25 The Hershey Company | 2021 ESG Report Cocoa The Big Picture Our Company Cocoa Responsible Sourcing and Human Rights Environment Our People Youth Community About This Report We also support the establishment of How CLMRS Is Helping Keep Kids Safe community-level child protection committees. Composed of trusted community members, these groups are in the best position to raise awareness, identify cases of child labor and The report implement the most appropriate practices is verified to remediate those cases. Depending on the type of child labor detected, remediation Any child involved support is conducted at the child, household in hazardous activity is 3 or community level. identified and information The data is used Successful child labor remediation strategies vary about his/her situation to design actions and need to respond to the needs of individual is recorded in a 2 4 in support of children and their families. They may also be centralized database children identified dependent upon the presence of government social welfare agencies to which cases can be referred for additional follow-up by local authorities. By increasing farmers’ awareness of what constitutes child labor (such as children carrying heavy loads and being exposed to farm Community Children and their pesticides) and improving farmers’ and families’ facilitators families receive ease and efficiency of completing tasks around visit every farm 1 5 remediation support the farm, children are less likely to participate in assigned to their from supply chain dangerous farm tasks. farmer group facilitators and NGO partners or are referred To see our key performance metrics to public services, from the year, see page 31. an approach that is aligned with practices recommended by the ILO What’s Next We will continue to invest funds to improve the quality of CLMRS and to expand it with the aim of ensuring that no child is overlooked, and everyone receives the support they need. Our CLMRS covered 62% of Hershey cocoa volumes, on the way to achieving our goal of 100% by 2025. As of 2021, Hershey’s CLMRS 62% found no evidence of forced child labor in our programs in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Almost of Hershey cocoa volumes 2,000 children were either remediated or have are covered by CLMRS aged out of the CLMRS.