Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

A generation of food producers has the tools and knowledge (agricultural, informational, entrepreneurial) to make agriculture sustainable and rewarding, to find economic opportunity and to break the cycle of poverty.

Project Message

I have learned how to grow and care for vegetables like cabbages, carrots and garden eggs without using chemicals on them. I was happy to learn because I know in the future I can get a job from it.
- Bernard Arko, TGC Participant, Cape Coast School for the Deaf

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Dr. Joe Kwarteng,
TGC Ghana Coordinator
University of Cape Coast
P.O. Box UC 301
Cape Coast, Cape Coast
Ghana
+233 42 37596
Email:

Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organization

Learn more about United States Committee for FAO and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Ghana and can also be found under Economic Development.

For more information about Ghana, read the Human Development Report on Ghana or the Wikipedia entry for Ghana.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 14, 2007.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 17, 2006.

Latest Update from the Field

The Growing Connection in Ghana

By Dr. Joe Kwarteng - Project Leader, August 14, 2007 05:33 PM

A regular supply of clean water is now available to some students and teachers working in their school gardens. Water storage tanks make it possible to keep the student garden and farm projects going through the dry season. During the past year, thanks to donations such as yours, three schools have been provided with such water tanks as well as other inputs for their farm and garden activities.

Learning to grow healthy food and to rear small livestock gives students a sense of accomplishment and hope for possible future livelihoods in agriculture. The practical, hands-on teaching of agriculture has the potential to make a lasting difference in the lives of many young people. The use of some of the farm produce in the school kitchens also enhances the nutrition of the children.

To continue realizing the benefits of this project there is the need for expansion of school farm enterprises such as the growing of a wider variety of vegetables, the production of poultry and the rearing of small livestock. This can increase the earning potential of the students and help to sustain their projects. Additional funding support is needed for projects to continue to make a difference in the lives of students.

Please click below to read our 2006 annual report and see a photo from Ghana!
Attachments:

• 2006 Annual Report
• Photo-- Water Tank

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