logging in or signing up Fair Trade Chocolate Hanygirl Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 262 Category: Education License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: March 09, 2011 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description Many are unaware of what goes on in other countries that are related to our habits and life style. We are all used to having the privilege of indulging ourselves in cheap chocolate that most don't even consider where it came from. Someone always has to pay. When we pay less, someone else has to compensate. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Slide 1: The Sweetest Chocolate is Fair Trade ChocolateSlide 2: Cocoa The US is the largest cocoa consumer Almost all cocoa beans are produced in developing countries. Africa produces about 69% of the World's cocoa. Most of our cocoa comes from the Ivory CoastSlide 3: Cocoa ConsumptionSlide 6: What is Fair Trade and Why is it Important? Fair Trade Certification empowers farmers and farm workers to lift themselves out of poverty by investing in their farms and communities, protecting the environment, and developing the business skills necessary to compete in the global marketplace. Fair Trade Certification ensures that ALL employees have a minimum wage floor, health benefits, and are old enough. This prevents the trafficking of humans.Slide 7: Fair Trade LogoSlide 8: What is Human Trafficking? “Trafficking in persons shall mean the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation”Slide 9: Cocoa Industry and Human TraffickingSlide 10: The demand and competition for cheaper chocolate forces the cocoa industry to look to underdeveloped countries for cheap cocoa bean production. Impoverished people, mainly children, are an easy target to lure into slavery. The cheaper cocoa attracts the bigger chocolate companies Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like meWhat Can I Do?: What Can I Do? Buy fair trade products such as fair trade chocolate, coffee, even clothing. Donate funds to fair trade organizations that goes toward raising awareness, reaching farmers and overall stopping the human trafficking dealing in the cocoa industry. Raise awarenessSlide 12: Some Major Brands That aren’t Fair Trade Approved Hershey's Nestle Mar’sSlide 13: Fair Trade Approved Brands Alter Eco Dagoba Organic Divine Chocolate Endangered SpeciesFair Trade Stores: Fair Trade Stores Salem: One Fair World; 503-585-1636 Portland: Global Exchange; 1707 SE rhine st. Portland, OR 97202 503-236-8900Slide 15: Children work tirelessly without pay They are far away from home, some as young as 5 or 6 years of age AND IF THEY TRY TO RUN AWAY........ Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like meSlide 16: They are hunted and either killed or severely beaten..... like animals.Slide 17: They are trappedIs It Worth It?: Is It Worth It? The choice is yours Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like meSlide 19: Bibliography http://www.fao.org/docrep http://www.onefairworld.org/ http://www.transfairusa.org http://www.globalexchange.org/ http://www.google.com/imghp “Mad World” By Gary Jules By: Hannah Liedkie Kayla Wohl Bryan Witt Alissa Anderson You do not have the permission to view this presentation. In order to view it, please contact the author of the presentation.
Fair Trade Chocolate Hanygirl Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 262 Category: Education License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: March 09, 2011 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description Many are unaware of what goes on in other countries that are related to our habits and life style. We are all used to having the privilege of indulging ourselves in cheap chocolate that most don't even consider where it came from. Someone always has to pay. When we pay less, someone else has to compensate. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Slide 1: The Sweetest Chocolate is Fair Trade ChocolateSlide 2: Cocoa The US is the largest cocoa consumer Almost all cocoa beans are produced in developing countries. Africa produces about 69% of the World's cocoa. Most of our cocoa comes from the Ivory CoastSlide 3: Cocoa ConsumptionSlide 6: What is Fair Trade and Why is it Important? Fair Trade Certification empowers farmers and farm workers to lift themselves out of poverty by investing in their farms and communities, protecting the environment, and developing the business skills necessary to compete in the global marketplace. Fair Trade Certification ensures that ALL employees have a minimum wage floor, health benefits, and are old enough. This prevents the trafficking of humans.Slide 7: Fair Trade LogoSlide 8: What is Human Trafficking? “Trafficking in persons shall mean the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation”Slide 9: Cocoa Industry and Human TraffickingSlide 10: The demand and competition for cheaper chocolate forces the cocoa industry to look to underdeveloped countries for cheap cocoa bean production. Impoverished people, mainly children, are an easy target to lure into slavery. The cheaper cocoa attracts the bigger chocolate companies Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like meWhat Can I Do?: What Can I Do? Buy fair trade products such as fair trade chocolate, coffee, even clothing. Donate funds to fair trade organizations that goes toward raising awareness, reaching farmers and overall stopping the human trafficking dealing in the cocoa industry. Raise awarenessSlide 12: Some Major Brands That aren’t Fair Trade Approved Hershey's Nestle Mar’sSlide 13: Fair Trade Approved Brands Alter Eco Dagoba Organic Divine Chocolate Endangered SpeciesFair Trade Stores: Fair Trade Stores Salem: One Fair World; 503-585-1636 Portland: Global Exchange; 1707 SE rhine st. Portland, OR 97202 503-236-8900Slide 15: Children work tirelessly without pay They are far away from home, some as young as 5 or 6 years of age AND IF THEY TRY TO RUN AWAY........ Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like meSlide 16: They are hunted and either killed or severely beaten..... like animals.Slide 17: They are trappedIs It Worth It?: Is It Worth It? The choice is yours Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like me Like meSlide 19: Bibliography http://www.fao.org/docrep http://www.onefairworld.org/ http://www.transfairusa.org http://www.globalexchange.org/ http://www.google.com/imghp “Mad World” By Gary Jules By: Hannah Liedkie Kayla Wohl Bryan Witt Alissa Anderson