News from ICI
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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 apprenticeship programme. Diana tells us about their ordeal and the changes which have come into the life of her family since 2017. “My husband is a cobbler in Ejisu but he lost his job and had to return to the village. In addition to this, we had no buyers for the cassavas and maize we planted. This resulted in serious financial problems for the family, which was compounded by the fact that we don’t own farmlandRead more
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Growing vegetables means more income, diversified livelihoods and better protected children14 August 2018Joseph Oppong lives in Bekwai, Adankragya. He is a 60 year old cocoa farmer with 5 children. His eldest child is in the Training College and the youngest is in Junior High School form 1. Joseph is oneRead more