Did you know that about 3 million tonnes of cocoa is produced each year (double the amount of 1974), and that the average North American consumes between 2 1/2 to 4 pounds a year!

Fair Trade Chocolate is becoming more readily available.  Recently Cadbury announced that their UK and Ireland leading chocolate bar (Cadbury Dairy Milk) will achieve Fairtrade certification by the end of Summer 2009.

For more information about this decision and to follow future developments in Fair Trade visit www.free2work.org or www.stopthetraffik.org

To read more about Fair Trade issues visit: www.fairtrade.org or www.transfair.ca

If you have an interest in sponsoring a Fair Trade seminar or need help locating great education resources, contact loriann_metcalf@can.salvationarmy.org