Resource 4 (See worksheet 1-5) Who likes Chocolate?

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1 Resource 4 (See worksheet 1-5) Who likes Chocolate? Country U.K. Source Peace Child International. Age group 8-13 years old. Time 1 hour Introduction This workshop is about Fair Trade. It looks at how chocolate is produced and how the present trading system works. We discuss the choices we make and their effect on others. What you need A bean to bar game board for each group and a set of 8 pictures and captions. (see work sheets 4) Six name badges - Government, shops, chocolate company, middleman, non-cocoa ingredients, and cocoa farmer. (see work sheets 3) One bar of fair trade chocolate with 24 squares or model of chocolate bar with 24 squares. (see work sheet 1 & 2) A copy of Lynda s story. (see work sheets 5) What to do 1) Introduction - Start off by asking questions relating to chocolate. (Write questions and answers on the board). Who likes chocolate? How many types of bars can you name? Who makes it? How many chocolate companies can you name? What makes you choose your favourite chocolate bar- taste, cost, size, shape, adverts? (Rate them from 1 to 5). How much do you think people in your country spend on chocolate each week? 2) Bean to Bar - this is to show the links between the farmer, producer and consumer in the production of chocolate. Divide the class into small groups and distribute the game boards, pictures and captions. Tell the class to put pictures and captions in order to show the process of making a bar of chocolate, beginning with the cocoa bean and ending with the finished bar. Allow ten minutes for the task and ask the groups to present their answers. 3) Chocolate Bar Game - this is to demonstrate the economic difficulties of small scale farming and global trade. You will need to choose 6 of the participants to come up to the front of the class. Give each of the volunteers a name badge, they will represent the following: Government, shops, chocolate company, middleman, non-cocoa ingredients and the cocoa farmer. Award the cocoa farmer a chocolate bar which represents payment for farming the cocoa beans but warn him he must first make a few payments to the following: Non-cocoa ingredients Government Shops Chocolate company Middleman 3 squares 4 squares 5 squares 10 squares 1 square Explain that the farmer is left with just one square to support himself and his family with food, health care, education etc. Discuss the difficulties this creates, ask for suggestions of how this may be overcome and what we can do to help. 4) Lynda s story (see worksheet 5). Explain to the class that you are going to tell a story about someone just like them, a girl named Lynda. Give them a red card and a green card and tell them to raise the red card whenever they hear about a difficulty the farmer s face and the green card whenever they hear about the benefits of Fair Trade. (Read story) Ask what we can do to reduce their difficulties and make their lives better. Conclusion - Go back to original brainstorming and look at how much money is spent in your country in each year on chocolate per person. (UK= 50) Explain that they have spending power and can make an active difference by buying Fair Trade chocolate. Discuss what other Fair Trade products you can buy and where to buy them. 1

2 Who likes Chocolate. Worksheet 1 How To Make A Chocolate Bar What You Need One piece of dark brown very thick card 28 x 45cm. One piece of light brown very thick card A3 Image of a piece of chocolate (page 42-43) 24 pieces of Velcro. A colour printer. Scissors Glue What to do 1) Print out 24 piece of chocolate from pages ) Cut out 24 squares from the light brown card slightly larger than the image of the pieces of chocolate. 3) Glue the images of the pieces of chocolate onto the light brown card squares. 4) If you are using self adhesive velcro stick one side onto the square of chocolate and the other into position on the dark brown card to form a grid. If you are using regular Velcro use some strong glue. 2

3 Who likes Chocolate. Worksheet 2 Chocolate Template 3

4 Who likes Chocolate. Worksheet 2 continued 4

5 Who likes Chocolate. Worksheet 3 continued Cocoa Farmer 5

6 Who likes Chocolate. Worksheet 3 continued Chocolate Company 6

7 Who likes Chocolate. Worksheet 3 continued Shops 7

8 Who likes Chocolate. Worksheet 3 continued Non-Cocoa Ingredients 8

9 Who likes Chocolate. Worksheet 3 continued Government 9

10 Who likes Chocolate. Worksheet 3 continued Middleman 10

11 Who likes Chocolate. Worksheet 4 From Bean To Bar Instructions What You Need One A3 Sheet of coloured sugar paper or card. From Bean To Bar images, captions and board layout (page 51-53) A colour printer A laminating machine. Scissors and a guillotine Glue What to do 1) Cut out the boxes labelled picture 1 picture 8, step 1 step 8 and the title. 2) Stick these pieces onto the A3 sugar paper or piece of card as on the example board and then laminate it. 3) Laminate the picture sheets and the caption sheet, then cut out the individual pieces. 11

12 Who likes Chocolate. Worksheet 4 continued From Bean to Bar Step 1 Step 2 Step Step 4 Step 5 Step Step 7 Step 8 12

13 Who likes Chocolate. Worksheet 4 continued From Bean to Bar... 1) Cocoa pods are grown from the trunk and large branches of the cocoa tree. 2) After 6 months the cocoa pods have grown up to 35cm in length. When they have turned from green to yellow they are chopped from the tree with a knife. 3) The pods are split open and the white cocoa beans are scraped out. 4) The beans are wrapped in leaves and piled in boxes which are left out in the sun for a week. The heat of the sun helps the chocolate flavour to start developing. 13

14 Who likes Chocolate. Worksheet 4 continued 5) Next the beans are spread on a bamboo table to dry out, they are raked often so they dry evenly and don t stick together in clumps. 6) The beans are sorted and put into sacks. 7) Sacks of beans are shipped to a chocolate factory where they are roasted, taken from their shells and squashed. 8) Milk and sugar are added and the mixture is shaped, cooled and wrapped and the finished bars of chocolate are ready to be sent out to supermarkets for people to eat! 14

15 Who likes Chocolate. Worksheet 5 Lynda s Story Hello. My name s Lynda. I m 12 years old and I live in Mim, a village in Ghana. I have two brothers and four sisters. My parents are divorced and I live with my dad who is a cocoa farmer. After school I often help him in the cocoa fields, particularly during harvest time. Most of my friends parents are cocoa farmers too. Although my village has no running water or electricity, the young people there are like everywhere else in the world. We love music, fashion and dancing. In Ghana there are about one and a half million cocoa farmers. In the last 30 years the price they are paid for their cocoa beans has dropped right down, so they hardly make any money to live on. Sometimes they have to borrow money but it s difficult to pay back their debts. To make things worse, there have been bush fires, and months with no rain. The cocoa tree is very tall - up to 15 metres high. When the pods are growing its vital to keep a close eye out as rats, insects and weeds can destroy them. About ten years ago one group of cocoa farmers joined together to form a group called Kuapa Kokoo. They sell some of their cocoa through Fairtrade. This means they get more money for each sack of beans - and they know they ll have a regular income. The Kuapa Kokoo can use the Fairtrade money for training and to buy farming tools to help with their work. They learn how to look after the environment, and grow their cocoa without using harmful chemicals. Kuapa Kokoo includes women and men - there are now far more women working in the organisation and making important decisions. There are new schools for us too the extra money from Fairtrade can help pay for our schools fees and school books. Kuapa Kokoo trains its farmers so they know how to weigh and bag their beans. This had been a problem because some cocoa buyers would cheat the farmers by using inaccurate scales which didn t weigh fairly. Since we ve been selling our cocoa through fair trade we have new pumps for clean water. My Dad and the other farmers also learn about managing their money and how to make extra money in the hungry season when the cocoa is growing- for example by making soap from the cocoa husks, which means a waste product is being recycled! More and more villages want to join Kuapa Kokoo, but they can t sell all their cocoa through Fair Trade- there still isn t enough demand for Fair Trade chocolate in the UK. 15