Trading Visions
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Trading Visions, in partnership with Comic Relief, has installed satellite broadband access and computer equipment in two Kuapa Kokoo supported rural schools in Ghana. Our aim is to use the power of video conferencing to bring the children of Fairtrade cocoa farmers face to face with consumers in the UK and drive Fairtrade education and action.
ITV Wales filmed our first video conferencing session between Wales and Ghana. You can watch this film online.
Weighing cocoa Why are millions of small-scale commodity growers around the world experiencing crushing poverty, yet growing the essential crops for multi-million pound industries, such as cocoa for the global chocolate industry?
Powerful business interests in the North control the market for the benefit of their shareholders at the expense of the people at the other end of the trading chain. Trading Visions aims to alleviate the poverty of small-scale cocoa farmers and other producers in the South, by amplifying their voices in the supply chain to challenge and change industry practice.
Trading Visions exhibit at Eden Project
Trading Visions exhibit at Eden Project
Trading Visions was at the Eden Project in Cornwall over the summer, inviting visitors to get hands on and experience the amazing bean to bar story of Divine and Dubble chocolate.
Trading Visions partnered with Comic Relief and Kuapa Kokoo to produce a short film for the JOIN UP! Send My Friend to School campaign.
Ghanaian school kids
Every day 80 million children miss out on going to school. The JOIN UP! campaign aims to make world leaders sit up and listen to the views of young people all over the world, reminding them of the Millennium Development Goal to achieve free primary education for all by 2015. (External) Watch the film (click on "JOIN UP! in Ghana") to hear the views of young people in one cocoa faming community in New Koforidua, Ghana.
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