Burkina Currency Faso

Posted onDecember 18, 2011 - 1:26 am by Admin | 0 Comments

Under the guise of a cocoa dealer, a BBC journalist has found evidence to substantiate that child labour and human trafficking is still in existence in cocoa farming, neighbouring countries such as Burkina Faso, traffic young children to work in the cocoa fields without any pay, no schooling and substandard living conditions.

West Africa sources more than 60% of the world’s cocoa supply, countries such as Ghana and the Ivory Coast are dependent on the chocolate trade and more than 10 million people survive from its industry. Villages rely on the revenue of cocoa farming, to the extent that young children are brought in to work the fields, according to figures compiled by the U.S Sate Dept an estimated 100,000 Ivory Coast children work in cocoa farming.


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