Stories from ICI
- Joseph: the Child Protection Champion23 August 2019Joseph Mensah is a forty-three-year-old cocoa farmer in the Eastern region. He is a member of ABOCFA, an organic cocoa producing cooperative. He was selected as an ambassador for education by Tony’s Chocolonely . He is also one of the Community Facilitators (CFs) leading the Tony’s Chocolonely Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation System in ABOCFA. As an Ambassador, his responsibility is to educate children and parents on the benefits of education in his community. As a CF, he creates awareness on child labour and collects data on the farmers and their families in his community. This yearRead more
- ABOCFA farmers take initiative to enforce child protection in their communities3 August 2019The members of ABOCFA, the organic cocoa farmers’ cooperative working with Tony’s Chocolonely and the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) to eliminate child labour from their farms, have come outRead more
- Commémoration de la lutte contre le travail des enfants : L'imagination des enfants mise en exergue25 July 2019"Si nous faisons travailler l'imagination des enfants, ceux-ci réussiront des choses inimaginables, une fois devenus adultes". Tel sont les propos tenus par l'honorable Babo Kesse Christelle, (représentante du parlement des enfants de Côte d'Ivoire), à l’occasion de la commémoration de la journée mondiale de lutte contre le travail qui s’est tenue, le 24 juillet dernier, à Abidjan en présence de nombreux acteurs qui luttent contre le travail des enfants et aussi des enfants de l'Ong " Art monde" qui ont fait montre de leur talent d'artiste .Read more
- Quality education and clean water for the children in Petit Sentier20 June 2019The children of the cocoa-growing community Petit Sentier (Méagui, Côte d'Ivoire) recently became the beneficiaries of a modern school granting them access to quality education.Read more
- ICI commissions new classroom block in Ankra Muanu17 June 201914th June, 2019 will forever be remembered as a great day in the lives of the people of the Ankra Muanu cocoa community. Parents, teachers and children there witnessed their chief, and other communityRead more
- Chasing dreams: The difference a little help can make in shaping a child's future12 June 2019It is early morning and we see a group of young adults hurrying off. Among them is Bernice, a young lady from Mehame, a cocoa community in Ghana. She is happy as her laughter is heard from a distanceRead more
- ICI awards four schools at 2019 WDACL commemoration ceremony12 June 2019The International Cocoa Initiative (ICI), today, awarded four schools from four cocoa-growing communities during the commemoration of the 2019 World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL). The schoolsRead more