Title: We grow cocoa for chocolate
1We grow cocoa for chocolate
2Does chocolate grow on trees?
3Yes! It begins with a tree
- Chocolate comes from the inside of a cocoa
bean.
4Cocoa beans grow inside pods on cocoa trees
5From cocoa beans to your place
- The story of chocolate is a story like many other
foods. - It takes many different people doing different
jobs.
6Here is a cocoa tree nursery in Papua New
Guinea. Shhhhhh baby chocolate trees are
growing!
7The baby cocoa trees need looking after. What do
they need?
8Fiona is by a net which stops coconuts from
falling on the young cocoa trees.
9Cocoa pods
- After a few years the trees grow big cocoa
bean pods. These are nearly ripe for picking.
10- When the bean pods get picked they will go to
the fermentary. - The beans are covered in a sticky white goo.
- They need to ferment for about a week until the
beans are no longer bitter.
11The beans go on a boat trip
- After the wet beans are dried they get put into
bags. The cocoa beans then go on a boat and
travel to the mainland about 700km away.
12- Planting and growing cocoa was a lot of work. The
farmer has a family to look after.
13How much is a bag of beans?
- The farmer will get paid NZ300 for a 100kg bag
of beans. - Its important he gets paid a fair price.
Why is that?
14- The bags of cocoa get sent across the sea. They
end up at a chocolate factory.
15There are chocolate factories in PNG.
- Do we make chocolate in New Zealand?
- Who do the NZ chocolate factories buy their
cocoa from?
16Fair pay, fair price
Next time you buy cocoa or chocolate, check out
the label. Where did it come from? Did the
farmers get paid a fair price?
What can you find out about fair trade chocolate?
17Would you like to help Jerolyn?
18The families on Kapo Island need another 35,000
cocoa seedlings.
19The families on Kapo Island need a strong boat
to take their cocoa beans to the city. A canoe
wont do!
20Can you raise some money to help?
We would love to be able to help them. But we
need you to help us.
21Acknowledgements
- Thanks to the families on Kapo Island,
- Papua New Guinea for allowing us to spend
- time with them so we could tell this story.
- Thank you to Fr Edward Mali, Diocese of Kimbe
Matthias Ire, Caritas Papua New Guinea Diocese
of Kimbe. - Photos by Fr Philip Gibbs
- Visit September 2012.
22www.caritas.org.nz2013