San Franciscans have a reputation for trying to do everything differently. This Halloween, some children will be handing candy back instead of looking only into filling up their treat bags. It's all about fighting against cocoa farmers' poverty with the Reverse Trick-or-Treating movement.
Despite years of promises from the major chocolate manufacturers, too little has been done to tackle the documented problem of forced child labor on many farms that supply such manufacturers with their cocoa. Even though chocolate makers continue to enjoy profitable business, the cocoa farmers have been kept in dire straits after all those years. The organization Equal Exchange is donating kits with organic, fairly traded chocolate alongside informational cards so kids - and grownups, too - can give them away in an effort to raise awareness of citizens towards the case for fairly traded goods and farmers' rights.
