Our Impact in Communities

Ever since 2012,, Nestlé has played a more active role in improving access to quality education in cocoa growing communities based in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. Since then, we have made great strides to enable children to achieve their potential, providing an alternative to working in the field and broadening opportunities for the future.

When women can read, communities benefit, and maternal literacy is a key factor in improving nutrition, reducing child mortality, and reducing the risk of child labour. The Nestlé Cocoa Plan offers popular literacy schemes for mothers in the communities where we operate.

Meet Gloria Abaidoo, currently on a mission from Nestlé Research and Development (R&D) Abidjan, working as an R&D Associate Specialist at the Nestlé Product Technology Center for Confectionery in the United Kingdom.
Gloria is part of a network of youth who are benefitting from an academic collaboration between Nestlé and tertiary institutions in Ghana - namely the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and the University of Ghana.

This is one of such examples creating job opportunities for over 5,000 young people with pushcarts and shoulder kits enabling youth to support themselves and their families while contributing to the socio-economic upliftment of their local communities.

My OWN Business complements the company’s successful ‘pushcart’ initiative where sellers use pushcarts to provide hot Nescafé drinks to consumers in local markets and neighbourhoods.

Before the MAGGI Mammies Digital Literacy Project ,when I was given a phone number, I couldn't take it down. Now I can do it. I also know how to recognise phone numbers. I'm doing better at calculations than I used to. It helps me a lot in my business”

Meet Helène, she is one of the 1000 Mammies benefitting from our literacy programme for women traders in major markets in Abidjan.