Logo Sweat Shop

Students will walk into a sweat-shop environment, where the students will experience the realities of what happens behind certain fashion labels. They will have to make logos to go on clothes as best they can under the challenging circumstances the FOF team create.

AIM: This inform young people what the conditions are like in sweat shops and to consider how their clothes are made.

The Boardroom

Being transformed into board members of a highly successful Fashion company, students are presented with an Annual Review by the Managing Director. This is a challenge for the students to see past the profits and benefits the company offers, and decide whether to vote ethically or let the company continue with its profit policies. After the boardroom meeting, the students will take a closer look at Fairtrade in an interactive session.

AIM: To highlight how companies can be unfair in the distribution of their profits and explain the importance of Fairtrade.

Long Hours, No Breaks

Students are put into teams, and under pressure they have to make crates of wool bobbins in certain colours. They have to contend with extremely quick breaks, unfair working hours and stern floor managers!

AIM: Students experience the unfair conditions people have to work in.

The Market:

The Flight of Fashion team create a market place, where the students must shop to keep their family alive and well with the money they are given as sweat-shop workers. As they go around the market, they have to make decisions between buying:

• Medicine
• Food
• Rent
• Education
• Sweets
• Books

AIM: The students learn how difficult it is for a family to survive on such small wages.