Human Trafficing: The Dark Side Of Chocolate

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A social issue that really drove me to make a change in my life is Human Trafficking. As an American student, I was taught at a very young age that slavery ended with the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments of the Constitution. However, I went to a showing of a documentary called “The Dark Side Of Chocolate,” which delved into how our chocolate was actually made going all the way from bean to bar. It moved me so much that my muscles ached to take action, but I had no idea how to change something that not many people knew about and that was happening all over the world. These large corporations were taking advantage of children blindly and I couldn’t do a thing about it… until I was taught about Fair Trade and The Polaris Project and many more communities

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