ACE is now hiring!

We are a Japanese NGO active in international advocacy to protect children from exploitation across the globe. ACE aims to transform the world into a place where all children and youths are free to shape their own lives and capable of building a society that they want to live in.　Ending child labour is one of our core strategic goals.　We believe that achieving this goal in the long-term requires addressing every level of the global supply chain. As such, we operate through international cooperation, supporting rural communities in Asia and Africa, collaborating with private corporations, and engaging in consumer education.

Our Happy Chocolate Project aims to solve child labour in Ghana's cocoa industry by promoting change through collective action by diverse stakeholders. In Ghana, we have been operating our community-based project to tackle child labour in cocoa regions since 2009. We extended our work to establish the "Child Labour Free Zones (CLFZs)" system in collaboration with the Ghanaian government since 2018, based on our success and experiences in community-based projects. We are currently conducting the research project commissioned by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to test the CLFZs system in Ghana. In Japan, we are promoting industry-wide initiatives through a Sustainable Cacao Platform for Developing Countries that was launched also by JICA in 2020 involving chocolate companies and the entire cacao industry. We plan to further promote collaboration with sustainable cacao platforms in other countries. We are looking for a team member who will work together to reach our common goal by building relationships with stakeholders in Japan and overseas.