Halloween 2009
Participate in the Third Annual Reverse Trick-or-Treating!
On Halloween night, schoolchildren, (& high school/college students, and adults) across the US and Canada will unite to help:
END poverty among cocoa farmers
END abusive child labor in the cocoa industry
PROMOTE Fair Trade
PROTECT the environment
by giving Fair Trade chocolate back to adults…while Trick-or-Treating door-to-door in their communities on Halloween.
The chocolate is attached to a card with information about social and environmental justice issues in the cocoa industry and how buying Fair Trade certified chocolate provides a solution.
Parents rave about how Reverse Trick-or-Treating transforms Halloween into a meaningful event when youth activists give back to their neighbors and to cocoa growing communities.
Reverse Trick-or-Treating kits are FREE
Thanks to the generous donations of Fair Trade chocolate companies
Equal Exchange, Alter Eco, Sweet Earth, and La Siembra (& others in Canada)
(Participants pay the cost of postage only.)
Participate as an individual or organize your classroom, school, congregation, youth group or social justice organization to participate by distributing multiple kits to participants!
DEADLINE TO REQUEST KITS:
Groups (schools, congregations, youth groups, etc): October 1
Individuals: October 13
Order yours TODAY! We always run out long before the deadline!
Join us, and together, we will reach nearly
a quarter million households this year!
Visit www.reversetrickortreating.org for more information!
If you choose not to request a kit, you can still participate by distributing flyers on Halloween! Visit the website for more information.
Looking for Fair Trade Halloween candy to distribute to kids at your door? Visit https://www.globalexchangestore.org/SearchResults.asp?Cat=263.
Reverse Trick-or-Treating is an initiative launched by the human rights organization Global Exchange in cooperation with Fair Trade company Equal Exchange and is a collaborative effort of countless children, youth, and adults supported by institutions including nonprofit organizations, faith-based organizations, Fair Trade companies, and schools.
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Thanks for your innovative idea and generosity! I’m sharing this in my newsletter.
We’ll do this in our neighborhood! I’m hoping I’ll get my youth group kids to participate as well.
Can’t wait to kick off this campaign during Halloween this year!
This is a wonderful idea, and nobody can spread a good idea faster than children. Halloween can attain a more positive image if this holiday is transformed into a celebration of children’s creativity and their potential to energize positive changes in the world.
I am a teacher in Henderson, NV, and a State Director with Not For Sale. It’s exciting to marry education and activism!