WE'RE MOVING FARMS AND SCALING OUR IMPACT - HERE'S HOW.

A few years ago, we set out to do something radical: prove that chocolate can be made without child labour, and back it up with independent verification, not vague claims or pretty words.

For four years, we worked side by side with the NGO Slavefreetrade, building something that didn’t exist yet: a supply chain for chocolate that was visible, auditable, and ethical. It was experimental, it was ambitious, and it was a huge part of how UP-UP was born at our original farm in Necoclí, El Rosario.

So when Slavefreetrade shut its doors at the end of 2024, we didn’t lose the mission and we took it even further. We also made the move from El Rosario to El Paraíso in Casanare, a farm owned by our partner Luker Chocolate, giving us long-term stability, investment potential, and direct oversight.

We’re proud to share that our cocoa produced at the Luker Agricola site in Casanare is now verified child labour-free by Impactt, one of the most respected ethical trade verification bodies in the world. Their team recently conducted a fully unannounced, in-person audit of our single estate cocoa farm in Casanare, Colombia.

They assessed everything; wages, contracts, grievance mechanisms, working hours, health and safety, against the internationally recognised ETI Base Code. They spoke directly with workers and reviewed site documentation. The outcome: zero evidence of child labour. Full transparency. Full accountability.

We made the move because we’re not interested in token gestures; we’re building something to last.

This is just the beginning.

UP-UP is still made at origin, still B Corp certified, still obsessed with traceability, and still bold enough to say: chocolate shouldn’t come at someone else’s cost.

One farm, one mission, zero child labour.