How You Can Help
Each day, several million hardworking farmers take to the cocoa fields to carefully tend to their cocoa trees and harvest the crop. Millions more depend upon their success.
These farmers are dedicated, hardworking and passionate about growing the cocoa that makes the chocolate loved by so many worldwide. But they face tremendous challenges. They need help.
The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) works to help cocoa farmers, their families and their communities. WCF programs are helping cocoa farmers earn more for their crop, improving the quality of education for their children, and ensuring that cocoa is grown in a safe, responsible manner.
And, with your support, the WCF can do more.
Whether it’s raising awareness or providing support for a WCF program, you can make a difference in the lives of hard-working farming families who depend upon cocoa for their livelihood.
- Learn how you can educate others on this how to help cocoa farmers
- Learn how you can support the World Cocoa Foundation’s global efforts
How ordinary people are help cocoa farmers
- As a class project, Ms. Concetta Gladden’s 5th grade class decided to learn more about where chocolate comes from. As they studied the history of cocoa, they began to learn about the lives of cocoa farming families, the challenges they face and what’s being done to help them.
Together, the students decided to do something about it: they organized a fundraising event, raised $240.57 dollars and made a contribution to the World Cocoa Foundation. - Through individual contributions, the World Cocoa Foundation was able to help The Tetteh-Quarshie Educational Fund with the construction and equipment of a computer center in Mampong Akuapem in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Learning to use computers and connecting to the internet to find more about other places in the world is now possible for children attending the center.
If you like chocolate and care about the people who help bring it to you, supporting the WCF is a great way to make a difference.
To learn more, contact Bill Guyton: bill.guyton@worldcocoa.org