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for buying all their food, oil for cooking, clothes, medicines if they need them. School comes further down the list of priorities. But that’s part of what the Fairtrade people do – the Fairtrade chocolate costs more for us to buy, because the extra money gets used for helping the people who produce the cocoa. They work with charities in places like Ivory Coast to build schools, and health clinics, so Sami could get someone to look at his leg.”
“Do they ever get to eat the chocolate?” Poppy asked suddenly, and then looked at the table as everyone stared at her. “I just wondered. They work so hard for it,” she murmured.
“No, it’s a good question, Poppy.” Mr Finlay frowned. “I don’t know.”
Maya licked a smudge of chocolate off her thumb. It was very sweet. “I bet they don’t. There’s a chocolate factory not far from here, isn’t there? Probably most of the cocoa beans get made into chocolate in factories in other countries.”
“Perhaps you can find that out, Poppy.” Mr Finlay held up the chocolate wrapper again. “This is going to be our new project, for the next few weeks. I want you to work in small groups, and create some sort of display on Fairtrade.”
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