THE TRADE
Make the sacks your background.
Once the beans are dry, farmers pack them into sacks and take them to the Kuapa Kokoo village recorder. The beans are weighed and the farmer is paid.
The recorder, who is elected by the farmers, holds a really important and trusted position in the village. They weigh the cocoa, making sure each sack weighs 62.5kg, and pay the farmer. Kuapa Kokoo recorders can be trusted and this makes a huge difference to the cocoa farmers who know they won't be cheated.Cocoa farmers have sometimes been cheated when they sell their cocoa to non-Fairtrade buyers, who fix the weighing scales to show a lower reading than the actual weight of their cocoa beans.
When the Kuapa Kokoo co-operative of farmers sell their cocoa beans for Fairtrade chocolate, they are guaranteed a fair price.When you buy Dubble and Divine, you know that cocoa farmers are guaranteed a fair price for their crop. This means that farming communities can cover their costs and plan for the future. The price is set at about £56 per sack of cocoa by the Fairtrade Labelling Organisation.Which is an independent worldwide Fairtrade Standard setting and Certification organisation.
On top of the Fairtrade price, Kuapa Kokoo receives about £14 per sack of cocoa they sell to spend on community projects like building clean water wells and new schools. This extra money is called the ‘Social Premium’.
SETTING SAIL
The sacks are loaded onto big green Kuapa lorries and taken to the port in Tema. There they are loaded onto cargo ships which set sail for Europe to a chocolate factory that specialises in making Fairtrade chocolate like Dubble and Divine.
The Beans
The Factory- The People - in Ghana grow the cocoa beans for Dubble & Divine choc, check out the 'BEAN 2 BAR' section
- The Trees - produce cocoa pods with white gooey cocoa beans inside, check out the 'BEAN 2 BAR' section
- The Pods - are rugby ball shaped and are usually yellow when ripe, check out the 'BEAN 2 BAR' section
- The Beans - are scooped out of the pods, fermented and dried, check out the 'BEAN 2 BAR' section
- The Trade - farmers are guaranteed a fair price for our choc, check out the 'BEAN 2 BAR' section
- The Factory - turns cocoa beans into yummy Dubble and Divine choc, check out the 'BEAN 2 BAR' section
- The Shop - where you have the power to make a difference, check out the 'BEAN 2 BAR' section
- Choc 'n' Change - change the chocolate industry - check out the choc 'n' change section