While working on a fair trade project for the Justice and Peace Commission at church, I found a really cool website. It's called Global Exchange - Socially Conscious Gifts. The coolest thing on it is a Reverse Trick or Treating Program. Here's what the website says:
Hundreds of groups of Trick-or-Treaters in the United States and Canada will unite to:
END poverty among cocoa farmers
END forced/abusive child labor in the cocoa industry
PROMOTE Fair Trade
PROTECT the environment A pleasant surprise will greet nearly a quarter million people distributing candy at their door, when youth reverse the Halloween tradition to hand adults a sample of Fair Trade chocolate.
The chocolate will be accompanied by a card informing recipients of poverty and child labor problems in the cocoa industry, affecting mainstream candy enjoyed at Halloween and around the year, and how Fair Trade certified chocolate provides a solution.
Parents of last year's youngest participants raved about how Reverse Trick-or-Treating transformed Halloween into a meaningful event when youthful activists can give back to their neighbors and to cocoa growing communities. Read more reactions in our newsletter article here.
This is right up my alley! Every year since the kids started trick-or-treating, I've had a problem with both handing out and collecting a ton of junky candy. A few years we opted to give out junky Oriental Trading toys in lieu of candy, but that didn't seem right either. Now there's an alternative! I think RMD will go for it. Stay tuned....
Hundreds of groups of Trick-or-Treaters in the United States and Canada will unite to:
END poverty among cocoa farmers
END forced/abusive child labor in the cocoa industry
PROMOTE Fair Trade
PROTECT the environment A pleasant surprise will greet nearly a quarter million people distributing candy at their door, when youth reverse the Halloween tradition to hand adults a sample of Fair Trade chocolate.
The chocolate will be accompanied by a card informing recipients of poverty and child labor problems in the cocoa industry, affecting mainstream candy enjoyed at Halloween and around the year, and how Fair Trade certified chocolate provides a solution.
Parents of last year's youngest participants raved about how Reverse Trick-or-Treating transformed Halloween into a meaningful event when youthful activists can give back to their neighbors and to cocoa growing communities. Read more reactions in our newsletter article here.
This is right up my alley! Every year since the kids started trick-or-treating, I've had a problem with both handing out and collecting a ton of junky candy. A few years we opted to give out junky Oriental Trading toys in lieu of candy, but that didn't seem right either. Now there's an alternative! I think RMD will go for it. Stay tuned....
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