MASO is a five year programme, focused on creating employment opportunities for the youth (aged 18-25) in Ghana’s cocoa communities.
Solidaridad’s MASO Cocoa Academy is a training programme for young Ghanaian women and men to become skilled, business-savvy cocoa farmers. In this blog, our colleague Lauren Konopacz shares her experience from joining the current MASO students on their typical study day at the Cocoa Academy.
In the village of Assin Nkukuasa, about a 5 hour bumpy drive from Ghana’s capital city, young community members have gathered for their biweekly course in the MASO Cocoa Academy. They are here to learn about cocoa agronomy. Most of them have some familiarity with cocoa due to family members owning some trees, or to prior work they have done on cocoa farms themselves. Nevertheless, they all share with us that they are excited about the chance to really learn the specifics about cocoa in order to grow more bountiful crops, and to better understand how to structure a good business plan.
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MASO Farmer field school
