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"Kweku and the bird" is a 4-part 3D-animation series developed by the International Cocoa Initiative, a leading organization promoting child

Ebenezer Adjei is the son of a cocoa farmer and one of the beneficiaries of the Tony's Chocolonely Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation System (CLMRS) being implemented in partnership with ABOCFA, a cooperative of organic farmers in Suhum. Ebenezer tells us in this video how his educational life has improved after receiving a new bicycle.

In order to protect children in cocoa growing communities and tackle child labour, the International Cocoa Initiative has placed education at the heart of its interventions. Let's discover the stories of Emma, Guillaume and Jean-Marc, three children who were taken off cocoa farms and reintegrated into the Ivorian education system.

The International Cocoa Initiative, through its project ECLIC, established a savings & loans group in Ayaoukro, Côte d’Ivoire. The community members who are part of the group also receive support through literacy classes and income-generating activities.

The U.S. Department of Labor (USDoL) supports the International Cocoa Initiative through the "Eliminating Child Labour In Cocoa" (ECLIC) project so that it can assist children in its areas of intervention in Côte d'Ivoire. In this video, M. Paul Yeskoo, First Secretary of the United States Embassy in Côte d'Ivoire and Acting Head of Mission, talks about the project and the collaboration with ICI.

In this episode, we learn that children should not engage in dangerous child labour and even if they perform light tasks for the household, these shouldn’t be done at the expense of going to school. Kweku, a boy of 12, is cutting down a tree when Mr Dubango, the teacher protects him from the falling tree; he then explains the type of work which is forbidden for children to do and mentions the light work which children can do only outside school hours. The episode ends with Kweku joining his classmates after a long period of absence due to the fact that he was helping his father on the cocoa farm.