Every-bunny Loves Fair Trade!!


Make Easter sweeter for cocoa farmers by buying Fair Trade chocolate and demanding that World's Finest Chocolate switch to Fair Trade certified cocoa! Help promote Fair Trade! During the Easter season, companies like Word's Finest Chocolate sell millions of dollars worth of chocolate. Unfortunately, the chocolate that we often enjoy is not so sweet for the hundreds of thousands of child laborers involved in the harvesting of cocoa to make that chocolate, many of whom toil as slaves.

The US chocolate industry committed to ending abuses such as child slavery by July of 2005, but has not kept its promises. It is up to the consumers of the world's largest chocolate companies to hold them accountable. Let them know that this is not acceptable!

Here's what you can do:

*Send a fax to World's Finest Chocolate and demand that they take their share of the responsibility for ending forced and abusive child labor on their farms by using Fair Trade Certified cocoa.

*Purchase Fair Trade Easter gifts and show others that Fair Trade is possible! Visit the Planet One Gifts Fair Trade Online Store to see our selection of chocolate and other gifts. This year, you can order fair trade gifts, organic chocolates and Fair Trade Easter Baskets.

*Talk About Fair Trade in Your Classroom! Easter is the perfect occasion to talk with children about where their chocolate comes from and what they can do to help their peers on cocoa farms around the world. Global Exchange has lots of resources available for teachers and children of all ages to learn more about how fair trade is helping farmers and their children build a better life.

*Keep up the good work! Fair trade is on the rise! According to the Fair Trade Resource Network, the world market for Fair Trade products is expanding at 10 to 25% per year, with about 60% sales coming from a small number of food products, such as chocolate and coffee.

Continue making Fair Trade a reality!

For more information on how your school, church or community group can get involved or to order additional materials to promote fair trade in your home this Easter, please contact Gioioa von Disterlo at fairtrade@globalexchange.org or 415.575.5538.


Source: Global Exchange

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Help Raise the Bar on Chocolate Fundraising

Send World's Finest a Free Fax Today!

Over 40,000 schools and youth groups depend on World’s Finest Chocolate for their annual fundraisers. The profits from these sales support a wide range of causes and make up an integral part of many school budgets. Yet while nearly fifty cents of every one-dollar bar goes to support local schools or charity groups, scarcely pennies reach impoverished cocoa farmers and their families. Global Exchange is working with schools, churches and charitable groups across the country to call upon World’s Finest to broaden the good that our communities can do in using its fundraising bars by offering Fair Trade.

We feel that this is an important way their company can contribute to a comprehensive solution to child labor in the cocoa industry and use their products not only to support community development for our children but for children everywhere. Don’t let the profits from your next school fundraiser come at the expense of another child’s education on one of the world’s cocoa farms. Send World's Finest a free fax today and share with them your experience fundraising with thier products (or their fairly traded competitors) and the depth and breadth of support for fair trade in your community. You can use our sample text or write a message in your own words below!

Need help converting your groups fundraiser to fair trade?
Download our fundraising action pack with information and tips on how you can lobby your fundraising supplier to sell fair trade or switch your group to a supplier that does! For a list of companies that offer 100% Fair Trade Certified Chocolate, many of which have fundraising programs click here!

Source: Global Exchange

Fair Trade, Organic Chocolate available at Planet One Gifts. Vegan selection available.

Click here to go to Global Exchange and send a fax to Edmond Opler,
Chairman and CEO of World's Finest Chocolate. Tell him you are shocked and dismayed to learn that he still does not utilize sources of Fair Trade chocolate.