Chocolate is dee-licious!

But it's no fun for people who grow the cocoa beans for very little pay, in countries like Ghana and Brazil. Most of them are so poor they have never even tasted chocolate.

Ricardo's story

'I can't read or write because Mum and Dad can't afford to send me to school.'

'I'm ten and I live in a shack in northern Brazil with seven other members of my family. We all have to work on the cocoa plantation. It's hot and wet among the coca trees. Creepy- crawlies climb up our legs, and our feet sink into the mud. My job is to collect the cocoa pods, carry them to the mules and scoop out the sticky pulp and beans from the pods with my hands.

The pay is so bad that we often go hungry, and we can't grow our own food as we have no land.'

Lameck's story

'I'm learning to read and would love to become a doctor.'

'I'm 12 and I live in Ghana. I only help on our cocoa plantation from time to time as I'm at school most days.'

Life for Lameck and his family has got much better since they joined the Day Chocolate Company, which sells Divine chocolate. They now belong to an group, called a co-operative,
which sells their beans to the Day Chocolate Company for a fair price. What's more, Lameck's family also get a share of the profit when the chocolate is sold.

The cocoa beans grown by Lameck's family are used to make bars of Divine chocolate. So, if you want to support the fair way of doing things, you know what to buy...

Check out where chocolate comes from in this video clip

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Ricardo, at work

Kim Naylor

Lameck, enjoying some chocolate made from the cocoa beans his family grows