our developing world Annual International Fair Trade Handcraft Sale

Handcrafts and Fair Trade coffee, tea, cocoa and baking cocoa, and Palestinian Olive Oil marketed by an Israeli and Palestinian women's coop will be available through December 19. Please call to be sure we're home.

And gifts of giving for the person who has everything. This will help low income students to become global citizens by experiencing our 20th Anniversary Free South Africa/Botswana Reality Tour with the add on of participation in the War Resisters International Conference on Non Violence in Capetown July 4-8. The tour begins immediately following in Capetown.

13004 Paseo Presada, corner Paseo Lado, Saratoga 3 minutes from #85 Saratoga Ave exit
Look for lavender door behind shrubs to left of driveway. Near Gene's Market

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Starvation or Survival

The question asked at the post session is : Who would these projects help?

  • Available for $20 with materials
  • We'd be happy to facilitate
  • We've given a shortened version in 45 minutes

The 'Discovery Store' or 'Nature Company' of World Peace

See what's new in peacemaking, gender equality, and sustainable living and get a $10 coupon!

Click here to see details.


Flash! Ireland just asked permission to adapt our “brilliant” simulation for use in all their primary schools ages 9-12!

Simulations involve people, put them in others' shoes, feeling global interdependence:

Starvation or Survival has four settings: Central America, Asia, Latin America, Africa or Women and Development in Africa. This activity is done in groups, each representing a rural subsistence village. 50% of the world's population are subsistence farmers!

Weather is determined by the throw of a die.

Local and global impact cards give each village (and sometimes all the villages) one reality at a time. This ranges from crop pests to World Bank and the debt crisis. Malnutrition can lead to disease. The second year the villages have choice cards which are real choices that subsistence farmers have made in poor countries. These ususally lead to positive outcomes. Through out the activity we ask: Does this happen? Where is this happening?

People remember this experience for years.

  • Time needed: 90 minutes can take you through the first and second year. If you have less time if we're facilitating we can manage and can help you to shorten it.
  • Responses after the first and second year to “how do you feel and what would you do” differ remarkably.
  • Who would enjoy: fifth grade - adults.
  • There are two pre and post activities that can be done on a preceding day.
  • $25 cost if mailed. $20 if not.
  • We welcome invitations to facilitate in classes or groups.

New and Upcoming with our developing world!

Opportuntites to give Gifts of Giving $25 for one certificate, $45 for 2:

Help rural Cambodian families with the pre-schools and organic gardens they´ve built together. Funding is needed for the teachers for at least 150 children. In a society that´s lost the grandparent generation this is vital. And pre-school is a major step on the road to education lleading to a better life.

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Support Alternatives to Violence (AVP) in South Africa and Botswana. We've seen this program ransform lives and neighborhoods. AVP works in schools, neighborhoods and prisonsturning people around by using their own experiences in anger management and alternative ways of responding.

View and buy odw handcrafts and hear the stories:

  • Los Gatos Methodist Alternative Giving Fair Sunday Dec 5 10-1 pm High School Circle
  • Palo Alto Peace and Social Justice Craft and Info Fair Sunday Dec 12 11-2:30 First Presbyterian Church 1120 Cowper Palo Alto
  • Cuba Organic Garden Reality Tour April 21-30, 2011 Sign up now. Limit 12 flexible people.

www.ourdevelopingworld.org
13004 Paseo Presada
Saratoga, Ca 95070-4125
(408) 379-4431
Email: odw@magiclink.net
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Judging the law

Albie Sachs dedicates his book, The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law:
“The lovely little boy that Vanessa and I brought into the world two years ago has to our delight just used the word ‘why?’ If one day he wants to know why we name him Oliver, why his Daddy has one arm, and why his Daddy is called a Judge, he can find the answers in this book.”

A wonderful mind stretcher that takes you into the author's mind and heart in his process of reaching his decisions on major constitutional court cases with universal themes. 2 copies left, $30 each


•  All year round we sell Fair Trade dark, milk and crunchy milk Divine chocolate bars at $2 each.

•  Check the posters listed by theme and country or region with the K-12 Resources.

•  A 35 page curriculum for middle and high schools “Beyond Blame: Reacting to the Terrorist Attack” $3.00 covers printing and postage. or download a PDF copy -(512k) of the curriculum http://www2.edc.org/beyondblame/beyondblame.pdf.


Simulations involve people, put them in others' shoes, feeling global interdependence:
Starvation or Survival has four settings: Central America, Asia, Latin America, Africa or Women and Development in Africa. This activity is done in groups, each representing a rural subsistence village. Weather is determined by the throw of a die. Local and global impact cards give each village (and sometimes all the villages) one reality at a time. This ranges from crop pests to World Bank and the debt crisis. Malnutrition can lead to disease. The third year the villages have choice cards which are real choices that subsistence farmers have made in poor countries. These ususally lead to positive outcomes. People remember this experience for years.
  • Time needed: 90 minutes can take you through the first and third year.
  • Responses after the first and third year to ″how do you feel and what would you do″ differ remarkably.
  • Who would enjoy: fifth grade – adults.
  • $25 cost.

•  Don't forget we also have a video of Paul Robeson singing ″Ballad For Americans″. $10 donation.