I am doing my child slavery blog on Chocolate Slavery in Cote d'Ivoire. In Cote d'Ivoire Kids 12 to 16 years old are being sold in to child slavery and having to work on cocoa farms picking cocoa beans for several hours a day. At Cocoa farms they have kids working all day and all night with out lights. Most of the kids come from the neighboring country Mali where there are several agents that walk around looking for kids that are begging for food then they tell them they can get them food if they come with them to Cote d'Ivoire and when they get there they are sold to a cocoa farm for very little money. Kids at chocolate farm are not treated well and if they refuse to work they are beaten until they will.
This is a picture of a young child slave who is collecting cocoa beans in a basket that other child salves have collected for him.
In this picture you can see that it is probably a very hot day out and this kid is walking around with no shoes on so there are probably kids in the cocoa fields that are walking around with out shoes to. Also you can see that the kid in this picture is not very old in age and he has probably been doing this for a while to work off debt from his parents or he was sold by a child laborer to do this job that no one else wants to do.
This is a picture of the cocoa beans in Cote d'Ivoire that the child slaves have to pick and sort in to baskets. As you can see in this picture the cocoa beans are very small and it probably takes a long time to find as many as there are that are in this pile. In Cote d'Ivoire there are about 600 thousand cocoa farms and there are mostly kids that work on all of them but the are some adult slaves that have to pay off money they have borrowed and they don't have kids to sell to the cocoa farms and they have to do the work themselves and I think that is what should happen they shouldn't make there kids have to pay off the money that they have borrowed they should do it themselves.
There is an estimate of 15,000 kids working on the cocoa farms in Cote d'Ivoire. Most of the time all they are allowed to eat for there mean is corn paste once a day but sometime they starve the slaves and won't let them eat at all until they get things done that they haven't. The kids are constantly being beaten and whipped if they are not working hard enough. Cote d'Ivoire ships out 43% of the worlds cocoa beans used to make chocolate so that means the slaves are working a lot of hours with out pay. The united stats pays about 13 million dollars a year just on cocoa beans.
This is a picture of a young child slave who is collecting cocoa beans in a basket that other child salves have collected for him.In this picture you can see that it is probably a very hot day out and this kid is walking around with no shoes on so there are probably kids in the cocoa fields that are walking around with out shoes to. Also you can see that the kid in this picture is not very old in age and he has probably been doing this for a while to work off debt from his parents or he was sold by a child laborer to do this job that no one else wants to do.
This is a picture of the cocoa beans in Cote d'Ivoire that the child slaves have to pick and sort in to baskets. As you can see in this picture the cocoa beans are very small and it probably takes a long time to find as many as there are that are in this pile. In Cote d'Ivoire there are about 600 thousand cocoa farms and there are mostly kids that work on all of them but the are some adult slaves that have to pay off money they have borrowed and they don't have kids to sell to the cocoa farms and they have to do the work themselves and I think that is what should happen they shouldn't make there kids have to pay off the money that they have borrowed they should do it themselves.There is an estimate of 15,000 kids working on the cocoa farms in Cote d'Ivoire. Most of the time all they are allowed to eat for there mean is corn paste once a day but sometime they starve the slaves and won't let them eat at all until they get things done that they haven't. The kids are constantly being beaten and whipped if they are not working hard enough. Cote d'Ivoire ships out 43% of the worlds cocoa beans used to make chocolate so that means the slaves are working a lot of hours with out pay. The united stats pays about 13 million dollars a year just on cocoa beans.
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