Poverty
This is classed as having less than €1.64 or $1.90 (USD) per day.
What is Living in Extreme Poverty?
The key principle of Fairtrade.
What is 'Trade, not Aid'?
This was the percentage of people living at risk of poverty in 2022 in Ireland.
What is 20.7%?
A terrain where incomes are low compared to the national average and where communities lack quality services.
What is Disadvantaged area?
What was the main cause of Global Inequality?
What is Colonisation?
Approximately 383 million people live in poverty here.
How to look for Fairtrade products.
The Irish charity that focuses on childhood cancer and what the school Christmas market 2024 was for.
What is Gavin Glynn Foundation?
When a country takes over another territory and settles there to control it.
What is Colonisation?
Where the Industrial Revolution began in the late 18th century.
What is Britain?
Approximately 13 million people live in poverty here.
What is North America?
What are Bewley's, Insomnia and Starbucks?
The name of the Irish charity that focuses on cancer.
What is Irish Cancer Society?
Dishonest, abusing power or wealth for personal gain or influence.
What is Corrupt?
Coal, oil, rubber and coltan ore are examples of this.
What is raw material?
Approximately 2.5 million people live in poverty here.
What is Oceania?
The only retailer of Fairtrade flowers in Ireland that sold over 2.6 million Fairtrade roses across 130 stores around the country in 2017.
What is Aldi?
The Irish charity that focuses on homelessness.
What is Simon Community?
The partial or total forgiveness of debt.
What is Debt Relief?
This is used to build hospitals, schools, roads...etc.
What is tax?
The structure that describes different types of self-fulfilment needs, psychological needs and basic needs.
What is Maslow's Pyramid of Needs?
The 'extra money' farmers and producers receive through Fairtrade.
What is Fairtrade premium?
The Irish charity that focuses on poverty.
What is Society of Saint Vincent de Paul?
An international organisation that provides loans to countries in economic difficulties.
What is the International Monetary Fund (IMF)?
The term we use for money and other resources (food, tools, medicine…etc.) sent to developing countries.
What is Aid?