The International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) has gone the next mile in its quest to end child labour in cocoa-growing communities in the country, specifically the Suhum municipality of the Eastern Region.
The ICI, with support from Tony’s Chocoloney, a chocolate manufacturing company in the Netherlands, has donated a total of 23 bicycles, a Honda motorbike, solar lamps, and chargers among other materials to Abocfa, a community-based cocoa farmers’ group at Kpankpan in the Suhum municipality.
The items are to enhance activities geared at tracking child labour cases in the cocoa-growing areas.
At a brief ceremony to hand over the items to the Abocfa executive for onward presentation to the field workers, Isaac Kweku Vifa, the Eastern regional Field Associate for the ICI, lauded Tony’s Chocoloney’s commitment in supporting the ICI to end child labour in cocoa-growing areas in Ghana.
The manager of Abocfa, Stephen Ashia, also thanked the ICI and Tony’s Chocoloney for the intervention and assured that the field workers would make good use of them to achieve the purpose for which they were given the bikes.
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
