Meet the Mother behind your chocolate…
Mothering Sunday takes place on the fourth weekend of Lent, and it’s a day where millions of people will celebrate their mothers – often with a gift involving chocolate. But behind the gifts are mothers across the world whose income depends on that same chocolate.
Women like Agnes: mother, foster mother and grandmother from Mababu in rural Tanzania. She supports her family through cocoa farming.
This Mother’s Day, we’re asking you to take the opportunity to make DOUBLE the difference for women like Agnes* working hard to build a bright future for their families?
Agnes’ story shows the power of a fair trade businesses to change lives, and build secure futures. She’s part of a farmer owned cocoa business, Mababu Cocoa. She explains,
“I have four children, – two in school, one at college, and one is married. I also have foster children and grandchildren.
My husband died in 2017, leaving one acre of cocoa, I have extended cocoa farming myself by increasing 2.5 acres, currently I have 3.5 acres.
When I sell through Mababu, I get much money at once, which helps me to pay school fees. It’s quite different from selling to the middlemen where I usually got very little. It did not help me at all.
Success for me is sending my children to school, I could not manage that without cocoa. I even constructed this house through cocoa. Without Mababu I would not have managed this.”
Photo credit: Transform Trade/Michael Goima
Mababu Cocoa is one of the amazing fair trade producer businesses that Transform Trade supports. They have big plans – to expand their work, and focus on adding value to farmers crops through processing them into products like cocoa nibs or powders. This will help famers like Agnes keep a greater share of the profits from their cocoa crops.
But they need your help.
This Mother's day weekend, will you make an investment in Mababu’s future – DOUBLED UNTIL 11th APRIL – to help mother’s like Agnes to get a fair deal from their hard work?