This is Sidie.

He is a cocoa farmer from Sierra Leone in West Africa.

Sidie grows cocoa beans.

Chocolate is made from cocoa beans!

Sidie works with his family to pick pods from cocoa trees.

The beans inside the pod are very important.

Sidie sells the beans that get made into chocolate.

Fairtrade makes sure farmers like Sidie are paid fairly for their hard work.

The weather is changing.
Sometimes it rains too much and sometimes it doesn’t rain.

This is climate change.

Changing weather can destroy the cocoa trees.

When the pods turn black the cocoa beans cannot be sold.

Less cocoa beans means less money.

Fairtrade makes sure farmers get paid fairly.

So they can look after their families. And their cocoa trees.

Choosing Fairtrade makes a difference to the lives of farmers and the planet that we share.