Fair Trade Chocolate

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Fair Trade Chocolate Activity Book (for grades 3-6)

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Fair Trade Chocolate Activity Book

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Dear friend, We hope you will enjoy this book. We wrote it so that you could learn all about chocolate, the problems that face cocoa farmers, and how we can all help. Please feel free to copy this book for your friends and family!

We hope that you will write to chocolate companies to tell them what you have learned from this book, and ask them to sell Fair Trade. There are materials at the back of the book to help you do this!

If you want to learn more, please see the resources section at the end of the book. Your teacher and parents can help you find the other resources and look on the internet sites that are listed.

The Fair Trade team at building people-to-people ties

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Week 1 Do YOU like chocolate? ________________________________

Draw it here

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What’s your favorite kind? __________________________________

Week 1 Do you know what chocolate is made of?

Make your best guess!

Let’s find out! ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________

Chocolate always has cocoa and cocoa butter. It usually has sugar and sometimes milk, too. Cocoa and cocoa butter come from cocoa beans.

25% cocoa and cocoa butter

25% milk

This drawing shows how much of these are in a chocolate bar

5% veggie oil

45% sugar

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Week 1 Cocoa beans grow on trees, inside pods that are as big as footballs!

Cocoa grows in rainforests that are warm and wet. It is too cold to grow cocoa in the United States Cocoa pods might want a scarf to stay warm here!.

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Can you name some places where cocoa might grow? __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________

Week 2 It grows in countries in Africa

C么te d'Ivoire Ghana Cameroon

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Week 2 Cocoa also grows in countries in Latin America Belize Nicaragua

Ecuador

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Week 2 Cocoa even grows in some countries in South-east Asia

Indonesia

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Week 2

Do you know where these countries are? ___________________________________ Do you think you could walk to them? ______________________________________

You could walk to Latin America but it would take a really really long time! You would probably want to take a plane or a Find Nicaragua, Belize and Ecuador on the boat or a car. map of Latin America.

When you find each of these places, write their names on the map or color each one a different color so you will remember where they are.

Belize Nicaragua

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Week 2

Africa and Southeast Asia are all the way across the ocean.You would have to take a long ride on a plane or boat to get there.

Cocoa from Africa and Southeast Asia comes to the UnitedStates on big boats.

Find Ghana and Cameroon and the Ivory Coast on the map of Africa When you find each of these places, write their names on the map or color each one a different color so you will remember where they are.

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Week 2 Find Indonesia on the map of South-east Asia.

When you find each of these places, write their names on the map or color each one a different color so you will remember where they are.

South-east Asia

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Week 2 Every time you eat chocolate, you are sharing a yummy gift from hard working cocoa farmers that live in these faraway places.

Chocolate brings the world together!

Draw a picture of yourself sharing some chocolate with a cocoa farmer.

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Week 3 Most cocoa farmers have never even eaten chocolate!

They cannot even pay for things they need, like food, clothes, and trips to the doctor.

Cocoa farmers are poor because they do not get paid very much for their cocoa. Circle some coins to make 25¢.

They are too poor to buy or make chocolate bars.

Cocoa farmers get 25¢ to 50¢ for each pound of cocoa beans they sell.

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Could you even buy a chocolate bar? ______________________________________ ______________________________________

Week 3 Farmers do not get paid much for their cocoa beans because they do not have any say in what the price should be. They just get what companies want to pay them..

Do you think that is right? ____________________________________ What could you buy with 25¢? ____________________________________ ____________________________________ Could you buy lunch? __________________________________ ___________________________________ Could you go to the doctor? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ This is why farmers stay poor. How do you feel about that? __________________________________

This is not even enough to pay for the cost of growing cocoa.

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Week 3 On some farms, these workers are children, just like you.

They have to work very hard on cocoa farms ALL DAY. They do very DANGEROUS work.

Their parents are too poor to afford to send their children to school and hire They are often children, brought from other people to work countries to work far away from their homes on the farm Some and families. farmers are so poor

they do not even have the money to pay their workers.

They get yelled at and are treated badly. They do not get to go to school, or play.

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Week 3 These workers are SLAVES.

Here is a picture of some children who were made to work as slaves on cocoa farms. These boys were rescued but others are still working as slaves on cocoa farms.

How do you think they feel? How would you feel if you were them? __________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ 17

Week 4

Some farmers have also cut down the rainforest to grow more cocoa to sell.This means that many children will still have to work hard so their families will have enough money to buy food and clothes and go to the doctor.

A lot of people think so.

How does this make you feel? _________________________________ Do you think farmers should get more money for their cocoa? _________________________________

Some of these farmers also use chemicals to keep away bugs and diseases. These chemicals make the water and air dirty.

Many of the people and animals who breathe the dirty air and drink the dirtywater get very sick.

This has taken homes from birds and other animals that need the rainforest.

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Week 4

Fortunately, people are trying to fix these problems.

Some chocolate companies in the United States are trying to end child slavery on cocoa farms. They are also helping farmers grow cocoa in ways that are good for the earth.

These are very good things for companies to do!

But, these companies still have not agreed to pay farmers enough for their cocoa.

People like this set up something called the “Fair Trade� system.

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Week 4 The Fair Trade system gives farmers at least 80¢ for each pound of their cocoa. This gives farmers enough to buy food and clothes, go to the doctor, and send their children to school.

Hooray!

Circle some coins to make 80¢.

The Fair Trade system also makes sure that farmers do not use slaves or mistreat their workers. This means that cocoa farmers are always safe and sound.

Children do not have to work on Fair Trade farms. They can go to school and play like you. Hooray!

If older kids want to help out on the farm when they come home from school, that is ok. However, they cannot be made to work all day instead of going to school.

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Week 4 Fair Trade farmers work together and help each other.

Draw something that farmers might do with their Fair Trade money.

Fair Trade farmers also share their money with their communities to build things like schools and doctor’s offices.

The farmers use some of their money to go to school to learn how to grow cocoa in a way that is good for the earth and make their cocoa taste the best it can be.

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Week 5 Fair Trade cocoa comes from 9 countries: Belize

Bolivia

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Costa Rica

Dominican Republic

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Ecuador

B_l__i_ Ghana

Nicaragua

Peru!

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Find the places on the maps of Latin America and Africa.When you find each of these places, write their names on the map or color each one a different color so you will remember where they are.

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Week 5 You can read stories about some of these farmer groups on the Internet. See the back of the book for a list of good web sites.

There are a lot of farmers in the Fair Trade system over 50,000!

Draw some farmers here.

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How Many did you Draw?______________________

Week 5 Fair Trade chocolate has special labels that tell you that the farmers were paid a fair price.

The Fair Trade Certified look like this:

Fair Trade Federation

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Week 5

Fair Trade chocolate is sold by only a few small companies in the United States. Big companies do not sell Fair Trade chocolate.

Cocoa farmers do not get a fair price for most of the chocolate we eat.

Have you ever eaten Fair Trade chocolate? ______________________________________ What did it taste like? ______________________________________ Do you think Fair Trade is a good idea? ______________________________________ Why? _____________________________________ What do you think you can do to get big companies to sell Fair Trade chocolate? ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ Cocoa farmers get only 1 penny for every chocolate bar that is not Fair Trade!

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Week 6 You can write to your favorite chocolate company!

Tell them that you are sad that

cocoa farmers do not get paid enough and that some even use child slaves. Tell them you Tell your friends and family to write letters, too!

are sad that many children work on cocoa farms instead of going to school. Ask them to start selling Fair Trade so that these problems will not happen anymore!

If we all ask companies to sell Fair Trade, they will know how important it is and they will do it!

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Week 6 Here is the address for World’s Finest Chocolate: Edmond Opler, Chairman and CEO World’s Finest Chocolate 4801 S. Lawndale Chicago, IL 60632-3062

Here is a sample letter: Edmond Opler, Chairman and CEO, World’s Finest Chocolate 4801 S. Lawndale; Chicago, IL 60632-3062 Dear Mr. Opler, I am sad that cocoa farmers do not get paid enough to buy food or go to the doctor. I am also sad that many children work on cocoa farms instead of going to school or being able to play like me. I am the most sad that some even use child slaves. Please sell Fair Trade chocolate so that these problems will not happen anymore! Please write back to let me know when you will start to sell Fair Trade Chocolate. Thank you!

Your friend, ______________

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Week 6

Do you know where to send your letter? To find out, look at the wrapper of a chocolate bar.

Here is how you can contact Global Exchange: Email: fairtrade@globalexchange.org Web: www.globalexchange.org/cocoa You also can find a list of other helpful groups and web sites in the back of this book.

They have a Fair Trade chocolate campaign and they can help you out! They would also love to hear about your letter to the chocolate company!

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Week 6 After you write to the chocolate company, you can do more things to help cocoa farmers: 1. Share this book with friends & family. Ask them to buy Fair Trade chocolate & cocoa all the time. Ask them to write to chocolate companies, too!

2. If your school or club sells chocolate for a fundraiser, ask the chocolate company to sell Fair Trade. If the chocolate company won’t sell Fair Trade, get your school or club to switch to a company that does. Global Exchange has a packet to help you at www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/ fairtrade/cocoa/ FTFundraisingGuide.pdf.

3. Ask your local stores to sell Fair Trade chocolate & cocoa. You can get a list of companies from Global Exchange.

4. Learn more about Fair Trade farmers and the places they live. See our web site for farmer stories at http://www.globalexchange.org/ campaigns/ fairtrade/cocoa/cocoacooperatives.html. Also check out the resources in the back of this book to get started.

5. Support other Fair Trade!

• Look for Fair Trade bananas and fruits! If your parents like coffee and tea, they can get Fair Trade in the store! See Global Exchange’s web site for company and store listings.

• You can find fairly traded clothing, hand-crafts, musical instruments, and other cool things from Fair Trade Stores

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Week 6 Fair Trade Federation www.fairtradefederation.org Global Exchange Fair Trade Stores www.globalexchangestore.org

Fair Trade Federation

Fair Trade Certified

Thanks for helping bring Fair Trade to more farmers like us and our families!

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Week 6 Mariano, Nicaragua

Ovida, Dominican Republic

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Week 6

Manuel, Dominican Republic

Asamoah & Lydia, Ghana

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REsources Groups that promote Fair Trade in the United States Global Exchange 2017 Mission St., #303 San Francisco, CA 94110 415-575-5538 fairtrade@globalexchange.org www.globalexchange.org/cocoa

Fair Trade Federation 1612 K St., #600, Washington, DC 20006 202-872-5329 ftf@fairtradefederation.org www.fairtradefederation.org

TransFair USA 1611 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 94612 510.663.5260 info@transfairusa.org www.transfairusa.org

Fair Trade Resource Network PO Box 33772, Washington, DC 20033 202.302.0976 info@fairtraderesource.org www.fairtraderesource.org

Coop America 1612 K St., #600, Washington, DC 20006 202.872.5343 info@coopamerica.org www.coopamerica.org

Oxfam America 26 West Street, Boston, MA 02111 617-482-1211 email@oxfamamerica.org www.oxfamamerica.org

Equal Exchange 251 Revere Street, Canton, MA 02021 781.830.0303 info@equalexchange.com www.equalexchange.com

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Save the Children Canada 4141 Yonge Street, Suite 300 Toronto, Ontario M2P 2A8 416.221.5501 or 1.800.668.5036 sccan@savethechildren.ca

REsources Groups that are working to end child labor Child Labor Coalition 1701 K St. NW, Ste. 120 Washington, DC 20006 202.835.3323 childlabor@nclnet.org www.stopchildlabor.org

Groups promoting earth friendly farming Organic Consumers Association 6771 South Silver Hill Drive Finland, MN 55603 218.226.4164 www.organicconsumers.org

Free the Slaves 1012 14th St., NW Ste. 600 Washington, DC 20005 202.638-1865 info@freetheslaves.net www.freetheslaves.net International Labor Rights Fund 2001 S Street, NW Ste. 420 Washington, DC 20009 202.347.4100 laborrights@ilrf.org www.laborrights.org

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REsources Resources for parents and teachers History and Manufacturing of Cocoa and Chocolate Chicago Field Museum of Natural History Chocolate Exhibit Museum online exhibit on chocolate www.fi eldmuseum.org/chocolate Exploratorium Chocolate ExhibitChildren’s museum online exhibit on chocolate www.exploratorium.edu/chocolate/ International Cocoa Organization Questions and answers about all aspects of cocoa and chocolate www.icco.org Jubilee Chocolates Lots of fun facts about chocolate and a special page to post questions you have. www.jubileechocolates.com

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REsources General information on Fair Trade Global Exchange Fair Trade Program Information on all aspects of Fair Trade, including links to lists of other groups and materials in the US and around the world. www.globalexchange.org, click on “Fair Trade�

Fair Trade Federation List of Fair Trade groups and materials in the United States and around the world.You can find fairly traded clothing, handcrafts, musical instruments, and other cool things from stores and companies that are in the Fair Trade Federation! www.fairtradefederation.com Oxfam International Oxfam has educational materials about world trade and Fair Trade that you can download for free and order from their web sites. www.oxfam.org www.oxfam.com

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This book may be copied freely for educational purposes. Please keep this page in the book when you copy it.

This book was written by Melissa Schweisguth and designed/ illustrated by Ashley Mokarzel It was produced by:

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2017 Mission Street, #303 • San Francisco, CA 94110 • tel 415.255.7296 • fax 415.255.7498 fairtrade@globalexchange.org • www.globalexchange.org/cocoa

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Global Exchange Fair Trade Team

Keep up the good work!!

Thanks for helping spread the word about Fair Trade and getting more companies to sell Fair Trade chocolate andcocoa. You are making a real difference in the lives of more than 50,000 cocoa farmers and their families across the world.

for making chocolate sweeter - one bite at a time!

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This certificate is presented to

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fairtrade@globalexchange.org www.globalexchange.org/cocoa 2017 Mission St, #303 San Francisco, CA 94110 415-575-5538 Country Maps: Page 7 - 12, 22 - 23: (clockwise from top left): Melissa A Schweisguth/Global Exchange, Fairtrade Foundation UK, Chokky Bikkies, Fairtrade Foundation UK Photo and Map Credits: PAGE 32 - 33

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Fair Trade Chocolate Activity Book

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This book is designed for grades 3-6. A version for grades K-2 is also available.

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