Mary Reid

More about Stop the Traffik who won the Advocacy Award at the New Statesman New Media Awards on Tuesday. You'll see one of their banners outside St Paul's Church on the Hook Road.

Where does your chocolate come from? According to Stop the Traffik nearly half the world's chocolate is made from cocoa grown in the Cote D'Ivoire, in Africa. Horrifyingly, 12,000 children have been trafficked into cocoa farms in Cote D'Ivoire.  Stop the Traffik's Chocolate Campaign tells you much more about this dreadful trade.

We can all help to stop this by only buying brands of chocolate that has not been processed using slave labour. You can download a list of Traffik Free chocolate here. It's quite a long list so you won't have to forgo your chocolate fix! You can be sure that anything labelled Fairtrade will be Traffik Free, as well as Traidcraft and Oxfam stock, but some other brands are as well, so it is worth checking the list. It also tells you which supermarkets stock which brands.