Celebrate Valentine's Day with Global Exchange!

Child trafficking, labor, and slavery have plagued the cocoa industry for years. But there is an alternative! Fair Trade certification guarantees that your chocolate is free of abusive child labor AND that cocoa farmers earned a fair price that will allow their families to rise out of poverty.

Here are 5 simple things YOU can do this Valentines Day to help stop child slavery and enable children in cocoa-producing families to afford to go to school!

  1. Are you an educator or youth group leader? Or do you know any? Participate in our National Valentine's Day of Action and you might win chocolate! Learn more at www.globalexchange.org/cocoa/vdaycurricula.html.

  2. Be cupid! Use our Fair Trade Chocolate Valentine's Day Action Kit!!! Action Kit includes Fair Trade chocolate minis, Valentines, and much, much more! Visit store.gxonlinestore.org/valentineskit.html.

  3. Buy your love Fair Trade chocolate truffles or other Fair Trade goodies from our online store at http://store.gxonlinestore.org/gxchocolate.html.

  4. Send a free fax to World's Finest Chocolate to tell them you love Fair Trade Chocolate! Two years ago, after receiving faxes and post cards from Global Exchange supporters like you, the company started looking into Fair Trade chocolate. But then, when the heat was off, they stopped short of taking action. It is time to put the heat back on!!! Click on www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/actnow/worldsfinestfax.html.

  5. Are you part of a school or community group that does World's Finest Chocolate fundraising? Or do you know anyone who is? Let us know at fairtrade@globalexchange.org as soon as possible, preferably by February 28. We are making a list of World's Finest Chocolate customers who would like to offer a Fair Trade chocolate bar for their fundraising program. This can make a huge difference in sharing with World's Finest the information they need to decide to become a Fair Trade chocolate company!