Fair Trade Trick-or-Treat Action Kit Giveaway
Did you know that October is Fair Trade month,
a time to celebrate fair wages and healthy, safe working conditions for artisans and farmers? Fair Trade Certification encourages environmentally sustainable business practices and prohibits the abuse of child slave labor, and since the cocoa industry is swarming with accusations of child slavery and other human rights abuses, choosing Fair Trade Certified chocolate is really important. So in honor of Fair Trade month (and Halloween!!),we’re sending one lucky reader a FREE Fair Trade Trick or Treat Action Kit. The Fair Trade Trick or Treat Kit has everything you need to make Halloween something special. It includes Fair Trade Trick-or-Treat chocolate to hand out, a ghostly Papel Picado Halloween decoration, a Fair Trade is Boo-tiful poster to hang in your window, festive spooky postcards and an ecofriendly bag for Trick or Treating.
To win this free kit: simply post a comment to this post by Oct. 22nd with your thoughts about the Fair Trade Action Kit, (make sure you include some way for us to reach you so we can let you know if you’ve won!), and you’re automatically entered for a chance to win your free kit!
More info about Fair Trade Month
Written by: Tex Dworkin, Global Exchange Director of Marketing, www.globalexchangestore.org.
What’s the difference between people who choose Fair Trade certified chocolate to hand out to Trick-or-Treaters and those who hand out un-certified chocolate? Lipstick. Kidding of course, but in truth the cocoa industry is no laughing matter. Let’s face it. Chocolate that isn’t Certified Fair Trade is just plain scary. The US Department of State estimates that more than 109,000 children in the Ivory Coast’s cocoa industry work under “the worst forms of child labor,” while the International Labor Rights Forum claims 284,000 children toil in abusive labor conditions in West Africa’s cocoa fields.
October isn’t just about Halloween. October is also Fair Trade month, a time to celebrate the economic model guaranteeing fair wages and healthy, safe working conditions for artisans and farmers. Fair Trade encourages environmentally sustainable business practices and prohibits the abuse of child slave labor.
Luckily people who purchase Fair Trade Certified chocolate are making a positive difference in the world. For years now, the cocoa industry has been linked to child slavery in Africa, unsafe working conditions for cocoa farmers worldwide, and harmful chemical pesticides that diminish the health of our environment as well as workers in cocoa farms. Fair Trade Certified chocolate guarantees that these and other conditions are prohibited, so consumers can enjoy chocolate as it is meant to be; a tasty sweet experience.
Global Exchange is doing its part to ensure that Fair Trade becomes the norm for chocolate and other products, not the alternative.
I love the skeleton party streamers. This is a great idea. I am worried about all of the small candy wrappers and other waste that halloween generates.
Great way to get the word out about fair trade practices. I never really thought about it in relation to Halloween.
I think it’s an interesting idea, but I would suspect we’ll be handing out way more treats than that! We decided to go the non-chocolate route this year.
What a great way to get kids thinking about an important topic!
chocolate good. mmmmmmmmm!
This is a great idea. Thank you for the giveaway.
What a great giveaway! I love the idea of free trade and would like to incorporate it into more areas of my life.
I think this is a fabulous idea! We’re T-o-Ting for Unicef this year in the interest of going green, but would love to share this prize with someone else.
This is great! I try to promote fair trade, and buy fair trade where I can. This is a cool way to start educating kids early on the importance of this
This fair trade Halloween kit is by far the coolest thing I’ve seen all day! We really need to get the word out about Fair Trade and how it is far superior to what is commonly known as “free trade”.
I noticed that even Melanie, a fellow good commenter, mixed up the two just above me. This just underscores how important it is to get the message out about free trade, and doing it during halloween is an excellent way to reach fellow neighbors.
I really like this idea because so often kids are more willing and eager to change than their parents so incorporating a fair trade action kit into Halloween is working with a captive audience. Children embrace change if they know the big picture results will be positive. I think this is a wonderful kit!