Project 1: Community Garden Installation

Objective: Many locals are in need of fresh produce and building a garden will allow hands-on experience for the entire community to enjoy/learn from.

• • Goal 1A: Build a small community garden and supply the tools/ materials needed to educate the next generation of local growers.
  • Goal 1B: Help to inspire the youth to see agricultural occupations as desired future career paths, removing the stigma of outside manual labor.
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Project 2: Tree Planting and Care Project

Objective 1: Helping to reduce greenhouse gasses and fight climate change. 

• • Goal 1A: make climate solution a reality through students action projects
  • Goal 1B: limiting emission and sequestering carbon through tree plantings.

Objective 2: Improving the quality of the natural environment 

• • Goal 2A:  Restore the ecosystem by adding more soil
  • Goal 2B: Help facilitate erosion control.
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Project 3: Neighborhood Clean Up

Objective: Pollution is a challenge in many remote areas in Ghana, but providing materials to support frequent cleanups will spread awareness while diminishing the waste clutter on rural streets.

• • Goal 1A: Purchase materials to help facilitate community cleanups which will help residents change their behavior and get accustomed to recycling.
  • Goal 1B: Connect with local schools and universities to bring students into the experience, giving them a sense of ownership in the neighborhood.
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Project 4: SOLAwash station

Objective: Strengthen the capacity of the WASH facility for the sustainable WASH infrastructure at the schools while ensuring students have access to clean safe drinking water, improved hygiene and teen-friendly sanitation services and better source management and alternative sources of water i.e. Rain water harvesting and greywater management

• • Goal 1A: Increased awareness and establishment of innovative WASH facilities while reduced risks of bed bugs infections and diseases like Diarrhea, Dysentery, Typhoid fever, Cholera, and Hepatitis, etc.
  • Goal 1B: Increased capacity of school children, teachers, and local leaders to manage and sustain WASH facilities in OLA Girls Senior Highland to innovate Personal Hygiene management (PHM) attained in OLA Girls SHS.
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Project 5: IDEAS Hive Support in Ghana

Objective: Promoting climate action and spreading awareness regarding global warming is the top priority of IDEAS For Us. The future generation must be engaged to learn more about sustainability, and funding support is needed to keep these discussions occurring on a frequent basis.

• • Goal 1A:  Connect more than 500 volunteers, students and community leaders to join the IDEAS Hive meetings once per month.
  • Goal 1B:  Form action projects on a frequent basis to help mobilize activists living in the local community!
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Top Environmental Challenges:

• Deforestation in the mining areas
• Poor sanitation in schools
• Lack of access to clean water
• Unstable power supply affecting the hub and churches operations
• Lack of toilet facilities causing open defecation in communities

Get Involved:

Please reach out [email protected] to learn how you can get involved with the Ghana team running environmental action projects throughout the nation.

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Branch Leaders:

Founded in 2012 by Emmanuel Marfo (now IDEAS For Ghana Country Director and African Director)  with Evelyn Addison, Adwoa Fosua and Aaron Nartey.