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Investigate how many companies produce Fair Trade and/or Cocoa Life chocolate products. Compare a Fair Trade/Cocoa Life bar with an ordinary bar. (Chocolate Activity)

Resources

2 plates
“Chocolate A” and “Chocolate B” cards
Copies of score cards
Fair Trade chocolate and non-Fair Trade chocolate

Safety note: please check in advance if any of your Guides has an allergy. If so, the attached Banana Fair Trade activity could be done.

Instructions

The Guides will learn about Fair Trade/Cocoa Life and try some Fair Trade products.

Instructions
• Explain to the Guides what Fair Trade is: When people or companies buy and sell goods we call it ‘trade’. Trade is good for the buyer. People buying things try to get the lowest price they can. Trade is also good for the seller. People selling things try to get the highest price they can. If someone loses out, trade becomes unfair. When trade tries to be good for everyone, we call it Fair Trade.
• Carry out a chocolate taste test with the Guides to taste the difference between Fair Trade chocolate and non-Fair Trade chocolate:
• Give each Guide an individual score card.
• Split the group into two where half will taste Chocolate A and half will taste Chocolate B.
• Ask them to give it a score out of 10.
• Swap the teams around so they can taste the other chocolate and give it a score.
• Collect the cards and add up all the scores.
• You can do this activity without the score cards and ask them what chocolate they preferred by putting their hands up.

Debrief/Discussion
Is trade always fair? Sometimes one person or company gets a much better deal than the other. Why do you think this happens? Discuss what other Fair Trade products are on the market.

Acknowledgement/Sources
Irish Girl Guides ‘Concerned about Chocolate’ resource pack.

Tags

• chocolate
• fair trade
• food
• GCE
• Global Citizen
• global citizenship
• global citizenship education
• Guide Chocolate
• IGG
• SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
• SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
• SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth

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