Fair Trade

Chocolate Activity Book

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for grades 3-6

 Table of Contents
Week 1 1

Fair Trade
Chocolate Activity Book
Week 2 9

Week 3 17

Week 4 22

Resources 26

Sharing 31
 Dear friend,

We hope you will enjoy this book. We wrote it so that you could learn all
about chocolate, the problems that face cocoa farmers, and how we can 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 mate-
rials 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 youfind the other resources
and look on the internet sites that are listed.
The Fair Trade team at....

Week 1 1
 Do YOU like chocolate? Where do they come from?
What’s your favorite kind? Write its name or draw it here. Cocoa and cocoa buter come from cocoa beans.
Cocoa beans grow on trees, inside pods that are big as footballs!

Do you know what It is too cold to grow cocoa in the United States.
cocoa beans

chocolate is made
of?
Make your best guess! Let’s find out! Where do they grow?
Cocoa grow in rainforests that are warm and wet.
Can you name some places where cocoa might grow?
Let’s Find out!
cocoa milk veggie oil sugar
25% 25% 5% 45%
Chocolate always has cocoa and cocoa
butter.
It usually has sugar and sometimes milk.
cocoa pods might want a scarf to stay
warm here!
This drawing shows how much of these
are in a chocolate bar

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 It grows in countries in Africa Cocoa also grows in countries
in Latin America
Ghana Belize

Ecuador
Cameroon
Nicaragua

Cocoa even grows in some

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Ivory Coast countries in Southeast Asia
(Cot te d’Ivoire)
Indonesia

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 Do you know where these countries
are?
Do you think you could walk to them
them? Let’s find them on a map!

How far are they?

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 car

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.

How does it get here?

Cocoa from africa and Southeast Asia comes to the
United States on BIG boats..

Find Nicaragua, Belize and Ecuador on the map of Latin America.

Find Ghana, cameroon, and The Ivory Coast on the map of Africa.
Find Indonesia on the map of Southeast Asia

When you find each of these places, write their names on the map or color each one different color

6 Week 1 so you will remember where they are.

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 Mmmm Chocolate! How much do they make?
Every time you eat chocolate you are sharing a yummy gift from the hard working cocoa farmers that live Cocoa farmers are poor=because they do not get paid very much for their cocoa.
in these faraway places. Chocoalte brings the world together! They only get 25 cents to 50 cents each pound of cocoa beans they sell!

Circle some coins to make 25 cents

What could
you buy with 25
5 cents cents?
Could you buy lunch? Could you go
10 cents to the doctor? Could you even buy a
10 cents chocolate bar?

10 cents

5 cents
Draw a picture of yourself sharing some chocolate with a cocoa farmer 5 cents
Most cocoa farmers have never eaten chocolate! They are too poor to buy or make chocolate bars. 10 cents
They cannot even pay for things they need, like food and clothes and trips to the doctor.
This is not even enough to pay for the cost of growing cocoa.
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 Says who? Children too?
Farmers do not get paid much for their cocoa beans because they do not have any say in what the price should be. On some farms, these workers are children just like you. They do not get to go to school, or play. They have to work
They just get what the companies want to pay them. very hard on cocoa farms all day because their parents are too poor to afford to send their children to school and
This is why farmers stay poor hire people to work on the farm

How do you feel about that? Some farmers are so poor they do not even have the money to pay their workers. These workers slaves. They are
often children brought from other countries to work far way from from their homes and families. They do very
dangerous work. They get yelled at and are treated badly.

What do you
think?
Do you think that is right? Why or Why not? How do you think they feel?

How would you feel if you were them?

Here is a picture some children who were made to work as slaves on cocoa
famers.These boys were rescued but others are still working as slaves on
cocoa farms

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 What about the environment?
Some farmers have also cut down the rinforest 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.
Many of the people and animals who breathe the dirty air and drink the dirty water get very sick
People can change...
Fortunately, people are trying to fix these problems. Some chocolate compa-
nies in the United States are trying to end child clavery on cocoa farms. They
are also helping farmers grow cocoa in ways that are good for the Earth.
These are very good for companies to do!
...but not completely
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 mone to buy food, clothes, and go to the
doctor.

How does that make you feel?

Do you think farmers should get more money for their cocoa?

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 People do care Sharing is Caring
A lot of people think so. People like this set up something called the “Fair Trade” system. The Fair Trade system Fair Trade also share their money with their communities to build things
gives farmers at least 80 cents for each pound of their cocoa. This gives farmers enough to buy food and like schools and doctor’s offices.
clothes go to the doctor, and send their children to school Hooray!
Draw something that farmers might do with their Fair Trade money.
Circle some coins to make 80 cents
What it does
10 cents The Fair Trade system also makes
5 cents sure that farmers do not use
25 cents slaves or mistreat their workers.
This means that cocoa farmers are
always safe and sound
10 cents 10 cents Children do not have to work on Fair
Trade farms. They can go to school
and play like you Hooray!
10 cents
If older kids want to help out on the
5 cents 25 cents 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 Cocoa How many are in the Fair
Fair Trade Cocoa comes from 9 countries Trade system?
There are over 50,000 farmers in the Fair Trade system
Belize
Draw some farmers here.
Bolivia

Cameroon

Costa Rica

Dominican Republic

Ecuador
Find these places on the map of Latin America and Africa.
When you find these places, write their names on the map or color each
Ghana one a different color so you will remember where they are
How many did you draw?
Nicaragua

Peru You can read stories about some of these farmer groups on the Internet. See the
back of the book for a list of good web sites.

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 How can you tell?
Fair Trade chocolate has special labels that tell you that the farmers were paid a fair price
How many sell them?
Fair Trade is sold by only a few small companies in the United States. Big companies do
not sell Fair Trade chocolate. Cocoa farmers do not get a fair price for most of the
chocolate we eat. Cocoa farmers only get 1 penny for every chocolate bar, that is not
Fair Trade!

Can something be done?

Have you ever eaten Fair Trade chocolate? What did it taste like? What do you think you can do to get big companies to sell Fair Trade chocolate?

Do you think Fair Trade is a good idea? Why?

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 What can you do? Here is a sample letter
You can write to your favorite chocolate company. Edmond Opler, Chairman and CEO, World’s Finest Chocolate
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 Dear Mr. Opler,
Trade so that these problems will not happen anymore! I am sad that cocoa farmers do not get paid enough to buy food or go to the doctor. I am
also sad that many children work on cocoa farms instead of going to school or being able
Tell your friends and family to write letters, too! If we all ask companies to sell Fair Trade, they will know how impor- to play like me. I am the most sad that some even use child slaves. Please sell Fair Trade
tant it is and they will do it! chocolate so that these problems will not happen anymore! Please write back to let me
know when you will start to sell Fair Trade Chocolate. Thank you!

What happens next? Your friend,

Do you know where to send your letter? To find out, look at the wrapper of a chocolate bar
Here is the address for:
To continue your efforts
World’s Finest Chocolate:
Edmond Opler, Here is how you can contact
Chairman and CEO They have a Fair Trade chocolate campaign and
Global Exchange: they can help you out!
World’sfinest Chocolate
Email: fairtrade@globalexchange.org
4801 S. Lawndale They would also love to hear about your letter to
the chocoalte company!
Chicago, IL 60632-3062 Web: www.globalexchange.org/cocoa
You can also find a list of other helpful groups
and web sites on the back on this book

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 After your letter Extras
After tou write to the chocolate company, you can do more things to help cocoa farmers. You can find fairly traded clothing, hand-crafts, musical instruments, and other cool things from Fair Trade Stores.

1.Share this book with friends & family. Ask them to buy Fair Trade chocolate & cocoa all the time. Ask them to write Fair Trade Federation
to chocolate companies, too!
www.fairtradefederation.org
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 Global Exchange Fair Trade Stores
has a packet to help you at www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/cocoa/FTFundraisingGuide.pdf. www.globalexchangestore.org

3.Ask your local stores to sell Fair Trade chocolate & cocoa. You can get a list of companies from Global Exchange.
Fair Trade Certified

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.

5.Support other Fair Trade! Fair Trade Federation

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

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 Thank you!
Thanks for helping bring Fair Trade to more farmers like us and our families

Mariano Manuel
Nicaragua. Dominican Republic

Ovida Asamoah & Lydia

Domican Republic Ghana

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 Resources
Groups that promote Fair Trade in the United States
Global Exchange Equal Exchange
2017 Mission St., #303 251 Revere Street
San Francisco, CA 94110 Canton, MA 02021
415-575-5538 781-830-0303
fairtrade@globalexchange.org info@equalexchange.com
www.globalexchange.org/cocoa www.equalexchange.com
TransFair USA Fair Trade Federation
1611 Telegraph Ave 1612 K St., #600
Oakland, CA 94612 Washington, DC 20006
510.663.5260 202-872-5329
info@transfairusa.org ftf@fairtradefederation.org
www.transfairusa.org www.fairtradefederation.org
Coop America Fair Trade Resource Network
1612 K St., #600 PO Box 33772
Washington, DC 20006 Washington, DC 20033
202.872.5343 202-302-0976
info@coopamerica.org info@fairtraderesource.org
www.coopamerica.org www.fairtraderesource.org
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Oxfam America
26 West Street
International Labor Rights Fund
2001 S Street, NW Ste. 420
Boston, MA 02111 Washington, DC 20009
617-482-1211 202-347-4100
email@oxfamamerica.org laborrights@ilrf.org
www.oxfamamerica.org www.laborrights.org
Save the Children Canada Groups promoting earth-friendly farming
4141 Yonge Street, Suite 300
Toronto, Ontario M2P 2A8 Organic Consumers Association
416.221.5501 or 1.800.668.5036
1.800.668.5036 6771 6771 South Silver Hill Drive
sccan@savethechildren.ca Finland, MN 55603
218-226-4164
Groups that are working to end child labor www.organicconsumers.org
Child Labor Coalition Resources for parents and teachers
1701 K St. NW, Ste. 120
Washington, DC 20006 History and Manufacturing of Cocoa and Chocolate
202.835.3323
childlabor@nclnet.org Chicagofield Museum of Natural History Chocalate
www.stopchildlabor.org Exhibit
Museum online exhibit on chocolate
Free the Slaves www.fielmuseum.org/chocolate
1012 14th St., NW Ste. 600
Washington, DC 20005 Exploratorium Chocolate Exhibit
202.638-1865 Children’s
202.638-1865 Children’s museum online exhibit on chocolate
info@freetheslaves.net www.exploratorium.edu/chocolate/
www.freetheslaves.net
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 International Cocoa Organization
Questions and answers about all aspects of cocoa and chocolate
www.icco.org

Jubilee Chocolates
This Certificate is Presented to
Lots of fun facts about chocolate and a special page to post questions you have.
www.jubileechocolates.com

General information on Fair Trade

Global Exchange Fair Trade Program

Information on all aspects of Fair Trade, including links to lists of other groups and materials in the US and
around the world.
www.globalexchange.org, click on “Fair Trade” Thanks for helping spread the word about Fair Trade and getting more
companies to sell Fair Trade chocolate and cocoa.
Fair Trade Federation
List of Fair Trade groups and materials in the United States and around the world. You can find fairly traded You are making a real difference in the lives of more than 50,000 cocoa
clothing, handcrafts, musical instruments, and other cool things from stores and companies that are in the
farmers and their families across the world.
Fair Trade Federation!
www.fairtradefederation.com
Keep up the good work!!
Oxfam International
Oxfam has educational materials about world trade and Fair Trade that you can download for free and order
from their web sites. Global Exchange Fair Trade Team
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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This book was written by Photo and Map Credits:

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Designed/illustrated by PAGE 24, (clockwise from top left)

Everett Swain. Melissa A Schweisguth/Global Exchange,
Fair Trade Foundation UK, Chokky Nikkies, Fairtrade Foundation
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fairtrade@globalexchange.org
www.globalexchange.org/cocoa
2017 Mission St, #303
San Francisco, CA 94110
415-575-5538

Global Exchange is an international human rights organization dedicated to promoting environmental, political and social justice.
Since our founding in 1988, we have increased the US public’s global awareness while building partnerships among peoples around the
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