Lindt, Mondelēz, and Nestlé together raked in nearly $4 billion in profits from chocolate sales in 2023. Hershey’s confectionary profits totaled $2 billion last year.
The four corporations paid out on average 97 percent of their total net profits to shareholders in 2023.
The collective fortunes of the Ferrero and Mars families, who own the two biggest private chocolate corporations, surged to $160.9 billion during the same period. This is more than the combined GDPs of Ghana and Ivory Coast, which supply most cocoa beans.
Decades of low prices have made farmers poorer and hampered their ability to hire workers or invest in their farms, limiting bean yield. Old cocoa trees are particularly vulnerable to disease and extreme weather. Many farmers are abandoning cocoa for other crops, or selling their land to illegal miners.
im trying to untangle the knot of applying for unemployment and god knows how long thatll take and im really desperate for any help you can send my way
Every day is a living nightmare filled with fear and uncertainty that doesn’t end when we wake. The horrors of displacement, violence, and unimaginable suffering have become our daily reality, and we live in constant fear that each day could be our last, Don’t hesitate to help
Donate if you can and share widely please
Donations have stopped, we are more than half now, there is not much left
Please don’t ignore and help me to save my family🙏
Hey guys. I’ve been talking to Eman and following her fundraiser for a while. I’ve seen it really stagnate after passing the halfway mark. She still needs help. Her family still need help. And with your help they can evacuate and try to build anew while waiting for the situation in Sudan to improve.
No state has a “right to exist”. The purpose of institutions is to serve human beings, and if your institution is slaughtering human beings en masse then it must be stopped. The survival of the institution itself in this scenario is of almost no import.
Since October 7, our lives have been turned upside down. The situation in Gaza has become unbearable. My family was forced to flee our home in Al-Nasr Street after receiving threats from the Israeli military. Under the relentless rain of bullets and shelling, my wife and children walked 8 kilometers along Salah Al-Din Street to escape to southern Gaza. I can still hear my five-year-old son Zain’s cries, “Get us out of here, Daddy. We are dying."Their journey through the escape routes was a harrowing experience. My children witnessed unimaginable horrors—bodies lying in the streets, homes reduced to rubble, and the constant fear of being targeted. They saw death at every corner, and their innocent eyes have been scarred forever. Their spirits, once filled with joy and laughter, are now weighed down by the heavy burden of trauma and fear.They initially found refuge in a UNRWA school in Khan Younis, but it quickly became unsafe. They were instructed to move to Rafah, where they now live in a makeshift tent next to a wall, with the ground as their bed and the sky as their blanket, lacking basic necessities like medicine, water, and food.
Hey guys, Youssef Helles is trying to evacuate his family of six from Rafah, please help him out!!!
He moved to Belgium in 2019 to work and help support his family better financially and hasn’t seen them all since, including his youngest son Zain who was born after he left, and has as such never met in person at All
As of june 28th, he has only been able to raise €1,556 raised of €23,000 goal
Please don’t let them down, he needs your help to reunite with his family!!! please share, donate and follow Youssef’s blog for direct updates on his situation!!!!
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