The Danish journalist Miki Mistrati heard rumors about a correlation between child forced labor and the cocoa industry. Intrigued, he decided to investigate these claims himself. The realities he discovered were more shocking than he had originally inticipated. His research brought him to Mali, West Africa. What he discovered was the business of trafficking small children into the Ivory Coast to work as slaves for cocoa field industries. The children are as young as seven that are being forced into the fields. They are forced to carry loads heavier than their own weight and cut down the cocoa with extremely sharp devices. Kidnapped, unpaid and forced into dangerous labor, these children’s lives are stolen for our chocolate.
‘The Darker Side of Chocolate’ is Mistrati’s research made into a documentary.
The International Justice Mission at North Central College is showing this film Feb. 10 at Mieley Swallow, 7-9. Come see where our chocolate comes from.
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