Your School, Parish and Community Can Help End Slavery

Make Your Easter Chocolate Slavery Free – Please!

“Every person ought to have the awareness that purchasing is always a moral – and not simply an economic – act.”
(Pope France 2015)

School students and parish communities are being urged to eat only slavery-free chocolate this Easter and not buy Easter eggs and chocolate that might have been produced using child labour from West Africa.

The Slavery-Free Easter Chocolate Campaign, a coalition of social justice groups, is asking people to buy only chocolate that carries a label (FAIRTRADE, Rainforest Alliance and UTZ certified) showing that the cocoa beans used in the chocolate’s production has been sourced ethically, from farmers who engage in good labour practices.

The International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF) estimates that there are about 1.5 million children working in the cocoa sector in West Africa, many of whom have been enslaved, or forced to work in exploitative conditions. Read more…

Download a campaign flyer and bulletin messages.