Welcome! Thanks for visiting Slave Free Chocolate.  We are a grass roots organization with a simple mission.  Child slaves are being used to work and harvest cocoa on the farms in West Africa.  We thought this issue was resolved with the Harkin-Engel Protocol of 2001.  This protocol signed by all of the major importers and manufactures of cocoa called for a vast reduction in the problem by 2005 and another milestone in 2008.  Sadly, there is little evidence that anything has changed. Fortunately, media attention in 2007 has prompted some new action from the agencies involved. If we keep on top of this, it will make it harder for those involved to fade back into the woodwork when media attention dies out. Our mission is not to boycott cocoa or chocolate but to put pressure on the powers involved to implement what is already in place.