Children as young as 11 are being trafficked into slavery harvesting cocoa
for giants like Nestle, Mars, and Hershey.

But a group of former child labourers is fighting back with a lawsuit that
could crush this practice for good -- will you chip in
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and help them end the chocolate slave trade?

[1]Hands holding cocoa beans.


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John,

Tenimba was just 11 when a trafficker lured him from his home in Mali to a
cocoa plantation in Ivory Coast. He was promised good pay and care.
Instead, he worked every day for two years with no pay, no medical care,
and no safety measures.

Today there are over 1.5 million child slaves like Tenimba, losing their
childhood to supply cocoa to some of the world’s wealthiest brands, like
Nestle, Mars, and Hershey.

But Tenimba and 7 other former child slaves have brought a lawsuit against
these chocolate giants, hoping to get justice for themselves and hundreds
of thousands of others.

They’re up against the most expensive lawyers money can buy -- and they’re
asking for your help. Will you help fund their lawsuit and save these
children from slavery?



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[ [link removed] ]Yes, I’ll donate
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to stand with Tenimba and end the chocolate slave trade.

Nestle, Mars, and Hershey know all about their child slavery problem.
They’ve been promising to end it since 2001. Yet with each deadline that
passes, they kick the can down the road, all while hundreds of thousands
of kids are forced to trade their youth to provide these giants with cocoa
-- and billions in profits.

This lawsuit could change things — it’s a class action, which means more
child labourers could join in and sue for reparations. Mounting costs and
reputation damage could finally break these chocolate giants, forcing them
to actually, at long last, address the problem.

This is a true David vs. Goliath story -- former child slaves against the
giant international corporations that profited from their exploitation.

Will you chip in to help them win this fight and get justice for all of
Big Chocolate’s child labourers? Every extra penny we raise will fuel our
campaigning to end human rights abuses in supply chains around the world.



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to stand with Tenimba and end the chocolate slave trade.

   

Thanks for all that you do,
Danny and the SumOfUs team



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More information:

[ [link removed] ]Mars, Nestlé and Hershey to face child slavery lawsuit in US, The
Guardian, 12 February 2021. 

[ [link removed] ]Press Release, International Rights Advocates, 12 February 2021. 

 

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