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Ijumaa, 21 Machi 2014

Was your chocolate made by Illegal child labor?

In Brno, Eliska Novakova invited me for the documentary about Illegal child labor in Cocoa Plantations in West Africa. The film started right after a 17 minutes Afghanistan´s war  aftermath film

I was angry when I saw that documentary. I believe child labor is a present day situation that should not be ignored but I wonder how was it possible for the government of Ivory coast to refuse visa for journalists who wanted to go in country to film about the dark side of chocolate.

These journalists are not Africans but they wanted to tell the world about this illegal situation so that our African children can go to schools. In other ways though the documentary was filmed and now the whole world knows about child Labor in Ivory coast a country that produce nearly half of the world´s cocoa

My Tanzanian friend Expert Sadala who is in Cocoa business in Sierra Leone said
"In Sierra Leon child labor is now under control after intensive training and sensitization. people now understand why they have to leave the children go to school. Because of that it is very rare now to see children involved in cocoa plantations...He continues, Farmers organize themselves in groups and work in turn to make sure they visit each individual. This have reduced child labour in cocoa plantations the only area where I am not sure is the mining sites there child labor can be applicable".

We African,its time to act now and support our children to get better education for the future of our continent, if we have opportunities to develop African children lets do it now because Africa is a sleeping economy giant of the world

Hakuna maoni:

Chapisha Maoni