Fairtrade Chocolate Yr9 Speech
Buy Fairtrade Chocolate (Speech)

Chocolate. . For many you sitting in this room, chocolate is , a food that we crave. But for other children around the world, chocolate is anything but sweet. When you take a bite into that piece of chocolate, you may be unaware of what exactly it took for it to get where it is. Halfway across the world, children like us are forced to work in the most appalling conditions on cocoa farms where some of these chocolates are coming from.
So what exactly is happening on these farms?
The answer reveals the dark side of chocolate.
• The children work long exhausting hours, starting at about 6 in the morning and often do not finish till 6.30 at night. Although these children work 80 to 100 hours per week, they only make a few cents or no money at all.
• They work in dangerous conditions and carry out tasks that requires them to use harmful tools.They use machetes or sharp knives to pick the cocoa pods, slice them open and scoop out the cocoa beans. All of these children have been injured at least from this work. Their skin is exposed to intense heat and dangerous pesticides. They donʼt have the protection of sunscreen or hats, when our parents are normally shouting at us to put some on.
• Not only that, they barely get enough food to keep them going. Meals are usually fried bananas or corn paste, far from the full meals and luxuries that we are so used to having.
• Their living conditions in general are terrible and they also are vulnerable to abuse and beatings. Later at night they are locked up in tiny rooms (only 6 by 7 meters) with eighteen people in the one room, sleeping on wooden boards. Compare this to our beds and our houses, and imagine for a second what it would be like to be in their place. PAUSE
Sadly, most of these children will never even taste the final product that results from their suffering and wonʼt have an education.
Approximately 15,000 children aged 9 to 12 have been sold into forced labour on

Chocolate. . For many you sitting in this room, chocolate is , a food that we crave. But for other children around the world, chocolate is anything but sweet. When you take a bite into that piece of chocolate, you may be unaware of what exactly it took for it to get where it is. Halfway across the world, children like us are forced to work in the most appalling conditions on cocoa farms where some of these chocolates are coming from.
So what exactly is happening on these farms?
The answer reveals the dark side of chocolate.
• The children work long exhausting hours, starting at about 6 in the morning and often do not finish till 6.30 at night. Although these children work 80 to 100 hours per week, they only make a few cents or no money at all.
• They work in dangerous conditions and carry out tasks that requires them to use harmful tools.They use machetes or sharp knives to pick the cocoa pods, slice them open and scoop out the cocoa beans. All of these children have been injured at least from this work. Their skin is exposed to intense heat and dangerous pesticides. They donʼt have the protection of sunscreen or hats, when our parents are normally shouting at us to put some on.
• Not only that, they barely get enough food to keep them going. Meals are usually fried bananas or corn paste, far from the full meals and luxuries that we are so used to having.
• Their living conditions in general are terrible and they also are vulnerable to abuse and beatings. Later at night they are locked up in tiny rooms (only 6 by 7 meters) with eighteen people in the one room, sleeping on wooden boards. Compare this to our beds and our houses, and imagine for a second what it would be like to be in their place. PAUSE
Sadly, most of these children will never even taste the final product that results from their suffering and wonʼt have an education.
Approximately 15,000 children aged 9 to 12 have been sold into forced labour on