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Week 1
Dear friend, Do YOU like chocolate?
We hope you will enjoy this book. We wrote it so that you could learn all What’s your favorite kind?
about chocolate, the problems that face cocoa farmers, and how we can here.
Write its name or draw it here
all help. Please feel free to copy this book for your friends and family!
We hope that you will write to chocolate companies to tell 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 help you do this!
If you want to learn more, please see the resources section at the end of
the book. Your teacher and parents can help you find the other resources
and look on the internet sites that are listed. The Fair Trade team at....
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Chocolate always has cocoa and cocoa butter. It usually has sugar and sometimes It grows in countries in Africa
milk, too.
This drawing shows how much of these are in a chocolate bar:
5% vegetable Ghana
45% sugar
oil
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Cocoa also grows in countries Cocoa even grows in some countries
in Latin America in Southeast Asia
Belize
Ecuador
Nicaragua Indonseia
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Do you know where these countries are? Do you think you could walk to them? Find Ghana and Cameroon and the Ivory Coast on the map of Africa
Let’s find them on a map!
Find Indonesia on the map of Southeast Asia.
You could walk to Latin America but it would take a really really long time!
You would probably want to take a plane or a boat or a car. When you find each of these places, write their names on the map so you will
remember where they are.
Find Nicaragua, Belize and Ecuador on the map of Latin America.
Every time you eat chocolate, you are sharing a yummy gift from hard working
cocoa farmers that live in these faraway places.
When you find each of these places, write their names on the
map so you will remember where they are.
Africa and Southeast Asia are all the way across the ocean. You would have to
take a long ride on a plane or boat to get there. Cocoa from Africa and Southeast
Asia comes to the United States on big boats.
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Week 2 What could you buy with 25¢? Could you buy lunch? Could you go to the doctor?
Could you even buy a chocolate bar?
Circle some coins to make 25¢ This is why farmers stay poor.
How do you feel about that?
Do you think that is right?
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Here is a picture of some children who were made to work as slaves on cocoa farms. How do you think they
On some farms, these workers are children, just like you. They do not get to go to feel? How would you feel if you were them?
school, or play. They 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 the farm.
Some farmers are so poor they do not even have the money to pay their workers.
These workers are slaves.
These boys were rescued but others are still working as slaves on cocoa farms.
Some farmers have also cut down the rainforest to grow more cocoa to sell. This
has taken homes from birds and other animals that need the rainforest. Some of
these farmers also use chemicals to keep away bugs and diseases. These chemicals
make the water and air dirty.
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Many of the people and animals who breathe the dirty air and drink the dirtywater A lot of people think so. People like this set up something called the “Fair Trade” system.
get very sick. Fortunately, people are trying to fix these problems. The Fair Trade system gives farmers at least 80¢ for each pound of their cocoa.
This gives farmers enough to buy food and clothes, go to the doctor, and send their
Some chocolate companies in the United States are trying to end child slavery on children to school. Hooray!
cocoa farms. They are also helping farmers grow cocoa in w says that are good for
the earth. These are very good things for companies to do! Circle some coins to make 80¢.
But, these companies still have not agreed to pay farmers enough for their cocoa.
This means that many children will still have to work hard so their families will
have enough money to buy food and clothes and go to the doctor.
The Fair Trade system also makes sure that farmers do not use slaves or mistreat
heir workers. This means that cocoa farmers are always safe and sound.
Children do not have to work on Fair Trade farms. They can go to school and play
like you. Hooray! If older kids want to help out on the farm when they come home
from school, that is ok. But, they cannot be made to work all day instead of going
to school.
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Fair Trade farmers work together and help each other. The farmers use some of Fair Trade cocoa comes from 9 countries:
their money to go to school to learn how to grow cocoa in a way that is good for
the earth and make their cocoa taste the best it can be.
Fair Trade farmers also share their money with their communities to build things like Belize Bolivia Cameroon
schools and doctor’s offices.
Draw something that farmers might do with their Fair Trade money:
When you find each of these places, write their names on the map so you will
remember where they are.
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Week 3 Fair Trade chocolate has special labels that tell you that the farmers were paid a
fair price.
There are a lot of farmers in the Fair Trade system - over 50,000!
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Fair Trade chocolate is sold by only a few small companies in the United States. Big Tell your friends and family to write letters, too! If we all ask companies to sell Fair
companies do not sell Fair Trade chocolate. Cocoa farmers do not get a fair price Trade, they will know how important it is and they will do it!
for most of the chocolate we eat.
Do you know where to send your letter?
Cocoa farmers get only 1 penny for every chocolate bar that is not Fair Trade!
What do you think you can do to get big companies to sell Fair Trade chocolate? To find out, look at the wrapper of a chocolate bar.
Edmond Opler,
Chairman and CEO
World’s Finest Chocolate
You can write to your favorite chocolate company!
4801 S. Lawndale
Chicago, IL 60632-3062
Tell them that you are sad that cocoa farmers do not get paid enough and that
some even use child slaves. Tell them you are sad that many children work on
cocoa farms instead of going to school. Ask them to start selling Fair Trade so that
these problems will not happen anymore!
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Here is a sample letter: Here is how you can contactGlobal Exchange:
Email: fairtrade@globalexchange.org
Web: www.globalexchange.org/cocoa
Edmond Opler, Chairman and CEO, They have a Fair Trade chocolate campaign and they can help you out! They would
World’s Finest Chocolate also love to hear about your letter to the chocolate company! You also can find a
4801 S. Lawndale; Chicago, IL 60632-3062 list of other helpful groups and web sites in the back of this book.
Your friend,
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Week 4 1.Share this book with friends & family. Ask them to buy Fair Trade chocolate &
cocoa all the time. Ask them to write to chocolate companies, too!
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 packet to help
you at:
www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/ fairtrade/cocoa/FTFundraisingGuide.pdf.
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sk your local stores to sell Fair Trade chocolate & cocoa. You can get a list of
companies from Global Exchange.
4.Learn more about Fair Trade farmers and the places they live. See our web site
for farmer stories at
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/ fairtrade/cocoa/cocoacooperatives.html
Also check out the resources in the back of this book to get started.
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Week 5 • Look for Fair Trade bananas and fruits! If your parents like coffee and tea, they
can get Fair Trade in the store! See Global Exchange’s web site for company and
store listings.
• You can find fairly traded clothing, hand-crafts, musical instruments, and other
cool things from Fair Trade Stores
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Week 6
Thanks for helping bring
Fair Trade to more farmers
like us and our families!
Mariano, Nicaragua Ovida, Dominican Republic Manuel, Dominican Republic Asamoah & Lydia, Ghana
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Resources Fair Trade Federation
1612 K St., #600, Washington, DC 20006
202-872-5329
ftf@fairtradefederation.org
Groups that promote Fair Trade in the United States www.fairtradefederation.org
Equal Exchange
251 Revere Street, Canton, MA 02021
781.830.0303
info@equalexchange.com
www.equalexchange.com
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Groups that are working to end child labor Groups promoting earth-friendly farming
Child Labor Coalition Organic Consumers Association
1701 K St. NW, Ste. 120 6771 South Silver Hill Drive
Washington, DC 20006 Finland, MN 55603
202.835.3323 218.226.4164
childlabor@nclnet.org www.organicconsumers.org
www.stopchildlabor.org
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Jubilee Chocolates
Lots of fun facts about chocolate and a special This certificate is presented to
page to post questions you have.
www.jubileechocolates.com
Fair Trade Federation Thanks for helping spread the word about Fair
List of Fair Trade groups and materials in the
United States and around the world. You can Trade and getting more companies to sell Fair
find fairly traded clothing, handcrafts, musical
instruments, and other cool things from
Trade chocolate and cocoa. You are making a real
stores and companies that are in the Fair difference in the lives of more than 50,000 cocoa
Trade Federation!
www.fairtradefederation.com
farmers and their families across the world. Keep
up the good work!!
Oxfam International
Oxfam has educational materials about world
trade and Fair Trade that you can download
Global Exchange Fair Trade Team
for free and order from their web sites.
www.oxfam.org
www.oxfam.ca 2017 Mission Street, #303 • San Francisco, CA 94110 • tel 415.255.7296 • fax 415.255.7498
•fairtrade@globalexchange.org • www.globalexchange.org/cocoa
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