Fair Trade - National For the third year in a row, together, we
have exceeded our goals for the National Valentine's Day of
Action. This year's goal: Educate 3,500 children and youth about
Fair Trade by Valentine's Day, using Global Exchange's Fair
Trade curriculum, providing students with a deep learning
experience about Fair Trade, starting many families on a
lifetime of interest and involvement in the Fair Trade movement.
And now…the numbers are in! The results: Educators taught the
curriculum to 3,870 students in the US; participants were spread
over 22 states, from Kentucky to Washington State and Nebraska
to Maine. Some educators from outside the US also reported in
that they taught an additional 207 students about Fair Trade in
the UK, Australia, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Moreover, social
justice clubs at one high school used Global Exchange's
curriculum and pooled their resources to create a brochure that
they distributed to 1,800 students at their school with Fair
Trade chocolate minis. Grand total: 5