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STOP THE TRAFFIK Easter Chocolate Campaign
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Friday, 21 March 2008

The chocolate industry has until July 2008 to deliver on its promises to stop using exploitative child labour on cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast.

In the next few weeks our action will show the chocolate industry that we will not stop our campaigning until the trafficking of children is stopped.

Graphic: STT UN film, with text 'STOP THE TRAFFIK pledged to bring 1 million declarations to the United Nations'.
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STOP THE TRAFFIK GREAT EASTER EGG HUNT

This is an Easter egg hunt with a difference

The best way to know that your Easter egg is traffik free is by buying fair trade chocolate eggs. Hunt out fair-trade Easter eggs in your town. In a traditional egg hunt the eggs are hard to find. Sadly it may be the same with fair-trade eggs. This may be frustrating but we must tell this story so people realize what is going on.

Go to every shop & supermarket where you live to hunt out a fair-trade egg. Take a photo of yourself outside the shops where you find a fairly traded Easter Egg. Print off and give the shop manager one of the STOP THE TRAFFIK coupons.

And then make your find the talk of the town …

1Upload a photo, put your first name, where you are from & one line saying what it was like onto the www.stopthetraffik.org/easterHunt.

2Fill in this letter and give it to the manager of every shop you visited that didn’t sell a fairly traded Easter Egg.

3To make this story the talk of the town sends your story and photos of your Easter Egg Hunt to your local newspaper/local radio/school newsletter or other community newsletters.

You can tell everyone what you found even when Easter has passed.

Last Updated ( Friday, 21 March 2008 )
 
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Coming Soon: The Great Easter Egg Hunt
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Thursday, 13 March 2008

 Why hunt for Fairtrade Easter Eggs?

An estimated 12,000 children have been trafficked into cocoa farms in Cote D'Ivoire, in Africa. Nearly half the world's chocolate is made from cocoa grown in the Cote D'Ivoire.

 
When we buy chocolate we are being forced to be oppressors ourselves as we have no guarantee that the chocolate we eat is 'traffik free' .
 
Stop the Traffik want to know where you found fair-trade Easter Eggs and how easy they were to find.  

Visit their website to upload a photo of your hunt, and tell them about the experience
 
Our actions will show the chocolate industry that we will not stop campaigning until the trafficking of children is stopped.
 
(I found mine in Oxfam, by the way. The Co-op also sells gorgeous looking Fairtrade Belgian Chocolate Easter Eggs with Chocolate Truffles , but not in my local shop). 
 
 (I'm hoping for the 'Burnt Sugar Milk Chocolate Easter Egg with Honeycomb ' myself). 
Last Updated ( Thursday, 13 March 2008 )
 
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Old Wispa raises money for charity
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Thursday, 28 February 2008
21 February 2008, bbc.co.uk
 
An online auction for a five-year-old Wispa bar has raised more than £100 for a charity.

Student Rebecca Wells is donating the cash to LAM Action which funds research into a lung disease.

Ms Wells, from Stoke-on-Trent, found the bar down the back of a sofa and was delighted at the amount an "old chocolate bar" had raised.
 
 
 
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Chocolate lorry goes to Timbuktu
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Thursday, 28 February 2008
23 November 2007, bbc.co.uk
 
Two British adventurers are setting off on a journey across Europe to west Africa in a lorry powered by chocolate.

Andy Pag, of London, and his co-driver John Grimshaw, of Poole in Dorset, were leaving Mr Grimshaw's home town on a cross channel ferry on Friday.

They are travelling in a Ford Iveco Cargo lorry powered by fuel that began life as chocolate, in a bid to raise awareness of green fuels.

The 4,500 mile (7250km) trip across the Sahara should take about three weeks.

The pair will take a small processing unit with them to convert waste oil products into fuel, which they will then donate to an African charity, along with the lorry.

They are taking 2,000 litres (454 gallons) of bio-diesel made from 4,000kg (8,818lb) of chocolate misshapes, the equivalent of 80,000 chocolate bars, to fuel their adventure.

"If we can make it [to Timbuktu] with bio-fuel there's no reason why motorists can't use it on the school run or on their commute to work"
Andy Pag


Read more on this story at bbc.co.uk
 
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Biscuits galore!
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Monday, 04 February 2008

Ferry sheds thousands of biscuits

Thousands of packets of chocolate biscuits have washed up on the Lancashire shore from a stricken ferry.

The McVitie's biscuits were being carried on lorries aboard the Riverdance, which ran aground off north shore near Blackpool on Thursday night.

Last Updated ( Friday, 08 February 2008 )
 
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