Sustainable Fashion: A Handbook for Educators

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1:10-1:20 role Play: Global Interdependencies:

• Trainer introduces the role play.


• Trainer divides participants into four groups: Factory workers, factory owner,
  international clothing company and consumers.


• Each group receives one role card, flipchart paper and marker pen.

4 role cards.

4 pieces of flipchart

paper.

4 marker pens.

1:20-1:40 Work in groups:

• Trainer asks groups the following questions:
  
  
  • Describe, using three adjectives, what your life and work is like
    (e.g. sad, amusing, exhaustive, etc.)
  
  
  • What’s important to you?
  
  
  • Who are you reliant on?
  
  
  • Who is reliant on you?
  
  
  
  


• Each group discusses the four questions for around 20 minutes. Groups should answer
  questions in role and write or draw answers on flipchart paper.


• Each group should choose a spokesperson, who will present the group’s response to
  the rest of the participants.

1:40-2:00 Feedback:

• Groups present their work in the following order : factory workers, factory owner,
  international clothing company, consumers (around 5 minutes per group).

Adhesive tape to fix

flipcharts on the wall.

2:00-2:15 Discussion:

• Discussion in whole group about the causes of the poor situation facing garment
  workers in the garment industry and the unfair split of income. Participants should stay
  in small groups and remain in role.


• Trainer should moderate the discussion and, as far as possible, respond to participants’
  questions.

2:15-2:25 What we can do:

• Participants discuss in small groups what they can do to change the situation for
  workers and present back in the following order : consumers, international clothing
  company, factory owner, factory workers. One way to introduce the topic of
  consumer responsibility would be for the trainer to ask: Consumers find out from
  newspapers that there is child labour in a factory supplying the international clothing
  company. What should they do?


• The consumers brainstorm ideas about what they can do in this situation (e.g.
  research brands, write to the brands, support the Clean Clothes Campaign’s email
  requests for action, learn more about being a responsible consumer, boycott, etc.).
  Then they wait for the response of the other groups: international clothing company,
  factory owner and workers.


• All participants then discuss what consumers can do and what their responsibility is.
  Trainer writes down ideas for individual actions on flipchart to show the possibilities
  for taking action to improve workers’ rights and encourage the participants to take
  action themselves.

Flipchart.

Marker pen.

2:25-2:30 Conclusion:

• In a circle, each participant says what surprised him/her today.


• Trainers distribute information about working conditions, and thank participants.

Leaflets with

information about

working conditions in

the garment industry.

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