2. It is a not-for-profit organisation that combines:

3. Retail outlets (shops)

4. Importers (who bring the products into the country)

5. Education (information on trade issues)

7. Paying the producers of products like coffee and chocolate enough to have a decent standard of living.

8. Only trading with producers who refuse to use child labour.

10. Reducing costs in stores allows Trade Aid to pay more to producers.

12. These companies use their power to negotiate the lowest possible amount for coffee, chocolate etc.

13. This is good for western shoppers because it keeps prices low in stores.

14. However, this price can be too low for producers to build sustainable futures.

16. They invest money in cocoa farms to improve the working conditions.

17. They help farmers develop environmentally sustainable methods of farming.

19. Project in KuapoKokoo It is made up of 1,200 village societies in Ghana. KuapaKokoo is a partnership project of Trade Aid. It supplies some of the cocoa used in Trade Aids chocolate. It has provides work for 45,000 farmers and over 200 members of staff..

21. A mobile health programme which visits villages.

22. The construction of two day-care centres and six classrooms.

23. Two mobile cinema vans to show educational films to farmers,

24. Development officers to train farmers in business management.

25. Helped women set up a range of income generating schemes including:

26. Tie-dye textiles.

27. Soap making

28. Snail farming