Platform2
A global volunteering experience funded by DFID
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Sections:
Discovery Zone
How we fight poverty
Race against global poverty
Teachers
- International Education Week 2008
- Race Against Global Poverty teaching resources
- Conflict Children campaign with First News and Save the Children
- Global Dimension - DFID-sponsored teachers' site
- DFID Global School Partnerships
- Think Global DFID teachers' supplement in Education Guardian.
- DFID Global Study Planner
Children
- Help Conflict Children around the world
- World View: Children's lives in 2008
- Mission Impossible? Loads of you write to us about issues affecting poor countries. So we sent Caris reporters Rachel Butcher, Lily David and Nadia Sulaimer to interview Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for International Development
Under 25s
Top 5 tips
- Driving six and a half miles to buy your shopping emits more carbon than flying a pack of Kenyan green beans to the UK.
- British shoppers spend over £1 million a day on imported fruit and vegetables from Africa and the livelihoods of more than a million farmers and their families depend on this trade.
- Air-freighting fruit and vegetables from Africa accounts for less than one-tenth of 1% of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions.
- Emissions produced by growing flowers in Kenya and flying them to the UK can be less than a fifth of those grown in heated and lighted greenhouses in Holland.
- The organic fruit, vegetable and flower export trade to Europe is worth an approximate US$100 million annually in exports from developing countries.