Category: Livelihood Initiatives
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WUZDA Ghana Conducts Monitoring of Project Vegetable Farm Fields as part of Preparation for Next Farming season
The “Farm – Promoting Urban Organic Waste for Food and Livelihood Security (FaPUoWAFLiS)” Project, has been running from October 2019, with its main focus on supporting deprived rural communities with basic farming techniques for the cultivation of vegetables using organic compost. The two – year project, funded by our partner Bread for the World in
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WUZDA Ghana Provides Communities with Credit Support to Boost their Trading Activities
WUZDA Ghana, through its Income Generation Credit Support for women in the Northern Region, has disbursed a total of GH¢31,800.00 to four groups, mostly women, in four rural communities in the Northern Region to help them improve their income levels and make life better for their households. This initiative is under the Livelihood Initiatives Program,
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Press Statement: International Youth Day – 2020
It is election year in Ghana and in 4 months, the nation goes to the polls. The future of the youth is dependent on the outcome of every general elections. The youth are expected to be the backbone of the development workforce of every nation, however, the limited or no opportunities in developing nations like
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Press Statement: World Rainforest Day – 2020
It is important for all humans to make efforts at contributing to preserving biodiversity, as it has a huge impact on human survival. The Amazon rainforest alone provides up to 20% of the oxygen human beings around the world breathe and the freshwater we drink. They are also responsible for the absorption of carbon dioxide
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We’re Hiring!
WUZDA Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organization based in Tamale, is looking to recruit a competent and highly disciplined individual as Programme Officer in charge of Agronomics. WUZDA Ghana is dedicated to working to improve the lives and economic well-being of the rural farmer through drip irrigation technology and the management and preservation of water to enhance
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WUZDA Ghana Conducts Training For Farmers On The Drip Irrigation And Mobile Messaging Technologies
WUZDA Ghana has provided training to its vegetable farmer groups in the six communities it is implementing the ‘Farm-Promoting Urban Organic Waste for Food and Livelihood Security’, ‘FaPUOWaFLiS’ Project. The training, facilitated by Professor at the University for Development Studies (UDS), Ing. Professor Abdul Ganiyu Shaibu, is aimed at re-awakening the spirit of ownership among
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PRESS RELEASE ON PARBOIL RICE BY THE YOUTH ADVOCACY ON RIGHTS AND OPPORTUNITIES (YARO)
Ghana has been spending an excess of 1 billion US Dollars on the importation of rice every year since 2015 and we at YARO see this trend to be a creation of a problem for an ailing economy like Ghana, when we can focus on retooling our local rice production sector. A survey we conducted
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We’re Hiring!!!
WUZDA Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organization based in Tamale, is looking to recruit a competent lady to occupy its Gender development/ Governance and Accountability desk. WUZDA Ghana is dedicated to working to improve the suffering of vulnerable persons having difficulties understanding and benefitting from certain public policies and require some education/awareness, to avoid discrimination. The Gender
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WUZDA Ghana meets with German Donor to discuss Scale up of Project
WUZDA Ghana and its main partner, Bread for The World in Germany have met to look at possible ways to scale up on a project they have partnered to run as pilot for two years. The project “Farm Promoting Urban Waste For Food and Livelihood Security” took off with implementation in 2016 and ended in
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Manguli Community VSLA Women Group Holds Graduation
It was all joy for the Wun Zooya VSLA group members in Manguli in the Tamale Metropolitan area as they successfully went through their graduation, Wednesday. The group is one of two in the community, where the Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLA) initiative is being used by WUZDA Ghana to raise the habit of
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