- Title: Our Big Fairtrade Adventure
- Date: 1st January 1970
- Description:In My Big Fair Trade Adventure three Oxford teenagers take a journey around India on a mission: to source their very own fair trade school shirt. In this moving and entertaining road-movie documentary,we follow Martha,Robin and Diko,all aged fourteen,around the farms and factories of India. Along the way,they discover some of the darker sides of the Indian garment industry. The kids travel through the heart of IndiaÌøåÀå?s cotton growing areas. They are shocked when they meet child workers,some as young as 9,who are commonly used in the cotton fields - and see the harmful effects of pesticides used by most Indian cotton farmers. In the cities they visit an orphanage and meet children whoÌøåÀå?ve been rescued from garment factories. To make their ethical shirt they need organic fair trade cotton and a factory they can be sure treated the workers well and paid them fairly. They eventually find what theyÌøåÀå?re looking for and order school shirts made to their own design. Back at school they triumphantly sell their ethical school shirt to their classmates and show how it isnÌøåÀå?t that difficult to have a school shirt you can be proud of.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Music
- Producer:Century Films Ltd.
- Transmission Date:01/01/1970
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1970s