Being at Bioneers has been an amazing experience! But before this phenominal conference began, a few of our Girls Club staff, visited a couple of women empowered organizations. We ventured to Global Exchange and Code Pink, which were based in the same building.

While at Global Exchange, we watched about fifteen minutes of a documentary that interviewed people who picked chocolate beans in farms in Africa. The environment that the workers are in, is borderline slavery: the workers are constantly beaten, they are not payed for their time picking the chocolate, and spend countless hours in the excruciating hot sun. The chocolate beans that are picked in these slave farms, are sent to factories that are owned by big chocolate bar companies such as Nestle! DAMN THEM!!! These inhuman treatments of people are unbelievable and is a gigantic step backwards in the fight for equality. After watching just a couple of minutes of the video, I have decided to not consume any chocolate bars unless they are branded with the fair-trade logo. Fair trade is ensuring that a product is produced humanly, ethically, and environmentally.