Chocolate: the bitter truth Hello my name is Jock Breckenridge, in my solo talk I am going to talk to you about how chocolate bar companies use child labour to produce their coco beans and then the company makes the chocolate bars. All over the world people eat chocolate bars and hardly anyone actually knows who is actually producing the recourses to make them,

Fair-trade The international certification body fair-trade labelling organisation international (ICBFLOI) first started the fair-trade logo The group was set up in Netherlands in the 1980s Set up to make people in the developing countries get paid better and have a better living The fair-trade mark is a registered certification label for products sourced from producers in developing countries

Fair-trade /standards Rules Ensure a minimum price for the producer Provide an extra investment for development Offer money to the producers to invest Also to encourage partnership Ensure conditions are socially and economically fair Make sure that the people who produce the coco beans get enough money. Make sure that the coco bean farmers and children get extra money to maybe save up for something to help bring in the supplies. Offer the farmers money to save up. Get them to trade with each other often. Make sure that the conditions for working in are suitable like clean water and good home and good hygiene

good chocolates Green and Blacks-Maya gold Divine chocolate-nearly all of their range of chocolates Oxfam –chocolate mints Thorntons-easter eggs and organic fair-trade range Asda-fair-trade Cadbury-fair-trade milk chocolate Starbucks-dark chocolate and milk chocolate range Morrisons also do a fair trade supply of chocolate and other shops but only the ones with the far-trade logo on it and there are loads of other companies that supply fair-trade chocolate.

Bad chocolates Mars bar galaxy Kit Kat is also a bad Company which uses child labour to get their coco beans but now they have been persuaded by the fair-trade society to make their Kit Kat four finger bar with fair trade chocolate

child labour There are loads of different countries that use child labour. A lot of the children are trafficked. There are a lot of children trafficked to do child labour. Cote d’ivoire in the west of Africa has a lot of coco farms. A lot of the chocolate comes from the Ivory coast. The children work in dangerous and hazardous conditions. All of the countries that use child labour to supply the coco beans are Cote D’ivoire, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory coast. The word trafficked means being taken away from their homes also from their mum and dad there some of the children in these countries haven't seen their mum and dad in several years the children have usually been taken away by the owners of the coco bean farms they use the children partly because they don’t pay the children for working. There is currently 200,000 thousand children get trafficked to do child labour Cote D’ivoire has got an estimate of 600,000 coco farms 43% of all coco beans come from Ivory Coast. All the children who work as slaves get no education no proper health supply's and they are working with sharp machetes to split the coco bean plant.

Are you eating child slavery? The children climb up the coco bean trees. The children use tools to slice up the coco bean tree. Then they take them back to the owner of the farm. Then the buyers come. Big ships come to pick up the coco beans. The coco beans then get produced. The children climb up the trees in the coco bean orchards in hot weather and the trees are very tall in bear feet Then the children use sharp machetes to cut open the coco bean plant to get to the coco beans Then they take the coco beans back to the owner of the farm who will then spread them out and leave the beans to dry out in the sun. Then the buyers come to buy the coco beans and sell them on to the big chocolate companies all over the world The big ships come and they take the coco beans and then ship them all over the world to all the big chocolate companies. Then the coco beans get produced into chocolate bars.

What's in it for them? What can you do to help? Go to your local shop or your supermarket! Buy more Tell your friends Tell the companies go to shop and tell them to supply fair-trade Buy more fair trade chocolate Tell friends and family to get more chocolate Tell the companies that you wont be buying from them any more