Chocolate vs. Child labor by Stephany Rueda
Dear chocolate lover,
Children in the west coast of Africa work in cocoa farms. They are taken away from their families and are forced to work. Every year children suffer of child labor. At least 2 million children currently are involved in the production of cocoa in Ghana and the Ivory coast
While working in the cocoa farms children get bruises, scars, and even ill. The role of children is working to plant and harvest cocoa beans. They have to work all the day for only a few cents a day, you’ll see children with machete cutting down the cocoa beans. Some children don’t even know what the word “chocolate” means or never tasted it. They work the whole day. Some are wounded and children get exposed to pesticides of fertilizer. Children sometimes have to breathe in dirty air. And if they get sick there will be no one to help them.
What we do to help them is buy Fair Trade Chocolate. Fair trade chocolate is when farmers get paid fairly for their chocolate cocoa beans. Fair trade standards guarantee that farmers receive premium of $150. People should take actions and stand up for child labor so it could end. Child labor is killing children. Its unfair because traffickers get paid and children who work all day and don’t get enough money to pay off their parents debt. Children in child labor never get education and never get to go to school.
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