News from ICI
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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 United States Department of Labor (USDoL), ECLIC recently constructed schools equipped with solar panels providing access to electricity and drinking water, to the communities of Jeannotkro, Gligbeuadji and Kamiadji, in the Doba Sub-Prefecture; Sinikosson in the sub-prefecture of Ouyably-Gnondrou; Ipouba in the sub-prefecture of Gbapleu; and Kouadiobakro in the sub-prefecture of Méagui. To equip theRead 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
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IGA: ECLIC project provides equipment to women and youth group3 August 2018"It wasn’t easy for me because there were a lot of obstacles... We, the women, received a tricycle this morning and the youth received a freezer with a generator to start selling frozen fish. I'm soRead more
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Risk of forced labour in cocoa present in both Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire: 2018 global slavery index20 July 2018The Walk Free Foundation, an Australian organisation dedicated to ending contemporary slavery and human trafficking, issued the 2018 version of their “ Global Slavery Index” on 19 July 2018. The indexRead more