MASO works through Community Facilitators to build the capacity of young people interested in either training as cocoa farmers or entrepreneurs in various cocoa growing communities. The facilitators are trained to assist in mobilizing the youth in their communities for training either in the MASO Agro Academy or Business Academy. One such facilitator is Rebecca

“I started supporting my uncle on his cocoa farm in 2014 after I completed Senior High School. This is where I developed an interest in cocoa farming. Now I want to become a professional cocoa farmer”. 24 year old Simon Atsitre lives in Leklebi Agbesia, a cocoa growing community in the Afadzato South District of

Richard Sakyi started “The Lord is My Shepherd Agro Chemicals” shop in October 2016 two months after enrolling in the MASO Business Academy in Ataase near New Edubiase in the Ashanti Region. He was motivated to join the MASO programme as a result of his determination to transform the many problems in his community into