Elvis - Ghana

In His Own Words

Two years ago Elvis' family were so poor that they couldn't afford to eat properly. Now, they own a multi-national business!

"My parents are cocoa farmers but they could never sell the beans for enough money to buy all the food and clothes our family needed. I was often too hungry to concentrate at school so I would come home in the middle of the day and not go back."

Thanks to you, that's all changed now that their farm is part of the Kuapa Kokoo Cooperative. This means that they get paid a fair price for their cocoa and it gets used to make delicious fair-trade chocolate bars like Dubble.

"The farmers like my dad partly own the Co-operative and they have a say about how it spends its profits. It has built the school I now go to and has made sure all the children have pens, desks and books"

Your money helped start the Cooperative and there are now 45,000 families like Elvis' who are members of it. His dad says they now have a chance to work their way out of the poverty they've lived in for so long, all thanks to the Kuapa Kokoo company.

He should know, he owns it.

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