Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO) and the La Dade Kotopon Municipal Assembly calls on stakeholders for a door to door sensitization campaign. [...]
"My name is Zakat Ziboh. I wake up early in the morning at 5 am, take my bath, get dressed, pick up my tools and my sack to go out and look for scraps. When I go out, sometimes, I get a lot of money, other times, I don't get [...]
To celebrate World Cities Day 2021, the Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO) in partnership with the La Dade Kotopon Municipal Assembly (LaDMA), Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources (MSWR), Ministry of Local government and Rural Development (MLGRD), with support from Joy News, GHOne TV, and CitiNews, [...]
Green Africa Youth Organization is proud to announce the launch of the Global Youth Call to Action on Adaptation. Throughout 2020, we have been supporting the establishment of the Youth Adaptation Network at the Global Center on Adaptation through consultations with young people from around the world. Ahead of the [...]
The Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO) in partnership with the National Disaster Management Organization, the Africa Youth Advisory Board on Disaster Risk Reduction (AYAB DRR), and Accra office of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) present the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (IDDR) quiz competition. IDDRR [...]
In an era of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become more urgent to integrate the informal waste pickers – mostly women, ensure their safety and acknowledge their contribution to the overall environmental quality of many urban and peri-urban areas. – Joshua Amponsem, Green Africa Youth Organization. In Ghana, informal waste [...]
It is urgent for governments to commence action on climate change adaptation and increase youth involvement in climate action processes from national to the community level. We have seen and heard of diverse strategies, it is about time we see an effective and accountable implementation of climate policies. [...]
Register for the Africa Clean-Up Conference 2019 www.acuinitiative.org/accghana19 [...]
First ZeroWaste Public Event in Ghana. On World Environmental Day 2018, GAYO together with Ghana Youth Environmental Movement held Power Shift 2018 in Accra to under the theme ‘Beat Plastic Pollution”. GAYO, led by Joshua Amponsem, was excited to share with about 200 young people the origin of plastics, how [...]