On child labor its 3rd and latest plan has expanded to include issues such as supply chain traceability and illegal plantations in the classified forests and its allocated a little over 100000000 euros for the daunting task. May assume works for one of the ngos that implement the program at the local level youre dora said. To get us out of our role is to help children who are in trouble featurette a problem for some of the future children who are being abused who are sent to slave away or cocoa plantations. Those are the ones who are here to help also for the 4th year there are they could administer this to or before i work with the ministry of family to raise awareness in these villages about the Child Exploitation that takes place within cocoa farming this for. Kids. Children in ivory coast often help their parents out in the fields on the weekends thats not illegal kwame is targeting the families who dont even send their children to school. He works for a small n. G. O. S funded by International Donors he himself used to work as a buyer for the cocoa cooperatives so he understands why the farmers rely on their childrens help. He was rather cool because they help you to pick up the parts that are far right. Yes they pick up the pods you need to understand these children shouldnt be doing this work activity. So. If cocoa farming paid well everyone who could afford to send their kids to school that isnt usually when i explain to them that children need to go to school they tell me theyd love that but they simply cant afford it by the way if it were farmers with 4 or 5 children and no money to put them through school they dont know what else to do or. The only way to put children from a school on a cocoa farm and salary is to make sacrifices elsewhere. Mr song who has been working in the cocoa business for 30 years hes very proud of his son who will soon go to college he helps his dad during the School Vacations register so youre studying thats right whats something to do for. Us but im going to start history this year i just graduated from high school and ill continue my studies at college. Say that jewish infuses very difficult thats why its wonderful that they can manage the 1st installment of the cocoa earnings will only last for 2 months. Then theres nothing left. Next to get louis little brother he doesnt go to school or school anymore hes dad had to make a choice it was either get or his brother. I dont have enough money like last year we made 700. 00 francs a day this year 750 cents a month thats not enough. To disasters and to poor. Well you know. Give up this got your fingers to the bone we have nothing left to give theres no money my children help me out where they can. T. Go to school. Not anymore so you know if your dad could afford it would you rather go to school or work or other. Were not god you know god knows often are behind the chocolate industry turns over more than 100000000000. 00 euros a year meanwhile its estimated that an average cocoa farmer earns less than one euro a day. Would raising the price of cocoa beans put an end to child labor. Could the solution really be that simple thats a question we wanted to put to the representatives of the chocolate industry. We travel to devils a small town in switzerland thats known for hosting Large International business events every 2 years swiss chocolate manufacturer barry cull invites the cocoa industrys leaders to the conference shock of his young since 2012 theyve declared it a goal to end the abject poverty in cocoa producing countries. Very kobo notified us by email that we were not welcome at the event we go along anyway in the hope of meeting some people we can talk to after all they claim to promote transparency. But the Hotel Security has strict orders. Yeah no fear we. Let us work is no. No. If you. Please sir she told the police. We stay on the sidewalk. Minister a question please. Since this is a former minister from ghana almost talks to us but is quickly led away we starting to become a nuisance so they send us someone to interview as long as we promise to leave afterwards stammers the problem it is there i mean camera is the. Problem but thats only double the fact that in principle were not allowing any additional journalist in the im still here to bring the. Building to listen lets agree youre going to send me your questions and im going to reply to issue is bullshit. The burning question is why is nothing changing back in 2001 the Big Chocolate makers committed to in child labor that was almost 20 years ago. Trade isnt manufacture is set up the lumbee group will Cocoa Foundation that was supposed to improve conditions but social and environmental simple solutions. Are very hard to find for something as complicated as the child labor thought but we both agree that the solution of paying more to the growers of those it has not been implemented yet. We are looking at ways to scale up approaches to how farmers can improve their income 18 years of. Years to lucan what you going to do in the future and nothing is done nowadays efficiently to stop poverty. I would i wouldnt say that nothing is being done now as i mentioned before we have companies that are committed to paying premiums to farmers to help and then crease their income levels the cocoa business altogether every year is a 100000000000. 00 worth and the growers get 6 percent of it i think its in the what if what i can say is that this is not unusual for commodities if you think of cotton i mean how much does a cotton farmer get compared to how much we pay for a pair of jeans or another article of clothing that is made from cotton so its this is not something thats specific to cocoa ok so were meeting in 20 years and see whats going on ok every 20 years and. Hopefully sooner than that if police sooner than that. The power doesnt. Rest soley in the hands of the chocolate makers what about the law makers chocolate is a widely consumed product in europe. So we pay a visit to the European Parliament in brussels astoundingly there is no sanction for illegal practices within the cocoa supply chain. Heidi how to land an m. E. P. From finland has regular meetings with manufacturers. Have you walk into an office. Of the workers there are children boys yes there is a tragedy. And we are busy preparing an action plan on what to do with cocoa so that cocoa would not anymore cause the forestation and child labor and what is really very remarkable is that more and more companies are saying that we need this mandatory Due Diligence obligation we need law informant times you would have said that companies are masochistic that they are asking for a lot yes but they have but they want what they call a level Playing Field because they dont want to be irresponsible and then they see that the Irresponsible Companies are reaping the profits you know for a cheap price so thats the question because to be responsible may cost a little more and you feel. Like well well if i may i would just like to show you an example that of course there is this kind of fancy side of the industry but then theres not a word about these huge human rights issues and Environmental Issues that are hidden in that supply chain chocolate so i was invited to this reception but i just couldnt go because this is not the honest simple question one of the more i dont have a good answer to that everybody who works on the problems of cocoa say that yes you can you can. Maybe. You can coming to terms with. The forestation and there is the deep deep question of living wage is i think its a terrible thing that we can taste these fancy chocolates here in brussels but then see work are in it got people are probably did not even taste it because its too expensive its a luxury product out of their reach so leaving ways he said. So simple if they had just a little more money then more of their children could go to school back in ivory coast in the village of troy or to Cocoa Farmers or investing the little money they make in their childrens future theyve all chipped in to hire a teacher 200 children attend this class. Theyre about 4 years. Hard you are. Right when we see children going to the fields we tell their parents to send them to school instead we take kids between the ages of 6 to 9 how do you get paid. I get paid each month. By the parents for the parents they all chip in yes the state doesnt contribute. Because the state cant afford to hire teachers in full remote areas like this. Thats right. In 2019 ghana and ivory coast joined forces and decided to set the price of cocoa themselves the way opec countries do for oil. Exporting countries have demanded the industry pay 30 percent more to the farmers that only translates into 0. 30 per fan. 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