ACE has officially launched our "ACE Holiday Giving 2025" campaign on GlobalGiving to support children in cocoa-growing communities in Ghana. Through this winter initiative, we aim to create better opportunities for children and families affected by child labour in the cocoa industry. In Ghana, many children are still unable to attend school due to economic hardship at home. To address this challenge, ACE provides support in two key areas: What Your Support Makes Possible 📚

Hello everyone! My name is Mizuki Mori, India Project Manager. Thank you very much for your warm support for ACE's activities. ACE, together with our local partner organization SPEED, is conducting the "Peace India Project" in a cotton-producing rural area in Telangana State, India, to protect children from child labor and support their education. In this post, I would like to inform you of the extension of the project period for the project currently being implemented in thr

Aim of the study From October 2020 to June 2022, ACE conducted the study project, “Data Collection Survey on Child Labour and Support for Child Labour Free Zone Pilot Activities with a Focus on the Cocoa Region in the Republic of Ghana”, commissioned by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The project aim was to investigate global trends in child labour, interventions to eliminate child labour implemented in Ghana, and trends in initiatives by stakeholders of th

Hello everyone! Thank you very much for your warm support for ACE's activities. This is Kondo, a staff in charge of Ghana. In this blog, we will tell you about “Community Register”, which is very important for understanding the actual situation of child labour. In Ghana, guidelines for the creation of government-certified "Child Labour Free Zone" (CLFZ) have been established, and ACE has been involved in their development. The guidelines were completed in 2020, and ACE then a

Hello everyone. Thank you very much for your warm support for ACE's activities. ACE, together with its local partner organization SPEED, is conducting the "PEACE India Project" in a cotton-producing rural area in Telangana State, India, to protect children from child labour and support their education. Children at increased risk of child labour due to the loss of education The spread of the new coronavirus has resulted in the loss of educational opportunities not only for chi

Hello everyone! Thank you very much for your warm support for ACE's activities. My name is Yuki Akahori, a staff member in charge of Ghana. The Smile Ghana Project provides free school supplies and uniforms to children from economically disadvantaged families who are at high risk of engaging in child labor. In this report, we report on the children and their families who received the school supplies last June (2021) and what has happened since then. The conditions of the fami

On 9th March 2020, the new Child Labour Free Zone system (CLFZ-system) came into effect in Ghana. It will be used to monitor, verify and certify that areas have eliminated child labour and have the mechanisms in place to continue to protect children from hazardous work, while also safeguarding other fundamental children’s rights. Eligible areas will be assessed and, if successful, certified as a "Child Labour Free Zone" ; cacao production areas are currently the main targets

Hi there, this is Yuka Tayanagi, ACE's India Project Manager. I wanted to give everyone an update on the current situation in our community projects, in a country particularly hard-hit by the outbreak of the Corona virus. As of August 17th, there were 2,640,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and number of deaths has exceeded 50,000. There is a lot of fear that infections will continue to spread to more local villages. We obviously have not been able to visit the project areas in th

A look back on how our PEACE India operation's impact long after project completion to fulfil its goal to ensure the long-term elimination of child labour ACE'S PEACE India Project aims to eliminate child labour and support children's quality education in the cotton production areas of ​​India, specifically in Telangana state where approximately 480,000 child labourers work in the cotton fields. “I want to send my own kids to school, not to work” ACE has been implementing it