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, [...]
Immediate Release, Accra, 20th March 2021: The Green Africa Youth Organization Eco Club Campus Chapters (GECCC) is set to embark on a sensitization project to highlight solutions to the plastic mess in Ghana, using university campuses and students as agents of change to #BreakFreefromPlastics. Plastic pollution has become one of [...]
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 [...]
According the newly published 2019 Brand Audit Report, Coca Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, and Unilever ranked as the top regional polluters in Africa. Green Africa Youth Organization and the Let's Do It Ghana team were among over 200 organisations around the world that organized over 480 brand audits. [...]
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 [...]
Its #WorldOceansDay and we have a simple message to everyone: SAY NO TO PLASTICS! (#singleuseplastics ) Not only do plastics harm aquatic life physically, but also the chemicals contained in #plastics have a tremendous effect on the water ecosystem which humans and all life forms entirely depends on. We ask [...]
Green Africa Youth Organization partnered Environment 360 in collaboration with Adventure Junkies organised the first ever annual float your boat fundraiser. The event was graciously hosted at the Lakeside Marina Park on Saturday. The initiative was to educate people on sustainable methods of waste management and how to make money [...]