My socials project on child labour :) me and my friend worked on this together, and I guess got a good marks too

2. Our topic today is child labour. As many of you might
already know that in first world countries today, it is
illegal for children to work under aged and even if they
do, parents are NOT allowed to keep their child away
from education. But even today children in third world
countries are being kept away from their rights on
education and are being forced to work. Although
many have been forced to work because of family
struggle, but many also have been kidnapped from
families and are being forced to work.

4. In Western Africa, cocoa is a commodity crop grown primarily for export;
60% of the Ivory Coast’s export revenue comes from its cocoa. As the
chocolate industry has grown over the years, so has the demand for
cheap cocoa. On average, cocoa farmers earn less than $2 per day, an
income below the poverty line. As a result, they often resort to the use of
child labor to keep their prices competitive. The children of Western Africa
are surrounded by intense poverty, and most begin working at a young
age to help support their families. Some children end up on the cocoa
farms because they need work and traffickers tell them that the job pays
well. Other children are “sold” to traffickers or farm owners by their own
relatives, who are unaware of the dangerous work environment and the
lack of any provisions for an education. Often, traffickers abduct the
young children from small villages in neighboring African countries, such
as Burkina Faso and Mali, two of the poorest countries in the world. Once
they have been taken to the cocoa farms, the children may not see their
families for years, if ever. Most of the children laboring on cocoa farms are
between the ages of 12 and 16, but reporters have found children as
young as 5.In addition, 40% of these children are girls, and some stay for a
few months, while others end up working on the cocoa farms through
adulthood.

5. Abdul is 10 years old, a three-year veteran of the
job.
He has never tasted chocolate.
Children such as Abdul don’t know anything about
protocols or certification. All they know is work.
When Abdul’s mother died, a stranger brought him
across the border to the farm. Abdul says all he’s
given is a little food, the torn clothes on his back,
and an occasional tip from the farmer. Abdul is a
modern child slave.
And he is not the only youngster working in his
group.

7. Yacou insisted he is 16, but his face looks far younger.
“My mother brought me from Burkina Faso when my father
died,” he said.
Scars crisscross Yacou’s legs from a machete. He can’t clear
grass in the cocoa fields without cutting himself. During
harvest season, he works day after day hacking the cocoa
pods.
The emotional scars run much deeper.
“I wish I could go to school. I want to read and write,” he
said. But Yacou hasn’t spent a single day in school, and he
has no idea how to leave the farm.
“It makes me angry,” Engel said. As far as he’s concerned,
the chocolate companies haven't done enough.
“They are working with us, and we are glad that they are
working with us. But they could do better.”

9. Many of the children working on farms in the Ivory Coast are from villages in that country, but many also come from
neighbouring countries such as Mali. An example of this is Sikasso, which is a “junction” for child trafficking in Mali.
Children are bussed through Sikasso, to a town called Zegoua, which is near the border with the Ivory Coast. Children are
then transported by taxi or motorcycle across the border into the Ivory Coast to plantations.
Some children are bought from their families for as little as $30. Sometimes families are too poor to feed their children, or
the parents and children are lied to and told that their children will be given an education and work skills. Some children
are kidnapped while playing in the street. Traffickers have been known to drive nice cars to lure children with promises of
wealth and prosperity.
According to the International Labour Rights Forum, 60% of children that are working on cocoa farms are younger than
14.
On some of the cocoa farms on the Ivory Coast, Children work 12 hour days or more. Beatings happen on a regular basis,
and children are made to climb trees with machetes to harvest the cocoa. Once the cocoa has been knocked from the
trees, the children cut open the pods with machetes to remove the cocoa beans. Many of the children have multiple
scars on their hands and arms from machete.
Many of the children that are close to towns aren’t paid enough to buy a bus ticket away from where they are, and some
aren’t paid at all. Many of the cocoa plantations are so rural, it takes 2 hours to drive from a town to the farm. In other
cases, some children start “working” at the cocoa farms at such a young age that they don’t know any other way of life.

10. By 2014 – Source 80 000 tonnes of cocoa through theNestlé Cocoa Plan; roll out
child labour monitoring and remediation to a further 12 co-ops; build 10 schools;
train 25 000 cocoa farmers; distribute at least 1 million plants to farmers.
By 2015 – Source 100 000 tonnes of cocoa through theNestlé Cocoa Plan and
complete our school-building programme to build 40 schools in four years.
By 2016 – Source 120 000 tonnes of cocoa through theNestlé Cocoa Plan.
In 2013 they purchased 62 299 tonnes through theNestlé
Cocoa Plan, rolled out child labour monitoring and
remediation at 8 co-ops, built or refurbished 13 schools and
trained 33 885 cocoa farmers (2012: 46 000 tonnes, 2 co-ops,
13 schools, 27 000 farmers).

11. A teacher gives a lesson at a
new school in Goboué in Lakota,
one of 81 departments of Côte
d'Ivoire. The school was built by
Nestlé and its Cocoa Plan
partners in 2013.
Agathe Vanie, president of the
women cocoa farmers’ co-
operative COPAZ, drives a new truck
provided by Nestlé.

12. Nestlé is helping hundreds of children whom it has found
to be working on the Côte d'Ivoire cocoa farms where it
sources the cocoa for its chocolate.
For two years the company, with its partner
the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI), has been raising
awareness of the child labour issue in the country's
cocoa-growing communities, and helping children
working on cocoa farms get back to school.
"Nestlé is providing cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire with
the practical support and means to get their children into
the classroom," said Sandra Martinez, the head of the
company's global Chocolate and Confectionery
business.
"Identifying exactly what is happening, and where,
represents an important first step to resolving the issue of
child labour in cocoa farming," she added.

13. http://responsiblecocoa.com/our-solutions/
We can spread the word over social media as almost
the whole world is on it.
We can donate money to foundations that provide
schools to these kids.
We can also boycott nestle.
Some foundations include:
International Cocoa Initiative (ICI)
Adam
Cargill
Ferrero Group
Nestle cocoa plans

14. The news of nestle is everywhere, but has anyone ever thought
about why the employers keep this tiny kids to help them in
working? Many employers responded that “It's true that some of
these teenagers -- 12 and 13 year olds -- are working illegally. But
others -- 15 or 16 year olds -- are often legal employees, pressured to
work excessively long and illegal hours that prevent them from
finishing high school.” They also said,” Poverty and unemployment
levels are high. That if we didn’t hire these children, they’d be
making a living off crimes!”

15. What You Can Do To Help
When you’re buying chocolate look for this
little logo to know that it’s fair trade (which
means that the farmers get a fair price).

16. Children are saying, “They are taking advantage of us, they are
thinking that we are not humans but machine, although we work
almost 12-18 hours many of us get nothing in return, a lot of us are
left to fend for our self and many of our employers are cruel and
do injustice to us. We do not have any rights, we have never even
tasted how chocolate tastes like!”

19. http://www.terry.ubc.ca/2013/11/26/c
hild-slavery-the-bitter-truth-behind-the-
chocolate-industry/
http://www.confectionerynews.com/M
anufacturers/Cocoa-child-slavery-
case-against-Nestle-ADM-and-Cargill-
proceeds
http://www.nestle.com/aboutus/ask-
nestle/answers/nestle-child-labour-
supply-chains

20. He has never eaten a choclate before