Celebrate Easter, but not at the cost of vulnerable children. Fair-trade chocolate for Easter

March 10, 2011 - PRLog -- Much of it comes from East Africa where more than one million children work in slave-like conditions on cocoa farms.

Ensuring the you give fair trade chocolate is one way you can make a difference for farmers and producers, as well as taking a stand against child labour and trafficking in the cocoa industry.

Online eco-friendly gift store, Naturally Gifted, is taking a stand against the appalling conditions under which chocolate is produced. All of its beautiful Easter hampers contain only fair trade chocolate, giving Australians the chance to buy beautiful fair-trade gifts that they can feel good about giving.

Naturally Gifted founder, Sarah Helm says: “We have put together some beautiful fair-trade and eco-friendly gifts for Easter this year. We celebrate Easter by giving chocolate, yet a lot of chocolate is produced using child labour. Children who come from desperately poor families are trafficked and work under awful conditions. The western world needs to realise this and stop supporting it.”

“The one way we can all take a stand against this is to only buy fair trade chocolate. By looking for the fair trade certification on products you can be sure that the producers have been paid a fair price and innocent children have not had their childhood taken away.

“A lot of our customers look for gifts to indulge their loved ones, or their own sweet tooth but they want to feel good about giving it, and that is what we aim to provide,” says Helm.

Naturally Gifted is simple and smart – you give a gift, you feel good, and you make a difference.

Note to Editors:

Naturally Gifted

Naturally Gifted offers Australia’s widest range of organic gift hampers, fair trade gifts and eco gift hampers, all delivered straight to your door (or someone else’s) with our fast and efficient Australia-wide delivery service.  


Naturally Gifted offers a wide range of gifts for all special occasions throughout the year and sometimes “just because”. Naturally Gifted can meet the needs of large corporations and online shoppers alike.

Fair Trade and child labour in the chocolate industry

More information about child labour and the chocolate industry can be found at http://www.fta.org.au/news/470 Fair Trade Australia and New Zealand provides facts and figures supported by the UN.

In 2009 to 2010 the Fair Trade in Australia and New Zealand grew by 200% http://www.fta.org.au/about-fairtrade/facts-figures

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Naturally Gifted has created a range of beautiful eco-friendly gifts that make choosing a gift easy. With local, organic and fair trade products, beautiful eco-friendly gift wrapping, easy online ordering and fast delivery anywhere in Australia.