Chocolates Heart of Darkness

In 2001 the lucrative chocolate industry due to pressure from NGOs committed itself to putting an end to child labor in cacao plantations before 2006 18 years later has that promise been kept The Ivory Coast the worlds largest cacao producer made a real effort to eradicate this scourge on the country They built schools and trained farmers Television adverts even reminded populations that child labor is illegal So why does child exploitation still exist Further into isolated areas of the forest at the end of nearimpassable roads Paul Moreira discovered child slaves forced to work in plantations their incomes often seized by traffickers These child slaves are separated from their parents and sometimes resold onto other traffickers