Fair Trade Day
Dear Friends,
It is estimated that over 40 million people globally are trapped in slavery or slavery-like conditions – one in four of them a child.
Some of these are trafficked into slavery and others forced to work in appalling conditions for a pittance.
Australian Catholic Religious against Trafficking in Humans (ACRATH) with other organisations, have produced an online Resource Kit to assist us in ensuring our schools, as places of education and where Gospel values are practiced, are free from the stain of modern slavery.
The Resource Kit contains valuable information about Fair Trade chocolate, tea and coffee.
Find it at: https://resourcecem.com/slavery-free-resources/
In his 2015 World Peace Day message, Pope Francis re-iterated the earlier call by Pope Benedict XVI (¶66 Caritas in Veritate)
“…every person ought to have the awareness that ‘purchasing is always a moral - and not simply an economic - act’...”
This coming Saturday - 8th May - we are called to act with the entire community, by promoting Fair Trade and abolishing Modern Slavery.
