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Poverty Unit (1.53 MB) Powerpoint for post-16 students exploring issues connecting poverty and trade - includes case studies from CAFOD, Depaul Trust and Fairtrade Foundation. Can be taught as part of an NOCN course, Edexcel Award, or as an independent unit within General RE	Global Church (2.33 MB) "If the Church were a hundred people..." How many Catholics are there worldwide and what kind of a force for change does this represent? Explore these issues and more in our PowerPoint.	What will make poverty history? KS3 (25.33 kB) A worksheet - originally part of CAFOD's Make Poverty History resource pack. Includes a list of the Millennium Development Goals.
Insufficient aid: KS3 (28.87 kB) A worksheet for classroom groupwork, to discuss whether insufficient aid is a cause of poverty.	Unfair trade rules: KS3 (29.25 kB) A worksheet for classroom groupwork, to discuss whether unfair trade is a cause of poverty	Unpayable debt: KS3 (32.38 kB) A worksheet for classroom groupwork, to discuss whether debt is a cause of poverty.
Trade factsheet (1.34 MB) Factsheet for Key Stages 3/4 looking at international trade	Poverty factsheet (842.11 kB) Factsheet for Key Stages 3/4 on World Poverty	Trade assembly KS3 & KS4 (36.50 kB) Assembly showing how international trade rules affect trade in developing countries. Makes links to the Make Poverty History campaign.
Debt factsheet (1.76 MB) Factsheet for Key Stages 3/4 on different types of aid and their effect	Aid factsheet (1.55 MB) Factsheet for Key Stages 3/4 on aid to poorer countries	Trading trainers game pack (2.39 MB) Simulation game set in an imaginary Latin American shanty town, where small family businesses are making training shoes to sell to the local market. This 14 page resource pack contains everything you need to play the game.
Wealth & Poverty Assembly (33.50 kB) Assembly for Key Stages 3 & 4 focusing on the gap between the rich and poor.

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