Our recent projects

Campaign “World in the Shopping Cart”

- an awareness raising project. The aim of the campaign is to make Czech general public aware of the interconnection between their consumption patterns and selected development problems and introduce them alternatives they can use up in their daily acting as consumers. The campaign started in 2007 and at the moment involves two other organizations – Forest Stewardship Council Czech Republic and Friends of the Earth Czech Republic. www.svetvnakupnimkosiku.cz

Education programme “World in the Shopping Cart”

an education programme consisting of a set of 6 interactive workshops being carried out on schools, production of educational materials and multiplication via teacher and other NGOs The purpose of the project is to create and enhance awareness about the impact of our consumption patterns on people in the developing countries and to introduce Fair Trade as a positive alternative. The project is the first of its kind within the Czech Republic. www.svetvnakupnimkosiku.cz/skoly .

Global Issues

- an education project for teachers of English. Its aim is to raise awarennes on UN Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), to disseminate information on different problems of global south and to show possible solutions by teachers of English and their students. The project is created in cooperation with Austrian educational organization Südwind. The output of the project is a teachers book with language activities. www.globalissues.eu

Playing Fair Alternatives

- two years international project aiming to create and distribute Fair Play - a board game on the topic of cotton and global trade, Open Fair Book - manual for teachers and multipliers and theatre play on Fair Trade and related topics. Project is supported by European Commision and Development Centre of Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Partner organisations of the project are Pangea - Niente Troppo of Italy, Gaia Education Centre of Greece, Koperattiva Kummerc Gust of Malta and Reviravolta of Portugal.

Watoto

- a project of development and multicultural education for kindergartens running as pilot project in 2005 and then further on. It was the first activity of that kind in the Czech Republic. It was created in cooperation with Irish NGO Trocaire.

NaZemi

(a possible translation of the expression is “OnEarth”) – We are running 4 specialized volunteer-based small shops of Fair Trade products (2 in Brno, Prague and Olomouc), which serve as well as an important source of information about Fair Trade for customers and wider public. The profit is partly used to secure co-financing for other projects of SFT