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minors debt slaves on the cocoa and coffee fields in West Africa
children in the developed world love chocolate, but the children who toil in West Africa in the cocoa fields, neither know for what these beans are used, nor have they ever eaten chocolate. Like so many children who are employed in agriculture, they suffer from the terrible working conditions: the day the sun beats relentlessly down on them, they get back pain from hauling is with cocoa bean-filled bags and the use of harmful pesticides, their body by additionally Vomiting and fever geschwächt.Erschwerend is also the fact that some of them as debt slaves on the plantations toil without ever getting reward. Particularly in the Ivory Coast, number one in the cocoa production, the demand for such nearly free labor forces is high. Some traffickers make a fortune, sell children from even poorer neighboring countries like Togo and Benin to the plantation owners. They promise to the children or pay good wages to the parents a small loan, which work off the children. Some are also just under promises, such as "I'll make an international football star" lured away from home. In particular
from the Ivory Coast but also from other West African countries are serious allegations of child labor in a known and study commissioned by the international chocolate industry (pdf file 1.8 MB) been occupied. Source: International Institute of Tropical Agriculture www.iita.org -> Summary of Findings from the Child Labor Surveys in the Cocoa Sector of West Africa
A 16-year-old boy from Mali, who has made it one of the few flee.
"We slept on the floor of a hut made of mud and straw We were only allowed to leave work in the fields The hours were very hard, from sunrise to sunset. and sometimes, when the full moon was, even to ten clock in the evening. We were promised reward, but they said that we only pay back the cost of travel müssten.Ich me there had toiled for two years without ever having to get money. Children who refused to work, were beaten with the Motorgurt the tractor or burned with cigarettes. We got hardly anything to eat: two bananas for lunch, which we ate without interrupting the work, and a corn soup in the evening. Some children have collapsed from exhaustion. Those who were sick were taken away and we have never seen again. "