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Hello everyone – my name is Arnold Smith – I’m from the Aberystwyth Fairtrade Group. Slide 1. – this is our group logo – it’s based on the Fairtrade Mark most of you will have seen on bananas, fruit juice, tea and coffee in shops and supermarkets.

Thank you for inviting me to your Thanksgiving Service. Slide 2 Thank you for inviting me to your Thanksgiving Service. Slide 2. This is what I’ve called what I want to tell you about –‘Play Fair for Fairtrade’.

I’ll begin by talking about some shapes – what they are called and what we can make from them. If you know the answer to my questions put your hands up please. Slide 3. What is this shape?

Slide 4. It’s called a pentagon Slide 4. It’s called a pentagon. It’s called this because it has five sides and five corners.

Slide5. What is this shape?

Slide 6. It’s called a hexagon because it has six sides and six corners.

I’ve got a puzzle for you using these 2 shapes. Slide 7 I’ve got a puzzle for you using these 2 shapes. Slide 7. What can you make from 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons? This is quite difficult. I’ll put something in this space on the picture to help you.

Slide 8. -12 pentagons, 20 hexagons and 650 stitches to join all these shapes together. Here’s another clue. What you get is a sphere, a shape like the globe map of the world. You put a rubber bag inside it and fill it with air. You play a game with it.

Slide 9. It’s a football. One of the first games like football was put in pictures written about 2300 years ago in China.

Slides 10. Here’s a picture of some men playing ‘TSU CHU’ – in the old Chinese language this means ’kick ball’. The game was to keep the ball up in the air using only their feet. It was a very rough game – it was used t make soldiers brave and ready for battle.

Slide 11. It wasn’t always rough – here’s a picture of women playing tsu chu. Games like football have been played all through history in different countries around the world.

Slide12. In Britain over 150 years ago there was again called ‘mobfooty’. Everyone the village or the town could play – one half of the village against the other half.. It must have been a very rough game. Look at the picture and you’ll see a man who has been knocked to the ground, another shouting because he has been kicked on the leg, another sitting on a lamppost. On the radio yesterday I heard that 150 years ago the first football club was started in Sheffield.

Just over 100 years ago it was decided to try to make all the games of football in Britain the same. Rules were written down – how many could play, how big the pitch should be, how long the game lasted. What is the most important thing you need to play football? Slide 13 a football – if you look carefully you can see the shapes – pentagons and hexagons.

Has anyone any idea where most of the footballs are made in the world Has anyone any idea where most of the footballs are made in the world? Slide 14. This map shows the part of the world where footballs are made. Can you tell me the name of some of the countries? India and Pakistan.

Slide 15. Pakistan is where most of the footballs are made – in villages around Sialkot. Of every 4 footballs made in the world, 3 are made in Sialkot.

Has anyone any idea how many footballs are made in the world each year Has anyone any idea how many footballs are made in the world each year? Slide 16. 35 million.

Slide 17. Here you can see someone stitching the pieces together - 32 pieces of special material, 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons using 650 special lock stitches.

A good ball stitcher can make 4 footballs a day A good ball stitcher can make 4 footballs a day. Up to 10 years ago a lot of children in Sialkot, the same age as some of you older ones, couldn’t go to school – they had to work to earn money for their families. Slide 18. Here’s a picture of a young boy stitching footballs with his dad. He has to make a footballs to earn money for his family. His mum and dad aren’t paid enough to pay for everything the family needs – food, clothes, medicine’s when they’re ill, school fees.

How much do you think stitchers were paid in our money to make a football? Slide 19. How much is this?

Slide 20. Its 22p. It’s not enough for a family to live on Slide 20. Its 22p. It’s not enough for a family to live on. Many people complained about children having to work making footballs. In 1998 it was decided that no child under 14 would be allowed to make footballs.

But this didn’t make it any easier for families where mums and dads weren’t paid enough to live on. They still had to send their children out to work – in some cases this was to work in factories making sharp, dangerous surgical instruments. Slide 15 But then one football factory agreed to pay their stitches more money – how much in our money?

Slide 16. It’s the same as 38p in our money Slide 16. It’s the same as 38p in our money. It still doesn’t sound very much, but with two stitchers in a family it is enough to live on. So children don’t have to work and they can go to school. Stitchers could be paid more because there were some people living in other countries who were willing to pay more for the balls they made.

Slide 17. Paying workers and farmers a living wage is what Fairtrade is trying to do. It guarantees a better deal for Third World producers like football stitchers.

Slide 18. There are lots of things you can buy today that have the Fairtrade Mark on them – here are just a few. They can have it this Mark on them because the people growing them or making them had been paid a living wage.

Slide 19. Talon Sports is where Fairtrade footballs are made in Sialkot – here is one of their workshops where a ball like this one (show a Fairtrade football) are being made. If you look carefully you can see the Fairtrade mark on it.

Slide it 20. Talon has organised ball stitching so that women can make balls. They are not allowed to work alongside men so Talon has organised workshops just for women so that they can work together – here’s a group in a workshop. This gives women work to do to earn money for their families. It is one of the few jobs that they can do in Sialkot.

Slide a 21. This shows what Fairtrade does for stitchers. It pays a living wage. It provides work for women. It pays a Fairtrade premium – this is extra money that is given to the village where they work and the village decides how to use it. It might be a village clinic or health insurance or bank to make loans of money – these have been given to set up a teashop or buy a buffalo for milk (some is used in the teashop), a water pump to irrigate fields to give bigger crops or to set up a chicken farm. Fairtrade does all this and much more as well. The extra cost o making a Fairtrade football is only a small amount so Fairtrade balls shouldn’t cost much more. Unfortunately, at the moment, there aren’t enough people wanting to buy Fairtrade balls.

At the moment, only 5 out of every 100 footballs made by Talon are Fairtrade balls. If more people ask for Fairtrade balls, Talon and other football makers would be happy to make them and pay their workers a living wage. Slide 22. In Loughborough, a town in England, the Genesis football club has set a good example – they now play only with Fairtrade footballs and wear Fairtrade football clothes.

Slide 23. Me, your teachers, all of you and your mums and dads can help not only by buying Fairtrade footballs when you need one but also by buying more of the many products with the Fairtrade Mark that are in the shops and supermarkets.c

Slide FourteenSlide a 24. Choosing today to buy it Fairtrade would be a very special, a very good way for us to say thank you for all the good things we have – just as we are doing here today in this Thanksgiving Service. Thank you for helping me with the questions and listening to the story behind footballs and how Fairtrade is helping people making footballs in Pakistan. Aims To end the presentation, and encourage people to stay involved Key Points You hope that you will have inspired people about Fairtrade, and the way in which we can all make a difference by the small choices we make Encourage people to stay involved: They can find out much more about Fairtrade on the website - www.fairtrade.org.uk People can sign up for the Fairtrade Foundation’s newsletters online or by filling in the form on the Change Today, Choose Fairtrade leaflet Let people know about any campaigning networks or other events going on Finish by thanking everyone for their attention

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