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Endangered Species Chocolate’s all-natural milk and dark chocolate originates in Nigeria on small, family-owned farms. In addition to paying a fair wage for this single-origin chocolate, Endangered Species Chocolate is committed to supporting these workers and their communities.
In partnership with Saro Agro Science, six scholarships will be granted to the top students in the Ikom region of Nigeria in 2007. The money will be used to purchase school books, supplies and uniforms.
Also in 2007, Wayne Zink and Randy Deer, owners of Endangered Species Chocolate, are sponsoring a participant in the Uromi Medical Mission, a program of The Mercy Foundation. Each year The Mercy Foundation travels to Uromi Nigeria for 10 days to operate medical clinics benefiting rural villages in Nigeria.
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With the company's core value – Reverence for Life – on their minds, four team members from Endangered Species Chocolate traveled to Nigeria on Feb. 3, 2006, to document ethically traded farming practices in the villages where our all-natural cacao is harvested. Our team visited the villages of Etung L.G.A. and Bendeghe Ekiem in the Ikom region of Nigeria, which is located about 30 miles west of the Cameroon border.
While in Nigeria, the Endangered Species Chocolate team was able to witness the harvest and procurement of all-natural cocoa by adult workers being paid a fair wage in humane working conditions. As part of the Nigerian experience – and further underscoring the company's mission – our team dedicated water pumps and educational materials to the villages near the farms. Through our export partner, Saro Agroallied Ltd., Endangered Species Chocolate contributed more than $52,000 to purchase and install heavy-duty UNICEF filtered water pumps and supply much needed school textbooks, desks, chairs and chalkboards to more than 4,000 schoolchildren in Etung L.G.A. and Bendeghe Ekiem.
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