guarantee feeding their families all year round. Smel l Get children to draw their best breakfast ever on a paper plate. They write a prayer for the people who have made their food on the back. You can either display them in your church or ask your local supermarket to put them up to show how much people in your community value Fairtrade products. 1 The most amazing breakfast ever Write a grace on the plate thanking God for food and praying for a world in which everyone has enough to eat and feed their families every day. Read them out or display them. 2 Grace on a plate Ask the children to draw pictures on the plate of the silliest breakfast they can dream up. It might be chocolate and baked beans or ketchup on corn�akes, egg and banana wraps! Or write a silly new recipe with unusual ingredients. If they think this is silly then ask them to think about how silly it is that so many people go hungry when there is enough food in the world for everyone. Share with them how Fairtrade works to try to change this. Use the stories at fairtrade.org.uk/fortnight 3 A silly breakfast * You will need: Paper plates, colouring pens, pencils or crayons. Craft activities You can build on this idea by including other Fairtrade products and sharing the stories of the people behind them. Bowl of Fairtrade rice. Encourage people to run their �ngers through it and, as they do, think about the hard work that has gone into getting it to the table or bags. Touch using a tem-plate! Choose a video from the selection at www.youtube.com/ fairtradefoundation and show it to communicate the difference we can all make by choosing Fairtrade. The 90-second Fairtrade Matters clip or video at fairtrade.org.uk/rahel could work well. See AND HEAR *Adapted from CAFOD education resources Bowl of Fairtrade chocolate or a banana. People have a piece each and think about the many people who are hungry today due to food insecurity. It’s estimated around 795 million people are undernourished globally. Taste Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on More than half of the world... We aren’t going to have peace on earth until we recognise this basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality. Martin Luther King Jr Why do you think Martin Luther King says we won’t have peace on earth until we recognise this? Think about where your breakfast came from this morning. Tea from India or Kenya, coffee from Ethiopia or Honduras, bananas from Colombia or the Windward Islands, sugar from Malawi or Fiji? What work by farmers might have gone into producing these products? Is it fair that those who produce our food don’t earn enough to feed themselves or their families? What is the Fairtrade Foundation doing to challenge this? Food security cannot be taken for granted in many parts of the world, including for many who grow the things we consume every day, such as cocoa or coffee. In some Latin American countries for example, many coffee growing families still consider that they have no guarantee of food security for up to four months a year. It’s so common that the phenomenon has many names: the thin months, the months of the big stomach, seasons of hunger, times of silence or the months of water. It means families subsist on a basic diet of maize and beans, or parents skip meals and children can’t concentrate at school because they’re hungry. Have you ever felt really hungry? How did it feel? What did it then feel like to have a meal? Imagine if you didn’t know if you would have a meal today. How different would your day be? What do Christian and other Fairtrade farmers say about the difference selling on Fairtrade terms makes to their lives? How can you commit to buying more Fairtrade products as a church or individual? How can your church work to encourage shops to stock more Fairtrade products that change lives? What did Archbishop Oscar Romero mean when he said this? Some 795 million people are undernourished and it is estimated that half the world's hungry live on small farms, some of which grow crops to export. How do you and your church challenge the injustices that cause hunger and food insecurity? Archbishop Oscar Romero It is not God’s will for some to have everything and others to have nothing. Thanks to Christian Aid Collective for creating the church resources. Check them out at christianaidcollective.org fairtrade.org.uk Fairtrade Foundation, 3rd Floor, Ibex House, 42-47 Minories, London EC3N 1DY Tel: +44 (0) 20 7405 5942 Email: mail@fairtrade.org.uk Registered charity no. 1043886 A company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales no. 2733136 Photography credits: Trevor Appleson, Tessa Jol, Simon Rawles, Eduardo Martino Christian Dubon, coffee farmer, Honduras Fairtrade gives us the security that we will get at least the minimum to be able to have a decent life in the future… Acknowledgments FA IRTRA D E FO OD F O R TH O U G HT (for discussion in small groups) Above is adapted from CAFOD education resource