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Chocolate fondue

 

What does human trafficking and child labour have to do with chocolate? Find out about the work conditions that exist in Africa to harvest the cacao beans and discuss it over a delicious chocolate fondue with your friends. What do you know about fair trade chocolate or do you know who exactly produces your favourite chocolate? And take on action: Write letters to chocolate companies and producers and tell them that you want to know what they do against human trafficking.

 

Football game

 

Do you like to play football? Get your friends that like to play football as well and ask immigrants from your local asylum seeker center if they would like to play with you. Afterwards you ask who could see him or herself practicing with the local football club. Print out some application forms and try to get some of the migrants in contact with the club officials. Organise another game some months later and find out how the integration of migrants into local football teams can be ameliorated.

  

Ecological Footprint

 

Do you know how big your impact on earth is? Find out how much of nature‘s renewable bioproductive capacity you are currently appropriating with the ,ecological footprint‘ game. Discuss you results and what kind of actions you are willing to do to reduce your impact on earths ground. Sign all together a treaty that shows concretely what you intend to do and until when. Are you better than the current global leaders? Are you able to cut down your ,ecological footprint‘? Find it out with a progress ,conference‘ a few months after and look what you have achieved all together. Was your treaty more successful than ,Copenhagen‘?

 

Dinner with the neighbours:

 

Ask a foreign family in your house, in your neighbourhood, if you and your friends can come around for dinner. They should prepare their favourite traditional dish and you eat together dinner with them. Ask questions about their country‘s heritage they carry around or how they feel in the new country that is now their home. Discuss also how you think the exchange between your „two worlds“ can improve and find out on what you both agree that concretely be improved. Write a letter to your local council and tell them what you found out. In return of their generosity to offer you food and drinks you invite them around to your house. Now you cook your favorite traditional dish and you can analyse what your government has responded to your initiative.