Oasis Belgium is involved in organising the Stop the Traffik campaign in Belgium. As part of that we are highlighting the fact that more than 12,000 children have been trafficked into slavery in Côte d’Ivoire and are working on cocoa farms picking the beans which make our chocolate.
We are calling for an end to this exploitation and are asking all chocolate firms to tell us clearly which farms they buy beans from and guarantee that we are not eating chocolate made from beans picked by trafficked children.
As part of this campaign we are talking to schools, youth groups and churches asking them to send a message to industry by only buying fair-trade chocolate.
This is a project to inform business travellers about human trafficking and to give them a place on our website to report any trafficking either into forced prostitution or forced labour. All the information and the place to report what you have seen is at www.businesstravellers.org