An advocate for child labourers in Africa encouraged people to buy Fair Trade cocoa at the G6B summit on Friday. Anita Sheth is with Save the Children, which lobbies for children used as labourers on cocoa farms in West Africa.
Sheth says 5 point 7 million children work as slave labourers on farms, primarily in Ivory Coast. "Thousands of children are currently exploited as cheap slave labour on cocoa farms in West Africa. they are between 9 to 15 years old and are traded across the borders for as little as forty-five US Dollars."
Sheth says Canada's chocolate industry is worth two billion dollars a year. She encouraged people to buy Fair Trade chocolate, which originates in farms that don't use child labour.
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