YA-YA Basics
This is what YA-YA stands for.
What is Youth Activists-Youth Allies?
The two main ingredients found in ALL types of chocolate bars.
What are cocoa and sugar?
Ya-Ya Network fights for an end to this "pipeline" that pushes students out of schools and into the criminal justice system
What is the School-to-Prison Pipeline?
This U.S. state is the nation's leading producer of chocolate, thanks to a famous candy company.
What is Pennsylvania?
The Co-Directors of YA-YA Network
Who are Raúl and Amy?
This rich, intense type of chocolate must contain a high percentage of cocoa solids and little to no sugar.
What is dark chocolate (or bittersweet chocolate)?
This is the small but powerful group of core student activists fighting to abolish police and metal detectors in schools
What is Action Committee?
This European country is famous for its smooth, creamy milk chocolate.
What is Switzerland?
According to its mission, YA-YA advances this as a strategy for youth development and social transformation.
What is Youth Organizing?
This type of chocolate is made with cocoa butter, sugar, and milk solids, but NO cocoa solids.
What is white chocolate?
YA-YAs were among the first to bring this method of challenging ICE to NYC.
What are whistle campaigns?
This country, with its capital at Quito, produces some of the world's most sought-after fine aroma cacao.
What is Ecuador?
Becoming a monthly donor
How can YOU support YA-YA Network?
The process of heating and cooling chocolate to specific temperatures to give it a shiny finish and a satisfying snap.
What is tempering?
YA-YAs organize, lobby and testify about the importance of funding this collaborative process of community healing rather than punishment.
What is Restorative Justice?
This West African country is taking significant steps to process more cocoa locally, which is key to farmers retaining more value
What is Côte d'Ivoire (or Ivory Coast)?
YA-YA was founded in this year,and evolved from a small project into an independent nonprofit.
What is 1998?
The scientific name for the tree chocolate comes from, Theobroma cacao, means "Food of the" whom?
Who are the gods? (Food of the Gods)
This is the name of the lawsuit we won that affirms the right to protest outside of public schools.
What is YA-YA Network v. NYPD?
In this African country, members of the Kuapa Kokoo cooperative of over 100,000 farmers share in the profits from the finished chocolate, giving them a powerful voice and a direct stake in the industry.
What is Ghana?