Human Cost of Chocolate
Posted on February 17th, 2008
CNN has a story on the labor conditions that exist for those who work to harvest cocoa beans in West Africa. Many of the workers are under age. The article states that the industry agreed to wean itself from child labor but that little progress has been made in over 7 years.
I wanted to share this one picture from the story as it really made me think. This seven year old boy does not go to school. Instead he works in his uncles cocoa grove. I am not sure if the photographer was trying to make a point but I think that the boy’s t-shirt speaks for itself…..
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