Poverty and wealth
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A video telling the story of a singing peanut from the US that takes a journey through Senegal, Bolivia, and Mozambique and finds out why other nuts are at a disadvantage under current trade rules. It features lively animation, music, archive footage, and documentary clips to bring to life the serious issues of unfair trade
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Powerpoint for post-16 students exploring issues connecting poverty and trade - includes case studies from CAFOD, Depaul Trust and Fairtrade Foundation. Can be taught as part of an NOCN course, Edexcel Award, or as an independent unit within General RE
A Tale of Two Cities downloadable version (1.86 MB)
To save this animation to play back later, right-click on the link above and choose "Save Target As" (Mac users, control-click and choose "Download Linked File"). You will need to have Macromedia Flash Player installed on your computer to play it back.

Share the future KS3/4 (1.01 MB)
An 18-slide powerpoint presentation featuring young people in Africa
Debt factsheet.pdf (128.42 kB)
2-page factsheet for Key Stages 3&4 on different types of aid and their effects
Trade factsheet pdf (138.44 kB)
2 page factsheet for Key Stages 3&4 factsheet looking at international trade

Trading trainers game pack (2.39 MB)
Simulation game set in an imaginary Latin American shanty town, where small family businesses are making training shoes to sell to the local market. This 14 page resource pack contains everything you need to play the game.
![More than 700 campaigners rallied before delivering anti-poverty messages to every EU embassy in London [CAFOD]](/var/storage/images/media_folder/cafod/images/campaign_images/trade_justice_campaign_images/embassy_bus/199633-2-eng-GB/embassy_bus_0column75_06space_landscape.jpg)
Trade assembly KS3 & KS4 (36.50 kB)
Assembly showing how international trade rules affect trade in developing countries. Makes links to the Make Poverty History campaign.
![A villager in Chukeni, Zambia, where the harvests have been hit by drought [Annie Bungeroth]](/var/storage/images/media_folder/cafod/images/international_images/africa/zambia/woman_holding_farm_tool_zambia/4425-2-eng-GB/woman_holding_farm_tool_zambia_0column75_06space_landscape.jpg)
Wealth & Poverty Assembly (33.50 kB)
Assembly for Key Stages 3 & 4 focusing on the gap between the rich and poor.

World Gifts: Make a world of difference
Join forces with people in your parish or school to buy World Gifts for your own Virtual Village. Your community can make tangible and lasting improvements to other communities living in poverty


![Refugees gather at a makeshift camp near Kibati, 12 km north of the provincial capital of Goma, October 29, 2008 [REUTERS/Stringer, courtesy www.alertnet.org]](/var/storage/images/about-cafod/where-we-work/dr-congo/images/refugees-who-fled-fighting/934156-2-eng-GB/refugees-who-fled-fighting_0column50_04space_landscape.jpg)

![More than 700 campaigners rallied before delivering anti-poverty messages to every EU embassy in London [CAFOD]](/var/storage/images/media_folder/cafod/images/campaign_images/trade_justice_campaign_images/embassy_bus/199633-2-eng-GB/embassy_bus_0column50_04space_landscape.jpg)
![Fatna (right) brings home wood that she and some neighbours have harvested from outside the camp in Kubum, south Darfur [Paul Jeffery/ACT/Caritas]](/var/storage/images/about-cafod/where-we-work/sudan/images/fatna-right-brings-home-wood/247664-2-eng-GB/fatna-right-brings-home-wood_0column50_04space_landscape.jpg)
![Niccollette and Shrirvanie film the aftermath of the Guyanan floods, with support from CAFOD partner Guyana Human Rights Association [CAFOD]](/var/storage/images/about-cafod/what-we-do/communications/images/after-guyana-floods/679742-1-eng-GB/after-guyana-floods_0column50_04space_landscape.jpg)



![Nontobeko Nkomo and Mongameli, aged two, at Empandeni Primary School, Zimbabwe. The lack of food is reaching a critical level - many families are starving [Annie Bungeroth]](/var/storage/images/where_we_work/africa/zimbabwe/images/nontobeko_nkomo_and_mongameli_aged_two/191744-3-eng-GB/nontobeko_nkomo_and_mongameli_aged_two_0column75_06space_landscape.jpg)
![David Gwemani monitors the effects of IMF-designed Structural Adjustment Programmes in Zambia [Gideon Mendel]](/var/storage/images/media_folder/cafod/images/international_images/africa/zambia/david_gwemani/4810-2-eng-GB/david_gwemani_0column75_06space_landscape.jpg)
![Campaigners at the Global Week of Action for Trade Justice in April 2005 [TJM/Simon Rawles]](/var/storage/images/get_involved/campaigning/images/make_poverty_history_images/mass_lobby_05_flier_image/2792-2-eng-GB/mass_lobby_05_flier_image_0column75_06space_landscape.jpg)


