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Asuogyamang district hosts Eastern regional voluntary youth camp 2018. This is a part of the National Youth Authority's programs to strengthen and drive volunteerism in young people across the 10 regions of Ghana. The Eastern regional camp hosted by the Asuogyamang district,Atimpoku near Akosombo has seen various districts and municipality youth participate. Addressing the campers in a brief orientation and program description, on the theme, Promoting Voluntarism for national development,  Ms Luyusa the NYA district coordinator of Asuogyamang inspired the youth on community development via service to mother Ghana. The participants paid a courtesy call on the district chief executive Honourable Samuel Agyekum who addressed the campers on the opportunities to be derived from volunteering are immense and encouraged the participants to contribute their little to development. As part of the program,various coordinators within the region took the opportunity to come and extend well wi...

Rich  Vision  Ghana  an NGO which is focused on Environmental and Public Health education in Somanya of the Eastern region of Ghana held a Global Climate Action on Rise For Climate Change on September 8 as part of 350.org an NGO. Speaking on the theme  Building a carbon free world via a good farm practices  Mr. Richard Kofi-Boye a Public health specialist and Director of Rich Vision Gh. He spoke about how the grassroots can grab and make use of good farming practices and called on farmers to grow more trees than cutting and desist from inorganic farming activities that ends up in polluting the environment and water bodies. Sharing on the dangers and effects of the climate change, he called for everyday good practices for safer and healthy living. The event which was held in Boti a farming community in the Yilo Krobo Municipality, saw the chieves, stakeholders, Basic school pupils, youth and people of Boti and Osuboi communities participate. He called on stakeh...

Verdant Global Boti community summer school second week ended so let's look back on what was achieved.The games and other extramural activities were moved to the morning instead of the afternoon with the objective of attracting more kids at 8 o'clock. Indeed the teams which had more members were more likely to win the games. They're organized on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Additionally, creative activities encouraging waste management were added on the Tuesday and Thursday morning. The courses continued as usual from 9am to 12noon except for Friday where an ICT session was organized by one of our partners, Young at Heart Ghana. Additionally, we have planned an awareness event for next week Thursday, 16th August aiming at the entire community as part of the International Youth Day 2018. The games had the expected impact and an acceptable portion of the children actively participated. Some games were requiring precision, others speed and decoding skills.The creative activ...

Volunteers started this week with much energy, planning of the International youth day celebration. With passion filled on Monday morning, the volunteers walked from Boti to community(Osubuɛ). The Team(Volunteers) later passed by the Chief (Osubuɛ) to Finalize Discussion on some relevant issues. On Special observation by the Volunteers, it was realized some of kids were not really picking up with what's been taught so volunteers made it more Practically adaptable by taking the kids outside the classroom to the Surrounding. A visit was also made later that day to Francis, one of the in-community volunteers  of who was ill. Class got interesting the next day when one of the partner Organizations arrived in the community and was picked up by one of the Volunteers to the School.The kids were engaged in a gaming activity. The team Later paid a Concerned Visit to David Kamkam , a Brilliant but Special primary one kid to deliberate on some key Issues. The Teaching and Learni...

For Week 2, Verdant Global commenced it’s kids engagement via the Summer project at Boti community in the Eastern region of Ghana, on Monday 30th of July, 2018. The Summer program was initiated to impact Primary school and Junior High school students with necessary knowledge in Science, Literacy, and Numeracy through fun games and creative Arts; and educate them on Climate change and global warming through recycling of plastic waste products to produce useful items for the community. The children at the Summer program were from Boti R/C Primary school and Boti R/C Junior High school. In the first week, the volunteers briefed the children on the objectives of the Summer project and grouped them into teams to encourage healthy competition and working together. They also led the teams to select team names and battle cries / slogans as well as engage in various educational games and activities, carrying out various tasks during the Summer program. Outstanding and winning teams for projec...

Osubuɛ is a small farming community within the Eastern Region which is in the land of the Klo. The population is not a huge one. As part of Verdant Global's Volunteer program, in this community with the Rural Summer School. Pupils engagement started on 30th July, 2018. This project seek to educate school children on Climate change (global warming) through waste management and recycling and also learning through fun games . The first week was a bit challenging where most volunteers weren't around and the in-community volunteers also didn't keep to expectations. The kids participated in all the fun games held within the week. They were group into teams namely Eagle, Butterfly, Ant, Elephant, Sheep, Cat, Rabbit and Bat. Scores were awarded to teams that came out victorious in each game. Tasks were assigned to each of the teams to bring plastic waste to school every day with the aim of this project on global warming to be achieved. Language barrier was a bit of a challenge be...

A team of volunteers from Verdant Global(NGO) are at Boti and Osubuɛ communities in the Eastern region of Ghana to facilitate their annual Rural Summer program for Basic school pupils. The summer project would feature hands-on practical sessions on ICT, reading / Literacy, Numeracy, Creative Arts, capacity building, Science, team building game sessions amongst others. The program is scheduled to commence on Monday 30th July, 2018. The organisation conceived the need to implement the volunteer-led project after a survey was carried out in the rural communities in the Eastern region, indicating that the children were mainly idle during the long School vacation. Unlike children from the urban areas whose parents pay to enroll them in Summer classes where they learn new skills, most Parents and Guardians of rural community children cannot afford to send them to special classes during summer. In the first week of the project, the team from Verdant Global paid courtesy visits to the ...

We may have heard in the days of Noah in the scriptures where God destroyed the earth with the waters,Flood. In that era, God cautioned the people through Noah about the great floods and later he made a covenant with his people never to destroy the earth with the waters, Floods again. He sealed this promise with a rainbow in the skies. In our today's living, citizens have gotten to that point of blaming God for every year's floods through the rains,forgetting the various activities we engaged in that causes flooding. Though God made this covenant, we have never thought of the fact that, we're those same citizens destroying our lives when the floods come in because, we fail to take responsibilities of taking good actions. Are you beginning to think of how you as a citizen of Ghana or this earth have been a negative factor that contributes to the destruction of the nature?Why should you litter to choke the drainage system? Why do you live irresponsibly by not living activel...

I probably should say, am a blending of many things because, I do a lot about youth development and empowerment. I've started Barcamp Ada #bcada and Barcamp Somanya #bcsom in 2017 not for fame but to serve the purpose the GhanaThink Foundation's BarCamp Ghana program seeks to bringing people to this 'Un-Conference' Barcamps to forum, share, learn, get mentored and Network. It was tough but I needed to start exposing some of the individuals making Change, doing amazing things and solving problems via this event. At Barcamp Ada 2017 was a mentor; Isaac Adjaottor, a Community Change agent, who runs a lot of non-profit projects to serve the people in Ada. He runs Farm for school Foundation (via farmforlivelihoodassociation.org) which address fund challenges for some of the youth going to school, runs the Malaria Awareness Club-Ada,works with JICA and other organizations as a volunteer in giving back to his society by providing Solar lamps to people on the island communi...

The first ever 50 Most Outstanding Individuals of the Ada State is a purely research by the Spaa Media Network and Avance Media to recognize Most Outstanding Natives/individuals of the Ada State who are leading the talk of selflessness, hard work, dedication and commitment to excellence across various sectors of the Ghanaian economy.  The research seek among many others things to encourage peak performance standards, inspire confidence, appreciate the hard work of individuals and become that reference point to younger generations  to hold in high esteem in the pursuit of their dreams and aspirations. Below is the full list for 2018: 50 MOST OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUALS OF THE ADA STATE LEADERSHIP & CIVIL SOCIETY 1. Nene Abram Kabu Akuaku  III - Paramount Chief Of Ada State 2. Nene Obuade I- Development Chief Of Ada State 3. Nene Tsastu Pediator IV- Chief Of Kudjregbe 4. Naana Adede Ahoundi Keteku I  - Kabiawetsu Divisional Queen 5. C.O.C. Amate - Author 6. P...

World water Day is here again! Each year on the 22nd March, the world observes this unique natural body-Water. Ghana observes this day too but its never a day of happiness to many rural communities. This is due to the fact that, this rural communities forms part of those who worldwide, lack access to water on an easy grounds. This is not a yearly challenge which affects this residents, but a lifetime happening. Most of this residents have kids travel minutes to access a close 'Safe water' for their families and chores. 'Water is life' as the saying goes and popular in many Ghanaians but does it comes with ease? Its with this challenge that our Ghanaian government shouldn't feel good but make good use of this yearly event not to cut-sod for water projects but to open new taps or portable dug-wells to this locals. It shouldn't feel good for our country to only be talking about challenges and research works which enables us feel part of this yearly event. Its nev...

Ada is a tourism hub made up of human friendly settings. Hilton Hotels & Resorts, Hilton, Hilton Honors, and Trassaco Valley, we are waiting for your response and demand that you listen to the vulnerable. Your haphazard 'development' scheme has already caused innumerable damages and insecurity to the people of Kewunor. Your plans have not included the people or the vulnerable ecosystems you will be effecting, and for that you must be made responsible. Please to all supporters and Ally's take a moment to sign  and share our petition to Stop Hilton and Trassacco from violating human and environmental rights at the Ada Estuary. Kindly Use the link to sign a petition towards the reclamation of Kewunor https://www.change.org/p/hilton-hotels-stop-hilton-and-trassacco-from-violating-human-and-environmental-rights-at-the-ada-estuary?recruiter=241200716&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition