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Chocolate

Chocolate

This gift gives budding cocoa growers everything from seeds to tools, training to marketing advice, and even helps establish cocoa-growers’ co-ops.

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The ideal gift for the chocoholic in your life, bar none - helping a budding cocoa grower to succeed! We'll give them everything from cocoa seeds to tools, training to marketing advice, even helping to establish a cocoa-growers’ co-operative so everyone gets more of the benefits. Sweet.

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This gift supports our livelihoods (LH) projects.

Delivery & returns

All gifts are sent by 1st class post within 3 working days of when you place your order.  An optional delivery contribution of £1.70  per order for deliveries within the UK will be suggested during checkout, to help us cover costs. You can pay the suggested amount, increase or decrease your contribution, or pay nothing at all. You choose.

If you're in a hurry you can also send a gift E-card, at no extra cost, which will be sent as soon as you place your order. 

Please note that Oxfam Unwrapped gifts count as a donation, so our no quibble returns policy does not apply, and under Charity Commission rules, we are unable to give you a refund.

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When you buy an Oxfam Unwrapped gift you can be confident that the real gift will be sent to where it's needed most.   

We will send you (or your friend or family member if you prefer) a gift card that tells them what they've been bought and how it will help to improve someone's life.  You can add little extras during checkout, which are posted at the same time.

You'll be given the opportunity to customise your gift card or E-card during checkout and specify your delivery details. 


Chocolate

This gift in action

In the border region between Petén, Guatemala and Belize a high percentage of the indigenous Mayan population live in extreme poverty. But thanks to a healthy dose of chocolate, the situation is beginning to change. Oxfam has provided seeds, tools and training to help local cocoa farmers. In addition to business training, small-scale farmers have also learned about organic growing – techniques which they have also successfully applied to their other fruit crops while they wait for their cocoa trees to mature. And Oxfam has helped out here too. While cocoa takes up to four years before it begins to generate an income, the community has been trained in grafting techniques that reduce the growth process by 12 months whilst maintaining crop quality. It’s an outcome appreciated by farmers like Juan de Dios Ramirez: “The cocoa farming will increase our income and improve our family’s lives – we will eat better and have better conditions.” Famers will also have the money to reinvest in tools and seeds for the future, which in Juan’s case is looking bright. “We have an agreement with a major chocolate company that when our cocoa is ready we will have a five-year deal to supply them with our cocoa. I hope that Oxfam will continue to support us. I still need training so that I can share my knowledge with other communities.”

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