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  Audio Clip 2: Our Human Rights Group
"We"re part of a human rights group and we made an outfit, distributed leaflets as well, spoke to hairdressers, yeah we actually found the hairdressers for the fashion show, co-ordinated with lots of different people to organise it all. Especially with NEAD to what they want, we spoke to lots of people in our year group raising awareness about Fair Trade methods.
We"ve had several events such as The Crisis to raise money for that and we had an earthquake appeal where we went to Diss with a bucket and we raised quite a lot of money for that. And we had charity quizzes at Christmas for National Children"s Homes and it"s all just events that get everyone involved so the more people know about it. And if you can make it fun then people are more likely to join in and you can raise lots more money.
I think young people are the best people because they become more involved and if it becomes and is encouraged to become part of the curriculum or something like that then it just encourages people to raise awareness. More people to be aware of it and like young people sort of oblivious to what multinational companies are doing around them, they need to be more aware and talk more within schools so that things can be done about it when their generation comes to power.
The fashion thing was really good because it raised awareness for people throughout Diss and also saying Norwich and King"s Lynn. Definitely more people would now shop at their Fair Trade shop that we have in Diss because more people are aware that it"s there now and what it does and you find Fairly Traded tea and coffee and chocolate and clothes as well. The solution is not to boycott these companies but just to be aware and send, there"s these special fair trade cards that you can just send to them to get your message across but if you boycott them then the workers will be totally out of a job and it won"t be good. It"s not really a good idea.
They need lots of people telling them that they"re doing something wrong for them to do something to change it. They can"t get away with it here because of the legislation so obviously they move abroad and then when new legislation"s introduced they move the factories elsewhere, where it is actually legal. There"s no control over multinational companies at the moment. Yeah they sub-contract to other countries and there"s no health and safety, wages are really poor.
Somebody needs to really look at how multinational companies are functioning to see if there"s something all the countries together can do to stop it. Companies nowadays want to be seen as good responsible citizens and they"re getting more involved in society and charities and work like that."
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Justice
