Fairtrade February Friday No: 1

This February our challenges will be about Fairtrade and how we can get involved with promoting it! Each Friday there will be a challenge for the week ahead, each challenge being like a mission - how can you make your world Fairtrade?

Our first Fairtrade February Friday Mission is chocolate based!
We all love chocolate, don't we?! But is your favourite chocolate company Fairtrade?

Cadbury's Dairy Milk Chocolate is one very popular chocolate range, and it is now Fairtrade! This is the starting point - the part where we come in. What we're going to do is simple: complain to our favourite chocolate companies that aren't Fairtrade! We"redoing to contact them, tell them that we won't eat their chocolates, and complain until they give in!!!!!!

OUR BIGGEST TARGETS:

1: Nestlé
(Kit Kat, Milo, etc.)

Phone numbers:

Head Office - (02) 8756 2000

Consumer Services - 1800 025 361

2: Mars
(Mars Bars, M&Ms, etc.)

To send a feedback form to Mars, visit http://www.mars.com/global/about-mars/contact-us.aspx



Those companies are our two major targets, time to get started!

Have a great first week of Fairtrade February!

Our 8th Odd Sock Wednesday

Tomorrow marks our 8th Annual Odd Sock Wednesday!

This event is also being promoted on our Facebook page.
Click here to check it out.

The rules are simple - wear your odd socks for the day for those who cannot afford socks!

For more info, check out the Challenges page on the right.

Have fun

Oxfam Foundation - Making a Difference

Hi everyone

This post is about another AWESOME foundation called Oxfam.
The Oxfam foundation is like lots of great different organisations bunched into one!
The foundation takes on a heap of different roles in the big march away from poverty; they are promoting social justice, making the world know that everyone in this world needs fresh water and acting on that problem, and have volunteers everywhere! making sure that the world knows that they CAN make a difference!

The website is a much better and thorough way to learn about Oxfam, so check it out here

Challenges to Change - Now on FaceBook!

Do you have a Facebook page or account?

Challenges to Change is now on FaceBook

Our Facebook page will be a new and easier way to see what's happening and how we're making a difference

So come and find our page - tell your friends!

This new way of checking the blog will be easier to view and to promote, as Facebook is a great way of doing both of those things

Also, now you can share your ideas and tell us what you think should happen by posting on our wall

The possibilities are endless

So click the link " Find us on Facebook " on the right, and why not follow us on Facebook

Merry Christmas and New Year - Odd Sock Wednesday no: 7

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and has enjoyed 2011 - a year full of fun, surprises,

and challenges!

I really need to thank everyone who has supported this blog - you guys are the ones who are keeping it going!

I'd especially like to thank my wonderful friends - Jeremy, Amy, Joe, Laura, Leah, and all my friends at the Centre For Global Learning/Global Poverty Project. I'd also like to thank my awesome friends in the Vinnies group that are supporting social justice big-time!

Well, 2011 is pretty much over - but the challenges don't end here!

2012 starts with our 7th Annual Odd Sock Wednesday, followed by a year of fun, fasting, and fair trade chocolate, and we'll be coming to the 1 year anniversary of the blog - so there's heaps to look forward to!!!!!!!

Have a wonderful New year, and don't forget the odd socks this Wednesday!

Cya!

Merry Christmas - A final Christmas Challenge

Hello Everyone

I hope you are all enjoying your Christmas season
We have one final challenge before Christmas: The Christmas Eve fast
This Challenge is a "seasonal" version of "Saturday for Somalia", and it only feels right-before we indulge our puddings and cakes the next day-that we have some time to remember those suffering lack of food this Christmas

The basic rule - minimise the amount of food you eat from the hours of six to six

Have a Merry Christmas

6 MONTHS OF CHALLENGES

This coming week marks the half year mark for our blog!
For half a year we have been challenging ourselves to help others in need!
We've done a great job so far.......

ODD SOCK WEDNESDAY TAKE 6

Time to bring out the odd socks again this wednesday!

THIS CHRISTMAS, MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

The Caritas organisation have created an appeal that will help people in need this christmas.
Give your friends and family members a gift while changing the lives of others less fortunate than us. By making this donation, you will be supporting the fulfilment of the MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS. To make a difference this Christmas, click this link.

Thanks guys