We grow cocoa for chocolate

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We grow cocoa for chocolate
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Does chocolate grow on trees?
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Yes! It begins with a tree

• Chocolate comes from the inside of a cocoa
  bean.

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Cocoa beans grow inside pods on cocoa trees
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From cocoa beans to your place

• The story of chocolate is a story like many other
  foods.
• It takes many different people doing different
  jobs.

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Here is a cocoa tree nursery in Papua New
Guinea. Shhhhhh baby chocolate trees are
growing!
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The baby cocoa trees need looking after. What do
they need?
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Fiona is by a net which stops coconuts from
falling on the young cocoa trees.
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Cocoa pods

• After a few years the trees grow big cocoa
  bean pods. These are nearly ripe for picking.

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• When the bean pods get picked they will go to
  the fermentary.
• The beans are covered in a sticky white goo.
• They need to ferment for about a week until the
  beans are no longer bitter.

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The beans go on a boat trip

• After the wet beans are dried they get put into
  bags. The cocoa beans then go on a boat and
  travel to the mainland about 700km away.

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• Planting and growing cocoa was a lot of work. The
  farmer has a family to look after.

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How much is a bag of beans?

• The farmer will get paid NZ300 for a 100kg bag
  of beans.
• Its important he gets paid a fair price.

Why is that?
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• The bags of cocoa get sent across the sea. They
  end up at a chocolate factory.

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There are chocolate factories in PNG.

• Do we make chocolate in New Zealand?
• Who do the NZ chocolate factories buy their
  cocoa from?

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Fair pay, fair price
Next time you buy cocoa or chocolate, check out
the label. Where did it come from? Did the
farmers get paid a fair price?
What can you find out about fair trade chocolate?
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Would you like to help Jerolyn?
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The families on Kapo Island need another 35,000
cocoa seedlings.
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The families on Kapo Island need a strong boat
to take their cocoa beans to the city. A canoe
wont do!
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Can you raise some money to help?

• Any ideas?

We would love to be able to help them. But we
need you to help us.
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Acknowledgements

• Thanks to the families on Kapo Island,
• Papua New Guinea for allowing us to spend
• time with them so we could tell this story.
• Thank you to Fr Edward Mali, Diocese of Kimbe
  Matthias Ire, Caritas Papua New Guinea Diocese
  of Kimbe.
• Photos by Fr Philip Gibbs
• Visit September 2012.

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