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ECO CLUBS for pupils
Together with our project partner FONAR, we work in 15 schools in Northern Ghana. Through creatively designed school clubs, children and young people are sensitized to re-greening. In addition, each Eco Club undertakes various community outreach activities, such as growing trees on community land.
Trainings for teachers
In workshops lasting several days, teachers and school leaders can acquire extensive knowledge about awakening trees. Pedagogical methods are also learned in order to pass on this awareness to the young generation in the best possible way.
Campains for the public
For a message to reach society, it must be communicated through all possible channels. In the form of posters, plays, show gardens, meetings and festivals, our story of hope reaches a wide audience.
Hope for Ghana
Sumaila Seidu Saaka (Director FONAR) describes:
Ghana lies between the Atlantic and the Sahel
"Ghana, formerly known as the “Gold Coast”, sits on the Atlantic Ocean in West Africa and borders Togo, Cote d'Ivoire, and Burkina Faso. The country, about the size of the United Kingdom, is home to more than 30 million people.
More than a third of the population is under 15 years old. In the past two decades, it has taken major strides toward consolidating democracy governance under a multi-party system.
Ghana consistently ranks in the top three countries in Africa for freedom of speech and press freedom, with strong broadcast media, with radio being the medium with the greatest reach. Factors such as these provide Ghana with solid social capital."
Reversing Land Degradation for improved livelihoods in the Upper East Region, Ghana
"The Upper East Region (UER) is one of 16 administrative regions of Ghana. It is located in a semi-dry agro-ecological zone that lies in the transitional zone between the dry Guinea and Sudan savannah grassland parts of West Africa bordering the Sahel. The region covers an estimated land area of 8,842 km², of which 80% suffers from moderate to severe land degradation.
The UER had a total population of roughly 1.04 million people in 2010, with an annual growth rate of about 1.2 percent. The average population density of the region is 118.4 people/km², as compared to the national average population density of 103.4 people/km². The mainly rural population of the UER, where more than four in every 10 people are poor, is dependent on rain-fed subsistence agriculture.
Desertification resulting from rapid environmental degradation due to negative land clearing practices has been identified as the most serious environmental problem in the region. The livelihoods of rural farm households are thus threatened by increasing agricultural drought and loss of soil fertility."
