MASO ,a programme under the Youth Forward initiative led by Mastercard Foundation, is currently transforming the lives of over 11,000 out-of-school young people across Ghana in the agriculture sector. MASO is a five-year programme focused on creating employment opportunities for young people between the ages of 15 and 25, mostly in cocoa-farming communities in Ghana,

Mr Bossman Owusu, Head of Communications, Solidaridad West Africa has said the Next Generation Youth in Cocoa Programme, also known as MASO, was leading the transformation of the cocoa sector in the country by professionalising the farming of the crop. He said the current generation of youth had become “sophisticated”, and that more pragmatic and

The Board chair of the Ghana Revenue Authority, Prof Stephen Adei has encouraged the government to make funding available for young people, especially those who want to go into agriculture professionally. Prof. Adei who was addressing a Solidaridad and MasterCard funded ‘Maso Youth in Cocoa Conference’ in Ho in the Volta Region said considering the