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Friday, 7 September 2018

Dark side of chocolate

Everybody enjoys chocolate, the sweet taste in your mouth. All these different flavoured chocolates. But does anyone know where and what's happening behind the scene. Do you know the issues about how chocolate is collected. The problem with these chocolate company's is that they a trafficking children to do the work for them.

In Africa (Mali) there are kids under the ages of 10 - 15 being smuggled or trafficked away from their homes to do the dirty work for these companies. These kids are being illegally forced to work, which could cause a long term effect towards their health when they are grown up. Also to be working in hazardous places causes concern. These children vulnerable with their rights.

The C.E.O of the company does not confess that there are child labours working in there company. He tries to hide the fact that there are children underage working for them. But to be working you'd have to get paid right, Most of these kids get paid nothing. Once the journalist went into where there workers are, he found children underage working. After all that, he went back to the C.E.O and had a conversation with him. Where he then confess that there are child labours. No one has the right to be under slavery.

My opinion towards this problem is that if these kids a working at such a young age, and also been Trafficked. My opinion is that these companies get shut down. They are taking the rights away from these kids. The right to and education, The right to have free choice. The fact that they know that child labour is illegal and still continue with there work just makes he angry.