“Shining the spotlight on

global issues”Kirsty 1

Chocolate

• Most people like chocolate.

• Each of us eats around 2 kg each year.

• Around the world we buy 1 billion kg each year.

Katie 2

Cocoa Production

• Working for a chocolate company would seem a good idea.

• If you were a farmer in a tropical country, farming cocoa beans would appear to be a safe option.

Emma 3

Emma 4

Yacouba’s Story

• He worked on a cocoa plant for 3p a day at the age of 14.

• He was smuggled by a child-trafficker .

• He was regularly beaten when he did not work enough.

• He died three years later from a blood clot.

Douglas 5

Too familiar…

• Yacouba’s story is not the only one of its kind.

• Stories like this are only too common throughout the cocoa industry.

Jane 6

Who makes the money?

• Non fair-trade companies (such as Galaxy, Mars and Nestle) have thousands of consumers, they must have thousands of workers.

• But if the cocoa farmers don’t get the money from a chocolate bar, then who does?

Steph 7

Steph 8

“for example from a price of one chocolate bar…”

CJ 9

43% of the bar goes to Galaxy.

Hannah 10

22% goes to the people selling it

Iain 11

15% goes to Tax

Douglas 12

13% goes to the producers of the other ingredients

Kirsty 13

Only 7% goes to the Cocoa Farmers

Right to health My family has money to pay for a doctor now in case any of us gets sick. That is thanks to people buying fair trade chocolate. Right to education We can go to school because my family gets enough money from fair trade. 

CJ 14

Right to freedom from child labour and slavery I am lucky that I can stay with my family. My family works in Fair Trade and earns enough money. There are lots of children who aren’t so lucky: they have to work in foreign countries and are often treated like slaves. I am very lucky indeed. 

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Jane 15

Right to water, food I don’t have to walk so far for fresh water now because we have a water pump in our village. Fair Trade helped to pay for it.

Iain 16

Hannah 17

Recently Cadbury became a Fair Trade Chocolate Company. If a Company like Cadbury can do it why can’t other chocolate companies become Fair Trade as well?

Hannah18

Here is Cadbury’s latest advert which show they have become a Fair Trade Company.

CJ 19

Millennium Development Goals

Katie 20

End Poverty and Hunger

Emma 21

Education

Kirsty 22

Gender Equality

Jane 23

Maternal Health

Douglas 24

Combat HIV/AIDS

Hannah 25

Environmental Sustainability

Steph 26

Global Partnership

Katie 27

Child Health

Kirsty 28

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“If you want to know more about J8, we meet every Thursday at 1pm in B29. So came and join us!

If you do join us you have the chance to enter the World-wide J8 Competition.

We are now going to play a video clip about the J8 Competition.

Thank you for listening!”