While this poor kid is working his butt off us americans are to busy eating the chocolate that this kid put his hard work and effort into. What we dont realize is that young children put hours into making chocolate not because they want too, but because they have too. There is about 15,000 children that are put to work with making chocolate. That sweet and comforting chocolate, all put together by innocent children. In Cote d'Ivoire is the largest exporter of the cocoa industry and provides about 43% of the world's supply of chocolate.
The top brands that is made from this Child-Making proccess are M&M's and Hershey's. It's mainly known as young teenaged boys between the years 12-16 in age are those that have been sold as slaves to make the cocoa products that we love so much.
The slave owners, or agents of fake jobs, lie to parents of innocent children. Telling the parents that the children are going to be educated, have a paying job, and housing. Instead of actually doing what they told the parents the slave owners transport the children to cocoa farms where they are forced to work and produce the chocolate, and are also abused severely. There is a total of 60,000 cocoa farms in the Africa area. All of which account for the 1/3 amount of the nation's economy.
These children are forced to work over 80-100 hours of work a week. They don't get paid one single penny! They are also barely ever fed. When they work those 80-100 hours a week it's mostly on an empty stomache. Who are these people that would do such a crazy thing to young children? The people of Cote d'Ivoire.
Even though owning other people as "slaves" is illegal many people still do it. Some call the slaveholders, but either way the children are still brutally abused and tortured by all means.
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