Sweet & Sour Chocolate Bars by Fernanda Brito

                            

Dear chocolate lover,

             Children's dreams of growing up to doctors, lawyers and other things are washing away. Their childhood is destroyed, all the playing tag and skipping on the sidewalk are long gone. These kids pass through tough times when they work their childhood away.Horrible things happen ,they get hurt and no one ever cares.
            In West Africa kids work in cocoa farms without any other option. According to the text "Bitter chocolate" , these kids "experienced worst forms of child labor including: verbal,  physical and sexual harassment..." In "child slavery and chocolate", "The agency says hundreds of thousands of children, many of them trafficked across borders, are engaged in the worst forms of child labor." These children no longer have sprits to play and dream. This boy named Yacou wishes to go to school he wants to learn how to read and write. In the article "Bitter chocolate, children " performed hazardous work including land clearing and burning, carrying heavy loads..."
            To help I would buy fair trade chocolate. Fair trade chocolate is when farmers are paid more so they don't live in poverty and their children can get a education.  According to the text "Reverse Trick-or-Treaters"Deliver Fair Trade Chocolate", "The farmers from whom this company gets the cocoa, they are paid fairly."I would also support reverse trick-or-treating. Reverse trick-or-treating is when kids go trick-or-treating and as they collect candy they also give back their own fair trade-certified organic dark chocolate. This raises people awareness about the topic of child labor.
             These kids get hurt everyday, they get harassed in so many ways. I thought adults would care about us kids because we are future leaders of America and we could plan very good things for the future that would change lives and hopes. Hershey I hope you keep your commitment of having 100% certified cocoa by 2020. We need to stop child labor and convince the public to buy fair trade chocolate.

                                                                                                         Yours sincerely,
                                                                                                         Fernanda Brito