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How new desks can improve education in local community

19 December 2016

Georgina Donkor, headmistress of Nsata Subriso primary school in Ghana, explains how new classroom desks can help rural communities.

Barry Callebaut sets 2025 target for sustainable cocoa

24 November 2016

Barry Callebaut, the world's largest cocoa and chocolate processor, has pledged to lift 500,000 farmers out of extreme poverty and eradicate child labour from its supply chain under an initiative to

Nestlé and ICI open new school in community of Kouaho Koutouankro

1 November 2016

In late September 2016, Nestlé and ICI launched a new school in the community of Kouaho Koutouankro, Cote d'Ivoire. Here Aka N’Gouan Philippe, director of the old community school, and Yves Konin, a member of a local cooperative, explain how the new school will help their community and ensure a better future.

World Cocoa Foundation meeting: ICI participates in the 28th meeting of the WCF partners

1 November 2016

On 26 and 27 October, ICI participated in the 28th meeting of the World Cocoa Foundation’s partners across various panel discussions. The theme of the first panel was: “What is the sector’s situation

Women's leadership in Cocoa Life communities

27 October 2016

On behalf of Mondelēz International, CARE International conducted an assessment of Cocoa Life women's empowerment efforts in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. CARE’s assessment, commissioned by Mondelēz

Nestlé develops new actions to empower rural women in cocoa

17 October 2016

Through its partner ICI, Nestlé decided to support thirty nine new rural women’s organizations by implementing income generating activities in 2016. This support is part of the empowerment initiatives

Nestlé and ICI improve access to education for cocoa farmers’ children

On September 28, 2016, ICI and its partner Nestlé, symbolically opened a newly built school of seven classrooms. Cocoa growing communities in the department of Aboisso were also supplied with 331

ICI trains its industry partners in Ghana

Sustainable cocoa farming implies that producers, their families, and the wider cocoa growing community around them use modern labour practices that are safer and do not involve the use of child

Community service groups help farmers and increase child protection

27 September 2016

Over the past five months, cocoa farmers in 15 cocoa growing communities in the Ashanti region of Ghana, have been benefitting from the services of volunteers at affordable prices. Called Community

Cargill supports global efforts to tackle child labour

23 September 2016

On 21 September 2016 a new global alliance was launched at the UN General Assembly with the mission to end forced labor, modern slavery, human trafficking and child labor. Alliance 8.7 was created to