News from ICI
- Empowering girls with skills for a brighter future11 October 2018We have facilitated community development actions such as the construction of schools and the setting up of income generating activities for parents to ensure that they can provide for the needs of their children. We also provide direct support to children – for instance, educational support for those in school and the opportunity to enrol in apprenticeship programmes for those between 15 to 17 years.Read more
- A brighter future for Augustina11 October 2018Diana Mawusi is a mother of seven children living in Mehame, a cocoa-growing community in the Asanti Region. Her eldest child, Augustina Brago is a beneficiary of the ICI supported apprenticeshipRead more
- Nestlé advances actions to curb child labour in cocoa in Ashanti Region26 September 2018The Cocoanect co untry Representative, Marjolijn Hekelaah, handing over a school bag to a child The remediation element of the Nestle Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation System (CLMRS) wasRead more
- Quality education and drinking water: Key for ensuring children have better chances in future24 September 2018Quality education is a viable alternative and remedy to child labour. ICI's ECLIC project makes sure the children from 50 cocoa-growing communities have access to schooling. Funded by the UnitedRead more
- How good infrastructure can increase children's interest in education5 September 2018Education serves as one of the best preventive measures of remediating children from child labour and promoting a safer environment to facilitate child protection. As part of ICI’s interventions inRead more
- How rice cultivation helps reduce child labour in Ghana5 September 2018ICI, through our work in the communities have come to see the impossibility of eliminating child labour without elevating poverty because it is one of the major causes of child labour.Read more
- ICI at the European Parliament hearing on child labour in cocoa17 August 2018On 11 July 2018, the European Parliament’s Committee on Development and the Subcommittee on Human Rights held a joint hearing on cocoa and coffee entitled " Cocoa and Coffee – devastating rainforestRead more