Education | ICI Cocoa Initiative

Education

Improving literacy amongst children: Helping cocoa growing communities thrive

5 September 2023

Education has long been considered an essential remedy to combating child labour, but even if a school is nearby, children cannot study as they should without the necessary school supplies. In Anyeme

Empowering young people to build stronger futures in cocoa-growing communities

Kouamé Koffi Arsène is a hardworking young man from Belle-ville in Cote d'Ivoire who applied for a job as a Facilitator at the Child Friendly Spaces

Kouakou Ahou Charlotte, apprentie couturière à Soubré

Nous vous invitons à suivre cette belle histoire, pleine d'enseignements, de courage et d'espoir, de Charlotte, jeune maman d'un enfant de plus d'un

Apparagra: Barry Callebaut and The Hershey Company build a playground for primary school children

In Divo, Côte d’Ivoire, at the Apparagra Public Primary School, Barry Callebaut and Hershey’s provided new playground equipment, a first for many

Apparagra: Barry Callebaut and The Hershey Company build a playground for primary school children

Located 25km from Hiré in Divo, Côte d’Ivoire, at the Apparagra Public Primary School, pupils play in the schoolyard, using the new equipment installed by the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI)

Empowering the youth through apprenticeships: Luwis' story

ICI commissions sanitation facilities in schools

Two sanitation facilities have been commissioned in Anwona and Ayokoa, two cocoa-growing communities in Adansi Asokwa district in the Ashanti region of Ghana. Funded by Nestle and implemented by the

Protective Community Index

Child protection: New school infrastructure in Daloa, Soubré and Divo

ICI and Cargill handed over the keys to two schools in the Lakota department of Côte d’Ivoire on May 17. At the ceremony, the schools, one of which was completely renovated and includes 9 classrooms

Child Friendly Spaces: Motivating out-of school children to rejoin the school system

After a year of participating in activities at the Child Friendly Space (CAE) in Biakou, under the supervision of specialised facilitators, brothers, Eric and Dominique Kambou, have started attending

Subscribe to Education