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WHAT WOULD YOU DO FOR YOUR SWEET TOOTH?

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Where does your Chocolate come from?

Approximately 69% of all cocoa produced in the world comes from West Africa!

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When you take a bite of

chocolate, its like……..

Can you finish his sentence?

Do you know where your chocolate comes from?

SLAVERY: A relationship in which one person has absolute power over another and controls their life, liberty, and fortune.

MY GLOBAL IMPACT

Cacao Beans: Chocolate

Ivory Coast/Ghana in West Africa

Look at the foods, clothing, and products that are in your family’s house. Draw stars to show their location. Create arrows and boxes to describe the product and their locations. Identify and describe at least FIVE products.

What you buy and consume can have global impacts!

Child Labor around the World246 million children world wide are child laborers .

73 million working children are less than 10 years old.

Every year, 22,000 children die in work related accidents.

An estimated 1.2 million children — both boys and girls — are moved each year away from their families and put into dangerous and harmful conditions.

The highest proportion of child laborers is in sub-Saharan Africa, where 26 percent of children (49 million) are involved in dangerous and hazardous work.

So, what can YOU do with this knowledge?http://www.slaveryfootprint.org