Milk Chocolate with Hazelnuts 46g Peace by Chocolate is a Syrian-Canadian company, based in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. Prior to being forced to flee from Syria during the country's civil war in 2012, the company's CEO and Founder Tareg Hadhad's father, Essam Hadhad made chocolate in Damascus, Syria for over 20 years. After immigrating to Nova Scotia in 2016, Tareq Hadhad reopened the family's chocolatier business. Nitap Bars are a fundraising project made in collaboration with and endorsed by the Paq'tnkek Band Council of the Paq'tnkek Mi'kmaw Nation, located just east of Peace By Chocolate in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.Profits from Nitap (the Mi'kmaw word for "friend" or "buddy") Bars help fund indigenous nitap programming that highlights, celebrates, and helps keep alive important Mi'kmaw community traditions such as drumming, dancing, basket weaving, and elder story telling, as well as traditional outdoor skills like fishing, hunting, canoeing, and tipi rituals. $0.25 cents from every sale is donated.
