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alt="Fight child labor!"
src="http://www.fairtradesports.com/wp-content/images/nochildlaborkiss.jpg"/>As
we mentioned earlier, the International
Labor Rights Fund
held a href="http://www.laborrights.org/projects/childlab/essaycontestwinners.htm">contest for students over the Easter |
Passover holiday to speak out against child labor in the cocoa industry
through essays and art.

The winners received a fairly
traded youth soccer ball.



Congratulations to the winning students, and thank you to everyone who
entered!


First prize: Third to
Fifth Grade color="#ff0000">
target="_blank">Be Concerned by Naomi Smith


Runners
Up:

• target="_blank">Child Labor in the Chocolate Industry by Elizabeth Marie Pautsch
• target="_blank">Why Buy the Chocolate of Slavery? by Emily Winn

First prize: Sixth to Eighth Grade
target="_blank">Cool to be Cruel? by Olivia
Coraggio


Runners Up:

• target="_blank">Save the Kids! by Emanuelle Rodrigues
• target="_blank">No Child Labor! by Marirose Brown

First
Prize: High School color="#ff0000">
target="_blank">Youth and Fair Trade Chocolate by
Ethan Miller



Runners
Up:

• target="_blank">Equity and Fair Trade by Mariko Powers
• target="_blank">Not So Sweet by Caroline Fay

Art
Winners color="#ff0000">: Pete Kostopanagiotis, Ariel Ore, Juliam
Rodriguez, Devin Williams