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could learn all about chocolate, the problems that face cocoa
farmers, and how we can all help. Please feel free to copy this
them what you have learned from this book, and ask them to
sell Fair Trade. There are materials at the back of the book to
the end of the book. Your teacher and parents can help you
find the other resources and look on the internet sites that are
Sugar
26%
Cocoa
Butter
Do you know what chocolate is made of? Make your
45%
best guess!
Milk
24%
5%
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Cameroon Ecuador
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like Indonesia
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Africa and Southeast Asia are all the way across Every time you eat chocolate, you are sharing a
the ocean. You would have to take a long ride yummy gift from hard working cocoa farmers that
on a plane or boat to get there. live in these faraway places. Chocolate brings the
world together!
Cocoa from Africa and Southeast Asia comes to the United States on big boats.
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Most cocoa farmers have never even eaten What could you buy with 25¢?
chocolate! They are too poor to buy or make
chocolate bars. They cannot even pay for things they Could you buy lunch?
need, like food and clothes and trips to the doctor.
Could you go to the doctor?
Cocoa farmers are poor because they do not get paid
very much for their cocoa. Could you even buy a chocolate bar?
Cocoa farmers get 25¢ to 50¢ for each pound of This is not even enough to pay for the cost of growing
cocoa beans they sell. Circle some coins to make 25¢. cocoa. Farmers do not get paid much for their cocoa
beans because they do not have any say in what the
price should be. They just get what companies want
to pay them.This is why farmers stay poor.
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On some farms, these workers are children, just like Here is a picture of some children who were made to
you. They do not get to go to school, or play. They work as slaves on cocoa farms.
have to work very hard on cocoa farms all day
because their parents are too poor to afford to send
their children to school and hire people to work on These boys were rescued but others are still working as slaves on cocoa farms.
the farm.
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Some farmers have also cut down the rainforest to They are also helping farmers grow cocoa in ways
grow more cocoa to sell. This has taken homes from that are good for the earth.These are very good
birds and other animals that need the rainforest. things for companies to do!
Some of these farmers also use chemicals to keep But, these companies still have not agreed to pay
away bugs and diseases. These chemicals make the farmers enough for their cocoa.
water and air dirty.
Many of the people and animals who breathe the This means that many children will still have to work
dirty air and drink the dirty water get very sick. hard so their families will have enough money to buy
Fortunately, people are trying to fix these problems. food and clothes and go to the doctor.
Some chocolate companies in the United States are How does this make you feel?
trying to end child slavery on cocoa farms.
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Do you think farmers should get more money for The Fair Trade system also makes sure that farmers
their cocoa? do not use slaves or mistreat their workers. This means
that cocoa farmers are always safe and sound.
A lot of people think so. People like this set up Children do not have to work on Fair Trade farms.
something called the “Fair Trade” system. The Fair They can go to school and play like you.
Trade system gives farmers at least 80¢ for each
pound of their cocoa.
HOORAY!
This gives farmers enough to buy food and clothes,
go to the doctor, and send their children to school.
Hooray! Circle some coins to make 80¢.
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Fair Trade farmers work together and help each other. Draw something that farmers might do with their Fair
Trade money.
Fair Trade farmers also share their money with their communities to build
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Dominican
Fair Trade cocoa comes from 9 countries:
Republic
Belize Ecuador
Bolivia Ghana
Cameroon Nicaragua
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Find these places on the maps of Latin America and Draw some farmers here.
Africa. (page 8 and 9)
There are a lot of farmers in the Fair Trade system - How many did you draw?
over 50,000!
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Fair Trade chocolate has special labels that tell you Have you ever eaten Fair Trade chocolate? What did
that the farmers were paid a fair price. it taste like?
Certified
Fair Trade sell Fair Trade chocolate. Cocoa farmers do not get a
fair price for most of the chocolate we eat.
Federation
Cocoa farmers get only 1 penny for every chocolate
bar that is not Fair Trade!
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What do you think you can do to get big companies Tell your friends and family to write letters, too! If we
to sell Fair Trade chocolate? all ask companies to sell Fair Trade, they will know
how important it is and they will do it! Do you know
where to send your letter?
YOU CAN WRITE TO YOUR To find out, look at the wrapper of a chocolate bar.
FAVORITE CHOCOLATE
Here is the address for World’s Finest
COMPANY! Chocolate:
Tell them that you are sad that cocoa farmers do
not get paid enough and that some even use child
Edmond Opler,
slaves. Tell them you are sad that many children
Chairman and CEO
work on cocoa farms instead of going to school.
World’s Finest Chocolate
4801 S. Lawndale
Ask them to start selling Fair Trade so that these prob-
Chicago, IL 60632-3062
lems will not happen anymore!
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back to let me know when you will start to sell Fair Trade
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1. Share this book with friends & family. Ask them to 4. Learn more about Fair Trade farmers and the
buy Fair Trade chocolate & cocoa all the time. Ask places they live. See our web site for farmer stories
them to write to chocolate companies, too! at http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/
fairtradhhcocoacooperatives.html. Also check out
the resources in the back of this book to get started.
2. If your school or club sells chocolate for a
fundraiser, ask the chocolate company to sell
Fair Trade. If the chocolate company won’t sell
Fair Trade, get your school or club to switch to a
company that does. Global Exchange has a 5. Support other Fair Trade!
packet to help you at www.globalexchange.
org/campaigns/ fairtrade/cocoa/FTFund
raisingGuide.pdf.
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Fair Trade
Federation
Fair Trade Federation
www.fairtradefederation.org
Global Exchange Fair Trade Stores
www.globalexchangestore.org
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Mariano,
Nicaragua
Asamoah & Lydia,
Ghana
Ovida,
Dominican Republic
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Global Exchange Fair Trade Federation Child Labor Coalition Organic Consumers Association
2017 Mission St., #303 1612 K St., #600, Washington, DC 20006 1701 K St. NW, Ste. 120 6771 South Silver Hill Drive
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fairtrade@globalexchange.org www.fairtradefederation.org childlabor@nclnet.org www.organicconsumers.org
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Fair Trade Resource Network
TransFair USA PO Box 33772, Washington, DC 20033 Free the Slaves
1611 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 202.302.0976 1012 14th St., NW Ste. 600
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510.663.5260 www.fairtraderesource.org 202.638-1865
info@transfairusa.org info@freetheslaves.net
www.transfairusa.org Oxfam America www.freetheslaves.net
26 West Street, Boston, MA 02111
Coop America 617-482-1211 International Labor Rights Fund
1612 K St., #600, Washington, DC 20006 email@oxfamamerica.org 2001 S Street, NW Ste. 420
202.872.5343 www.oxfamamerica.org Washington, DC 20009
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781.830.0303 sccan@savethechildren.ca
info@equalexchange.
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