As part fostering youth leadership in scientific research and environmental sustainability, GAYO donated laboratory and field equipment worth GH¢100,000 to UCC [...]
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 [...]
We are excited to announce the appointment of our Executive Director, Joshua Amponsem, as a Plastic Action Champion by the Global Plastic Action Partnership (GPAP). GPAP is a global consortium of public and private actors headquartered at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Geneva, Switzerland, whose aim is to tackle [...]
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 [...]
“The Global Landscape is threatened by climate change yet human activities seem to generally act as catalysts for destruction rather than conservation” Desmond Alugnoa. [...]
One key part of the sustainable communities’ project is the Recycle/Up-cycle component which teaches children to make useful products from plastic waste and to generate income from it. The pilot phase of the project saw the production of pillows, cosmetic bags, pen and pencil cases and key holders from plastic [...]
At GAYO, we say “all hands on deck no matter what”. From school to school, for nearly three months now, we have been focused on teaching pupils in basic schools on proper waste handling so that we can groom a generation of system changers that appreciates the right attitude to environmental [...]