2005 Fair-Trade Chocolate Sale

This year Irving School Camp Fire is selling fair-trade chocolate as a double service project. Here's why it's double service:

	Because we're selling fair-trade chocolate, we're helping the people who grow the chocolate in Africa.
	Because we're giving profits to the Chicago Metro Camp Fire Council, we're helping Camp Fire kids who live in communities less fortunate than our own.

Our fair-trade chocolate sale also will help Starflight members earn their Gift of Giving emblems.

Our Starflight club will be distributing cases of chocolate bars to its families at the conclusion of the March 17th meeting (from about 7:40-8:00 p.m.) The cases are $30 each, and we'd like each family to sell at least one case of 30 bars to friends, relatives, parents coworkers, and so forth (you can sell more if you want!) Checks should be made out to Campfire USA, and we'd like as many families as possible to pay at the March 17 meeting.

Here are some links to more information about chocolate and fair trade:

To learn more about fair-trade chocolate, please go to the Divine Chocolate Company website. (They make the chocolate bars we will be selling this year.)
http://www.divinechocolate.com/story.htm

Global Exchange is trying to educate children and adults about the benefits of buying fair-trade chocolate:
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/cocoa/chocolatekids.html

The Field Museum in Chicago has information and online activities about how cocoa beans are grown and chocolate is made:
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/chocolate/index.html
Look for the links entitled "Explore our Manufacturing Chocolate from Seed to Sweet, The Chocolate Challenge, and Cacao Farm Interactives" at the bottom of the page. (The Field Museum originally developed their website for their Chocolate! That exhibit is now traveling around the United States.)

The Exploratorium, a science center in San Francisco, California, also has a really good website about chocolate:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/chocolate/

Questions, comments -- or want to join? E-mail Eric at CampFire@SaltTheSandbox.org

This page was last updated on March 10, 2004.