An estimated 168 million children between the ages of 5-17 are currently engaged in some form of slavery globally, with millions subjected to bonded labor, child soldiering, and sexual exploitation. Of those, 1.48 million childrenwork under dangerous conditions on cocoa farms in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire, two countries that supply a combined 60% of the world’s cocoa beans, alone. Furthermore, between 2013 and 2017, over 1,000 children working in cocoa agriculture in areas of medium and high cocoa production were victims of forced labor at the hands of someone outside their family, often as victims of child trafficking. Still, this number fails to account for the thousands of children forced into labor by their parents and other relatives. Working on plantations that supply transnational companies such as Nestlé, Mars, Cargill, and Hershey, children in the cocoa industry are overworked, brutally treated, and often deprived of their education.