Category: Livelihood Initiatives
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WUZDA Ghana’s FaPUOWaFLiS Project Moves to Phase 4, with Expected Improved Results in Communities
The Farm-Promoting Urban Organic Waste for Food and Livelihood Initiatives (FaPUOWaFLiS) Project has resumed, after the expiration of the third phase, which impacted the lives of men, women, and children in communities across the Northern Region. Over the past years, the FaPUOWaFLiS project focused primarily on contributing to improved incomes and sustained financial literacy practice…
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WUZDA Ghana Distributes Small Ruminants to Farmers
WUZDA Ghana has distributed small ruminants specifically sheep, to smallholder farmers in Wovogumah and Tonjin communities. This was the third round of distribution, and 14 smallholder farmers received the sheep, nine (9) were women and five (5) were men. The main objective of this initiative was to empower these farmers to adapt to new…
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WUZDA GHANA USES VSLA INITIATIVE TO CHANGE LIVES IN THE COMMUNITIES.
On the 8th of November 2023, a new Village Saving and Loan Association (VSLA) initiative was created for the women’s group in the Lamakara Community known as Yumzaa Women Group (YWG). This initiative aims at supporting women to develop the spirit of saving and being financially independent for themselves. This is one out of many…
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WUZDA GHANA VSLA INITIATIVE
A team from WUZDA Ghana paid a visit to one of the VSLA groups in Kapkayili called “Suglo Nbori bun” on the 18th of October 2023. They are a women’s group in the Kapkayili community under the Tamale Metropolitan Assemble. Village Saving and Loan Association (VSLA) is an intervention WUZDA Ghana introduced to support women…
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WUZDA CREATES VSLA GROUP IN ZAAZI COMMUNITY
WUZDA Ghana today introduced the Village Savings and Loans concept to the people of Zaazi a farming community in the Savelugu Municipality. The initiative is aimed at promoting the spirit of savings in the community members and helping raise their livelihood involvement in development. The Village Savings and Loans scheme provides community members an opportunity…
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WUZDA Ghana Project Communities Harvesting for 2022 Crop Season
The Farm – Promoting Urban Organic Waste for Food and Livelihood Security (FaPUOWaFLiS) project is being implemented in ten communities in the northern region of Ghana. Some 101 direct and indirect farms in communities are all engaged mostly in vegetable cultivation with the support of WUZDA Ghana’s drip irrigation technology, which enables the farmers to…
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WUZDA Ghana Provides Cash Credit to Support Rural Women in Income Generation
Women in Bamvim Dohini have been fortunate to have benefited from WUZDA Ghana’s credit support to improve on their various trading activities, under WUZDA Ghana’s Women Income Generation Support, as part of the Livelihood Initiatives programme. The aim of the credit support, is to help raise the level of income generation by women in rural…
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WUZDA Ghana’s Activity on Tracking Sales of Vegetables in Project Communities
WUZDA Ghana has over the past eighteen months been supporting communities in the Tamale Metropolis and Sagnarigu and Savelugu Municipalities in the cultivation of vegetables. This initiative, under the project; “Farm – Promoting Urban Organic Waste for Food and Livelihood Security (FaPUOWaFLiS)”, is aimed at helping improve the economic levels of residents in the beneficiary…
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WUZDA Ghana Assesses Pawpaw Plants in Project Communities
One of the activity components of the “Farm – Promoting Urban Organic Waste for Food and Livelihood Security (FaPUOWaFLiS)” Project is the growing of pawpaw to help improve nutrition, as well as the economic well – being of households within the target communities. The “FaPUOWaFLiS” project has six communities across the Tamale Metropolis, Sagnarigu and…
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WUZDA Ghana Celebrates Street – Connected Children on IDSC – 2021, with series of advocacy activities
WUZDA Ghana and its local partners in collaboration with the global Consortium for the Street Children have commemorated the International Day for the Street Children, which has an objective to draw attention of governments over the world, to the debilitating conditions in which Street – connected children live. With funding support from Mundo Cooperante, WUZDA…
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