Feedback on yesterday's Easter candy story:
Dear Holly, I read your article Bunny Business regarding the huge Easter candy sales. I was hoping you would mention the important issue of fair-trade chocolate. Did you know 70 % of the world's supply of cocoa beans come from the west coast of Africa? That there are 15,000 estimated children working in cocoa farms? Also these children have to work up to 100 hours a week and the youngest worker is 6 years old. We can change this with our purchases of chocolate especially by buying from non profit organizations like the Not For Sale Campaign. By buying fair trade/slave free chocolate we ensure no child is used, farmers and workers are treated fairly.Fair trade chocolate is available at stores like The Good Food Store but it's also available in chocolate egg and bunnies as well? We at Freedom Boutique get it from Sweet Earth Chocolates and it is delicious. We're selling it at Calvary Evangelical Free Church to raise money for a safe house in Peru, Veronica's house. Also available are Sweet Earth chocolate bars, proceeds go to "invisible children" in Uganda to help them build a school for these rescued children. Thank you for your article and for more information of child labor check out http://www.laborrights.org/stop-child-labor/cocoa-campaign www.sweetearthchocolates.comand www.notforsalecampaign.org Thank you and have a great day, Patty Brown Freedom Boutique
