Costume-clad UW-Madison students participated in a ""Reverse Trick-or-Treat"" Friday to hand out fair trade chocolates to homes and inform residents about fair trade issues.
WISPIRG's Fair Trade Campaign organized the event and worked with the Reverse Trick-or-Treating campaign, a national project started by human rights group Global Exchange.
The campaign tried to deliver 100,000 chocolates to households across the nation, according to a statement.
Cards attached to the candies had information about human rights violations on cocoa farms and environmental and poverty issues stemming from cocoa production.
Fair trade organizations have been working to persuade U.S.-based chocolate companies to gain Fair Trade certification, the statement said. European-based chocolate companies Cadbury and and Nestle obtained Fair Trade certification for one of their products in 2009.
Fair trade businesses Equal Exchange, Sweet Earth and Coco-Zen donated the chocolates.
