Introduction
Child slaves are being used to work and harvest cocoa on the farms in West Africa. Many global companies make large profits from cocoa farmed by children in slavery working along the Ivory Coast. Child slavery keeps costs down, which allows major corporations to keep their chocolate cheap as it costs more to actually pay laborers a fair wage. Sustained action from concerned consumers has helped pressure some of the world’s major chocolate companies to take slight responsibility to help end the appalling practice of using child slaves within cocoa production. BUT chocolate companies, consumers, and the world at large MUST increase their efforts to end child slavery in the industry.
Task
You will investigate the child slavery and chocolate human rights issue through a variety of sources: articles, videos, images, etc.
Process
Complete guided research through answering inquiry questions, fill-in-the-blank, and finished with your own personal reflections.