Promote Fair Trade Chocolate on Halloween

Promote Fair Trade Chocolate on Halloween

On Halloween, chocolate is the tastiest of treats. Yet, in reality, our favorite candy is bitter sweet…

284,000 children toil in abusive labor conditions in West Africa’s cocoa field, many trafficked from neighboring countries
Cocoa companies pay prices so low that many cocoa farmers cannot meet their families’ basic needs

On Halloween, chocolate is the tastiest of treats. Yet, in reality, our favorite candy is bitter sweet…

  • 284,000 children toil in abusive labor conditions in West Africa’s cocoa field, many trafficked from neighboring countries
  • Cocoa companies pay prices so low that many cocoa farmers cannot meet their families’ basic needs

Will you help spread the word on the cocoa industry’s dark side while also supporting more sustainable alternatives? Participate in Global Exchange’s third annual Reverse Trick-or-Treating!

West African economies are critically dependent on cocoa. But with 70% of the cocoa you find in stores coming from West Africa, buying fair trade chocolate is an excellent way to break the chocolate companies’ reliance on child labor. Through Reverse Trick-or-Treating, kids give Fair Trade chocolate back to adults while trick-or-treating on Halloween!  A pleasant surprise will greet nearly a quarter million people distributing candy at their door, when, instead of demanding chocolate, youth hand adults a sample of vegan-friendly, Fair Trade dark chocolate. The chocolate is attached to a card with information about social and environmental justice issues in the cocoa industry and how buying Fair Trade certified chocolate provides a solution. 

If we are going to reach a quarter million households on Halloween again this year with our important message promoting social justice, we need your help! Order your FREE Reverse Trick-or-Treating kit, or learn about how to spread the word with fliers and handouts. Or, order Fair Trade chocolate to hand out to kids coming by your door!

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to learn what you can do to END forced/abusive labor in the cocoa industry, END poverty in cocoa farming communities, PROMOTE fair trade, and PROTECT the environment!

Reverse Trick-or-Treating is an initiative launched by the human rights organization Global Exchange in cooperation with Fair Trade company Equal Exchange and is a collaborative effort of countless children, youth, and adults supported by institutions including nonprofit organizations, faith-based organizations, Fair Trade companies, and schools.

In solidarity,

Rocco, Beth, and Bahati