Now you're in your 20's. Or your 90's. Or your 30's. Or your teens. Or your 50's. Or what-ever.

But you know you MISS it. You know you LOVE it. The THRILL of that SEARCH thang.

Secretly, you WISH you could still do it.

Global Exchange presents: The Spring Fair Trade Chocolate Hunt...GX Style

Bring your kids if you have them, but leave those frilly, pastel baskets at home. Instead, get a group of friends together and shake your neighborhood down. For Fair Trade Chocolate.

This Chocolate Search comes equipped with an effortless how-to list:

1. Make a date! Schedule a date for you and your group of 3-10 friends to get together. Decide on a destination where you can easily walk to a number of stores that sell chocolate, ideally including stores that members of your group patronize on a regular basis.
2. Prepare! (1) Prepare to fill your friends in about chocolate -- the abuses in the cocoa industry and the advantages to Fair Trade chocolate. Browse our cocoa pages for more information and resources. If you have a group of elementary school kids, we suggest a presentation using Global Exchange's Activity Book. (2) Print materials you may wish to distribute to store managers, such as Global Exchange's list of Fair Trade companies and Transfair's Chocolate Fast Facts.
3. Role play! (1) When the day arrives, first, teach your friends what they need to know about chocolate, to get them excited about the Chocolate Hunt (2) Break into groups of three people; each person takes a role -- Fair Trade chocolate searcher, store clerk, and store manager. Practice using GX's talking points for outreach to stores. Each person should get a turn at each role.
4. Hit the streets! Walk around to stores that carry chocolate -- they can be big stores, little stores, independent stores, chain stores, any stores. See if the stores carry Fair Trade chocolate. And I they don't, use the talking points to encourage the stores to start selling Fair trade chocolate.