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Vignettes Sweet Success Congo Initiative Theo Chocolate and the Eastern team up to change the lives of tens of thousands in a war-torn African nation // By Heidi Coryell Williams T ThE smAll, EvErgrEEn CoCoA PlAnT is a delicate crop to tend, with its bean-like seedpods that provide the source for all things chocolate. The people of eastern Congo share the cocoa crop's fragile state, as their homeland slowly emerges from decades of civil war and terrorism. It seems ftting that a chocolate bar might, hot chocolate // Theo Chocolate bars, available in some small way, be able to help rebuild this in dark chocolate favors region, one precious seedpod at a time. like vanilla nib and the Seattle-based Theo Chocolate will export more surprisingly heat-inducing than 300 tons of organic Fair Trade Certifed Pili Pili Chili, not only cocoa from the Congolese communities. That raise awareness of the cocoa will then be used to make some of Theo eastern Congolese people's Chocolate's unique chocolate bars, now available plight, they prompt action. at Whole Foods stores nationwide. The charge on every From a store shelf, it's nearly impossible to chocolate bar wrapper, understand how a single bar of chocolate could "Act, Heal, Rebuild," is actually make a difference. But the economic juxtaposed with colorful opportunity offered by this cocoa bean export is African-inspired artwork. signifcant, reports the Eastern Congo Initiative, Organic, free of genetically a nonproft working to rebuild this nation. It not modifed ingredients, and only provides income and economic opportunity certifed Fair Trade, these for struggling farmers, it provides training for confections are designed to Congolese farmers to grow even healthier, more appeal to our wholesome, nutritious subsistence crops that can then be altruistic side. Decadence used to feed the people of eastern Congo. has never felt so fulflling. Eastern Congo became a refuge for feeing For more information, Rwandans during the mid-1990s, when visit theochocolate.com. genocide and war killed more than 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. In the years that followed, a new government was created in Rwanda, prompting millions more to fee. A peace treaty now exists, but intervention efforts in eastern Congo are ongoing, in an effort to bring stability to the region. Theo Chocolate's cocoa purchase is estimated to have already impacted more than 20,000 Congolese people. Household incomes in the region already are rising for farmers and their employees; children have improved access to education and health care; and most important, it has provided hope for a better future where none existed before. P h o t o g r a P h s ( a b o v e ) C o u r t e s y o f t h e o C h o C o l at e ; C h o C o l at e b a r s , P h o t o g r a P h b y Pa u l M e h a f f e y Spring 2013 . Tempus-Magazine.com 23