They say that diamonds are a girl’s best friend but I beg to differ ...

There is nothing more delicious than savouring the taste of good chocolate, the soft crackling taste of divine deliciousness!

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It has the power to change our whole world … our emotional state and unfortunately our weight!

But what if the chocolate that you eat had the potential  to be the friend that always makes you feel great without the pressing thoughts of scales, measuring tapes and your old pair of  jeans that has become your ultimate goal and your secret  new year’s resolution.

Well, I think that I might have found the answer.

Cocoafair is the first organic bean to bar factory in Africa meaning that there was delicate artistry used to produce this beautiful packaged product without harming Mother Nature.

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Their aim is to base their company on social entrepreneurship using innovative business practices to create sustainable solutions to pressing social problems such as poverty.

They carefully consider the effects of purchasing conditions.  They support long-term partnerships with farmers that leads to economic stability for their families, which in turn improves access to education by allowing children to stay in school instead of work, leads to increased food stability and healthy nutrition as a result of providing stable incomes, and creates opportunities for farmers to invest in equipment and other resources that help their businesses grow.

Girls I don’t know if your mothers told you this but knowing all of this… a chocolate a day keeps the doctor away!

Cocoafair also run community projects such as the Children’s Recycled Tube Art Project. A project that was inspired by factory’s throwing away thick cardboard tubes. Cocoafair repurposes them into packaging for chocolates by having local school children decorate the tubes as an art project. Cocoafair provides non toxic paints and brushes and donate the profits back to local schools.

Moyo supports cocoafair by purchasing their products for their Blouberg, Spier and Zoo Lake shops. “Soul” meets “soul”. The African story starts with sugar from Mozambique and cocoa beans from Ghana.

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This is certainly a mouthful, but a mouthful of deliciousness, down to the core good chocolate! Helping humanity and Mother Nature – I have already thrown away the scale, measuring tape and those haunting jeans … they were old anyway!

'Till next time CarmenD