We all enjoy a chocolate.

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• We all enjoy a chocolate.

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Surprise, Surprise!

• Peel back the wrapper and whose image would you
  see?

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By permission of ILRF.
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Facts

• Cote dIvoire is a country in the west of Africa
  which produces more than 35 of the worlds cocoa
  crop.
• In 2001 reports confirmed widespread child labour
  on cocoa farms Cote dIvoire and thousands of
  children being trafficked from nearby Mali and
  Burkina Faso. The conditions these children were
  working in were characterised as dangerous and
  they were forced to work long hours.
• Industry said they would guarantee the end of
  trafficked labour in the cocoa industry by 2005.
  They have failed to do this. They said they would
  cover half the farms in Ghana and Cote dIvoire
  by 2008, but even this did not make sure all
  farms are free from using trafficked children.
• They said it was too difficult.

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More Facts

• STOP THE TRAFFIK is calling for chocolate to be
  Traffik Free.
• STOP THE TRAFFIK is asking industry to sign up to
  our Chocolate Pledge which is already endorsed by
  40 organisations.
• Download this at http//www.stopthetraffik.o
  rg/chocolateDownloads/stt_pledge.pdf
  

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• You dont have to eat this chocolate for it to
  make you feel sick.

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STOP THE TRAFFIK Chocolate Campaign Goals

• The customers need to know who picked the
  cocoa beans that makes their chocolate.
• The retailer needs to know that their
  customers will change what they buy to force the
  chocolate industry to change their practices.
• The chocolate manufacturers need to
• SIGN THE CHOCOLATE PLEDGE
• KEEP THEIR ORIGINAL PROMISES
• GIVE US TRAFFIK FREE CHOCOLATE NOW

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On the very first day, he farmer took our
luggage and locked it away. He ordered us to move
heavy sacks of cocoa. They were so heavy I could
barely lift it. One boy could not lift his
sacks. The owner took a branch off a tree and
started whipping him. He beat him until all his
body was covered in cuts and blood. At that
moment, I know he would beat us, too ...(Sylla,
15 year old boy) We have never tasted chocolate
... our bosses farmers never tasted chocolate
...we work hard to pick the cocoa beans in the
hot suns for 12 hours...no breaks ... if we sit
...we are dead ... Save The Children report 2005
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Surprise people with chocolate.

• We want everyone who buys chocolate to think
  twice about what they choose to buy and where it
  comes from.
• Eat chocolate. Eat lots of Chocolate. Buy
  Chocolate for others. Just buy and eat Fairtrade
• We can all buy Fairtrade and know that our
  chocolate is Traffik Free.

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Drown your town in coupons!Download our
chocolate coupon www.stopthetraffik.org

• Give this to the retailer when you pay for your
  chocolate.
• Carry the coupons around in your wallet, purse or
  bag
• and every time you buy chocolate - give it in.

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Surprise people by telling them the truth about
what is really under the wrapper of their
favourite chocolate bar.Surprised by the awful
truth.Customers change what they
buy.Retailers choose what they
stock.Chocolate manufacturers choose to
eradicate exploitative child labour from their
supply chain now.

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THANK YOU

• www.stopthetraffik.org