Introducing 'UP-UP' Chocolate!
Handing them the MIC to talk you through it....
OUR COCOA IS THE 1ST IN THE WORLD TO BE CERTIFIED SLAVE-FREE BY NGO SLAVEFREETRADE.ORG
Four years ago we realised that while there are brilliant brands working towards a slave free chocolate industry, they weren’t using cocoa that was truly certified as slave free. And we don’t mean self certified. We mean certified, rigorously, by a totally independent third party. So we set out to find one.
Slavefreetrade was set up in 2018 by Brian Iselin, a former soldier and federal agent, with extensive background in conducting counter- trafficking and modern slavery operations worldwide. Together with slavefreetrade, we set about turning the chocolate industry upside down. More about slavefreetrade.org
There’s the plantation, the processing site and our factory. Three workplaces, that’s it. That’s very unusual. Layers and layers of people and interests. High chance that transparency, traceability and trust are lost. In minimising the supply chain, we create room for transparency. In inviting slavefreetrade to hold us to account, quarterly, we uncover how each and every individual are treated, knowhow they’re paid, & can be sure it’s fair and honest.
Using a survey based on slavefreetrade’s Ten Principles for Decent Work we invite every single person in our supply chain to assess their working conditions against international human rights law.
When the industry talks about traceability they mean the raw commodity. We mean the people. 200 on the single-estate plantation, 2000 in the processing site, 20 in our factory. This is a world’s first human first chocolate.