Chaga and the Chocolate Factory © Bob Hartman - based on a true story

POLICE

This isn’t the end of the story. In cocoa farms all over the Ivory Coast, there are as many as 15,000 children just like Chaga who still work as slaves. The big chocolate companies have known about this for years and six years ago, agreed to do something to stop it. But even after all that time, they still can’t tell us for sure if the chocolate they sell was made by regular workers or by slave children like Chaga. Nearly half, about 45%, of chocolate is made from cocoa beans from the Ivory Coast. What can we do about it?

Over 1,500 Fairtrade products!

Fairtrade is available in many shops

Tell the shops that you want a Fairtrade Egg and why. Make sure all your chocolate is Fairtrade. This Easter ask for a Fairtrade Egg.

This Lent 2008 there is a “Just Chocolate” Campaign, run by Churches Together in Stevenage. We want every student and every Christian in Stevenage and surrounding areas to know that buying chocolate enslaves children and that there is a Fairtrade alternative. We want to motivate people to pray only buy Fairtrade chocolate, at least during Lent and Easter make their views known to neighbours, family, colleagues, politicians, shops, and chocolate manufacturers.

Children can go to and become a dubble agent, joining with other children to campaign against slavery in chocolate production