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! 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. 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