Augustin (16)
I worked on my father’s cocoa plantation. He was trying to build a livelihood, but he died before he was able to.
My mother took us back to Burkina Faso. I don’t know what happened to my father’s plantation. We don’t get any money from it anyway.
To children around the world: if you get the chance to go to school, take it. It is a sort of guarantee for a child.
Augustin (16)
Augustin (16)
13 Oct - 22 Nov 2017
Beurs van Berlage
Amsterdam
Beurs van Berlage
Amsterdam
Who are the children who harvest the cocoa for our chocolate in West Africa? What was their life like? What dreams about the future do they cherish? Fifteen of them tell their stories in this exhibition.
For every ticket of the exhibition or copy of the book sold, a contribution will be made to GRADE-FRB’s rehabilitation shelter for former child labourers.
For every ticket of the exhibition or copy of the book sold, a contribution will be made to GRADE-FRB’s rehabilitation shelter for former child labourers.
Bitter Chocolate Stories is a Paradox production in collaboration with: Joana Choumali (photography), Marijn Heemskerk (texts), GRADE-FRB and Tony’s Chocolonely. Design: Kummer & Herrman.