LEARNING FOR SUSTAINABILITY - AN ACTIVITY TO ENGAGE LEARNERS

The 90kg Rice Challenge is a perfect activity for your school for several reasons:

• Planned lessons in line with the Curriculum for Excellence

• Teaching Resources provided

• Quick and easy to take part

The 90kg Rice Challenge is in its 10th year now and is becoming more and more popular due to its ease to take part in, its clear message, and its worthwhile outcome. The simple concept is that a rice farmer in Malawi has to sell 90kg of rice to give him enough of a sustainable income to run his farm, feed and clothe his family and enable him to provide education for his children.

The 90kg Rice Challenge is a teaching tool to demonstrate:

• the benefits of buying fair trade products here and how it positively impacts the lives of the producers in the developing world,
• how pupils can be global citizens by helping those in some of the poorest communities in the world gain an education and therefore provide a brighter future for their peers in Malawi,
• sustainability by providing a consistent market in the UK and thereby helping the rice farmers to work their way out of poverty with dignity and creating food security,
• social enterprise by allowing the pupils to run a business and come up with innovative and creative ways to sell the 90 x 1kg bags of Kilombero rice from Malawi
  

The Challenge costs £288 (£3.20 per 1kg bag of rice) and the idea is that having completed the lessons, the pupils will sell the rice on to family members or in the community in order to cover the costs, but some schools prefer to cook with it, host curry nights, bake offs, or do a Dragon’s Den scenario etc.

To take part in the Challenge:

· call us on 0141 255 0901

· email nicola@jts.co.uk

· order online at shop.jts.co.uk (upfront payment required for online orders)

· visit us at the Scottish Learning Festival on Stand H37