Banana Link

Address:
38 Exchange Street

Norwich
NR2 1DN

Tel: 01603 765670
Website: www.bananalink.org.uk
Contact Person: Jacqui Mckay

Organisation Status:

• Cooperative NGO

Activities Information:

Overall aim/mission of the organization:
Banana Link is a small and dynamic not-for-profit co-operative, founded in 1996 that campaigns for a fair and sustainable banana trade. We work in close partnership with Latin American banana workers trade unions, small Caribbean farmers and civil society organizations in Europe and the U.S.

Educational goals and objectives of the organization:
Bananas are symbolic of the wide range of injustices present in international trade today. These include: • unacceptable working and living conditions for many of those who grow and harvest the bananas; • suppression of independent trade unions; • environmental devastation caused by toxic chemicals and intensive farming; • the disproportionate economic and political power of the handful of multinational corporations which supply bananas to the North; • the increasing buyer power of European and North American supermarkets (bananas are the single biggest profit making items sold in British supermarket) Bananas also link these issues to the international trade rules that increasingly shape our lives.

Educational services provided to schools:

Main educational services provided:

• Classroom based activities
• Advice and Consultancy
• Resources and Information

Target groups:

• Primary / Middle schools
• Secondary / High schools
• 6th Form / Further Education
• Higher Education

Geographical areas covered:

• Norfolk
• Suffolk
• Cambridgeshire
• Peterborough
• Hertfordshire
• Bedfordshire
• Essex (inc. Thurrock and Southend)

Cross curriculum dimensions included:

• Global dimension and sustainable development
• Community participation
• Technology and the media
• Enterprise
• Creativity and critical thinking

Fees for services:

 

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