In West Africa, cacao farmers are very poor because cacao beans are sold at low prices.
So,many parents cannot even send their children to school.
They often make their children work on
cacao farms to earn more money for the family.
According to UNICEF, the number of uch childrenis about 50,000.
Moreover, the children working on the farms do heavy physical labor.
For example, they carry twenty-kilogram baskets full of cacao beans on their heads all day long.
It is ironic that most Of them do not know what the beans are for.
They ave never eaten chocolate in their lives.