Ghislain (17)
When I was 15, I saw some men in my village who had come back from the Ivory Coast on shiny motorbikes. I heard they bought the bikes with money they’d earned on cocoa plantations.
I wanted a bike too so I decided to go there.
I spent everything I earned on food and the bus ticket home.
I still don’t have my bike.
Ghislain (17)
I still don’t have my bike.
Ghislain (17)
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.