2010 Reverse Trick-or-Treat Kits Now Available

Update from the Fair Trade Resource Network:

"Reverse Trick-or-Treating gives thousands of schoolchildren (& high school/college students, and adults) the opportunity to treat neighbors with Fair Trade chocolate while educating their communities about how they can help end poverty and the human rights, child labor, and environmental abuse horrors in the cocoa industry.

The Fair Trade chocolate is attached to a card with information unmasking social and environmental problems in the cocoa industry, and how buying Fair Trade certified chocolate provides a solution.

Reverse Trick-or-Treating kits are distributed FREE to individuals and at a DISCOUNTED WHOLESALE PRICE to organizations, thanks to the generous donations of Fair Trade chocolate companies Equal Exchange, Sweet Earth, and Coco-Zen. (Participants pay the cost of postage.) While supplies last, individuals can request kits from September 1 - October 8, and organizations from October 1-8. Request a kit using coupon code "FTRN", and get more information at Reverse Trick or Treat.

The campaign also helps people take these actions:

1. Distribute Reverse Trick-or-Treating flyers on Halloween, whether or not you request a kit. Download ToT flyers as PDF.

2. Help challenge Hershey to Raise the Bar! Distribute flyers/petitions as part of the campaign asking Hershey to go Fair Trade and end child and forced labor in the cocoa industry. Download Hershey PDFs.

3. Distribute Fair Trade certified chocolate minis to trick-or-treaters who visit your household. To purchase, please visit your favorite Fair Trade chocolate companies.

4. Organize a showing of "The Dark Side of Chocolate" at your home, school, congregation, etc. during Halloween week. This important new documentary reveals that the nightmare of child labor, trafficking, and slavery is continuing in the cocoa fields. Screening toolkit includes petition for viewers to sign asking Hershey to end child labor/slavery and go Fair Trade. More information available at the websites of Global Exchange, Green America, International Labor Rights Forum, and Oasis."