On Halloween night, children all across the United States will hand candy back to the adults who answer the door of approximately 100,000 households.

Why?

Reverse trick-or-treating is where children (and occasionally the adults who accompany them) hand out Fair Trade chocolate when they are given candy from households. The Fair Trade chocolate has a small informational card attached to it, which creates awareness of child labor, forced labor, trafficking, poverty, and more that is widespread on cocoa farms (especially on the Ivory Coast, where 80% of cocoa comes from).

What’s better is that the chocolate and cards are FREE. There are a number of Fair Trade chocolate companies who are passionate about Fair Trade and who are against chocolate labor. Recipients are charged packing and shipping, which is only $5.50!

It might be too late for this Halloween, but next year spread the awareness! If your child is too shy to hand out the chocolates, there’s no reason adults can’t do it once their kid has collected their candy.

Some participating Fair Trade chocolate companies are:

·      Equal Exchange
·      Alter Eco
·      Sweet Earth
·      La Siembra
·      Coco-Zen

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