News from ICI
- Côte d’Ivoire: ICI and Nestlé working to improve women’s incomes24 August 2016Motivated to help women in Ivorian cocoa communities to be financially independent by improving their income, ICI and Nestlé visited areas of joint intervention in mid-August. During this field mission, ICI and Nestlé gave away grinders to women’s groups and made a plea to local administrative authorities for the issuance of birth certificates to vulnerable children in cocoa communities. Mrs. Euphrasia Aka, National Coordinator of ICI, and Mrs. Mathilde Sokoty N ‘ Godo Koua, head of the fight against child labor at Nestlé, visited three women’s groups, the sub-prefectures of Aboisso, Divo andRead more
- ICI supports Best Rural Reporting with Focus on Ending Worst Forms of Child Labour at the 21st GJA Awards11 August 2016On the 5th of August in Accra, Ghana, leading child protection organization in the cocoa sector, International Cocoa Initiative, presented a cheque of GHS 10,000 to support the 2016 Ghana Journalists AssociationRead more
- Education and training : ICI opens bridging classes and literacy programs in Côte d’Ivoire11 August 2016The International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) has decided to create bridging classes for children out of the school system and literacy programs for illiterate adults in its intervention areas in Côte dRead more
- From one school to another: $1000 donation helps to improve a Ghanaian community’s education14 July 2016In 2015, sixth graders from the Montclair Kimberley Academy (MKA) in the US heard about the problem of child labour in cocoa farming. Moved by the realisation that children their own age were involved in the production of the chocolate they so enjoyed, the kids decided to mobilise.Read more
- Ending child labour in cocoa-growing is everyone's business10 June 2016The International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) today released its 2015 Annual Report, highlighting the organisations’ key achievements for last year and emphasising that successful approaches to tacklingRead more
- Child labour is an issue that won't be solved overnight31 May 2016In this article, ' Child labour: the issue that won't go away', the extent of child labour in cocoa farming is laid bare. It is a complex issue that is deeply rooted in poverty. Read the article hereRead more
- Monitoring and evaluation: First Action Plan for ECLIC project27 May 2016Following the launch ceremony May 19, 2016, the project Eliminating Child Labor In Cocoa (ECLIC), funded by the US Department of Labor and implemented by the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI), heldRead more