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![Safepoint Team Climbs to New Heights]() | Safepoint Team Climbs to New Heights
Fuelled by Cocoa Loco chocolate, a team of Sussex Mums have just climbed to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro to kick off the latest Safepoint Campaign.
The climb has raised enough money to donate millions of single use syringes to Tanzania and was followed by a press conference to raise awareness of the importance of clean injections in a country where over 20 million HIV infected injections are given every year.
After great success in India, Tanzania is the next country that Safepoint charity is focussing on. The climb is the start of a broader campaign to educate people on safe injections and help support a government led change in the way injections are delivered.
Safepoint is our chosen charity and you can find out more about their work at www.safepointtrust.org |
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![Panorama -]() | Panorama - "Chocolate -The Bitter Truth"
Our cocoa comes from a co-operative in the Dominican Republic and we only work with like minded organisations who are committed to the growing and processing of cocoa with a sustainable environmental and social footprint.
We are very pleased that the BBC Panorama program has helped to raise public awareness of the exploitation of children in the cocoa industry. This is a major problem in West Africa, where 70% of the worlds cocoa comes from and is estimated to affect more than one million children.
At Cocoa Loco we believe that everyone should be treated fairly from bean to mouth and as a small business our certification with the Fairtrade Foundation helps to offer critical protection for workers and directly addresses the underlying problem of low cocoa prices and poverty amongst cocoa farmers.
The farmers and members of the Conacado co-operative abide by the key covenants of the International Labour Organization, including those forbidding inappropriate child labour and forced labour. The Fairtrade Foundations system of traceability, which is not prevalent in the wider cocoa industry, supports the policing and enforcement of these standards.
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 | Bad Weather, Good Times
Having a chocolate factory on a farm has its pros and cons.
After a heavy snow fall we made it into work to find there was no electicity! But Sarah knew what to do and put our chocolate buttons to good use!
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 | Channel 4 - Top Ten Chocolate Shops
Charlie Cottrell has been out and about trying chocolate for Channel 4 and has compiled her list of Top 10 Chocolate Shops in the UK and our internet shop is one of them! Yippeeeee.
Find out more.....
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 | Carbon Dioxide & Global Warning
We have recently sponsored a piece of land from Cool Earth, who are securing rainforest and working with the local communities to make it worth more to them standing than cut down.
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