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EBL, BGCF Train Youth in Bamboo, Tree Species for Ecological Restoration

Envirotech Bamboo Limited (EBL), a leading bamboo product manufacturing and landscape restoration company, in partnership with Bright Generation Community Foundation (BGCF), has embarked on agro-forestry and ecological landscape restoration training programme, aimed at empowering women and youth in bamboo endowed communities.

Ms. Bernice Dapaah, Founder of Envirotech Bamboo Limited (EBL), explained that the initiative seeks to provide innovative and sustainable solutions to promote environmental conservation and economic development.

She disclosed that the training programme also focuses on sensitising and educating communities on the adoption of bamboo as a substitute for tree species cultivation on degraded and mined-out lands.

GROUP PIONEERS CHEAP TRICYCLES TO TRANSPORT WOMEN IN LABOUR

For many women in rural Ghana, childbirth could mean the difference between life and death. Run-down roads, an unreliable ambulance service and inadequate health facilities make labour a nightmare and child survival a matter of luck.

Despite huge efforts to bring down maternal and infant mortality and the strides already achieved, one new-born child dies every 15 minutes with 30,000 new-born deaths recorded every year according to the UN’s children Fund, UNICEF.

INSTALLATION OF SOLAR PANEL INSPIRES EVENING CLASSES IN DEPRIVED COMMUNITY

Bright Generation Community Foundation (BGCF), a youth-led community empowerment organization, is reaching out to less-privileged children in rural Ghana with solar panels to aid their learning. The “Light UP” project is part of a holistic education campaign dubbed “Education PLUS”, which has over the years trained 127 volunteer teachers, placed in 12 deprived communities.

This is in line with the objective of achieving Goal 4 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”. One community beneficiary is Dunya, a farming community without electricity thereby making learning a difficult task after class hours.

NGO GOES INTO BAMBOO BIKING

A Non-Governmental Organisation, Bright Generation Community Foundation, has begun manufacturing locall-made bicycles using bamboo under the Ghana Bamboo Bikes Project.The project, which is under a commitment project by the Clinton Global Initiative University, has been established under the Export Processing Zone to use bamboo in building frames when making the bicycles.

The Executive Director of the Bright Generation Community Foundation, Bernice Dapaah, said the bicycles are aimed at encouraging the development of eco-friendly products and will be exported to the European and United States markets.

“Businesses are known to produce some of the largest and most significant carbon footprints, so it is only right that steps are made to reverse this trend.

GHANA WINS HARVARD AWARD

The Founder of Bright Generation Community Foundation in Kumasi, Bernice Dapaah, has emerged as a finalist of the 2010 Harvard University Women in Business Social Entrepreneurship Award. Ms Dapaah, who is currently pursuing a Human Resource Management programme at the Christian Service University, has started the Foundation to create employment opportunities for street girls and the physically challenged in Kumasi by rescuing oodles of plastic trash from the city of Kumasi and turning them into decorative beads and high fashion eco-green products like laptop bags, raincoats, tote-bags, wallets etc.

The Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business for Good social enterprise competition seeks to facilitate creativity, innovation, and collaboration among social entrepreneurs, increase the visibility of social entrepreneurship, and encourage college students to consider social entrepreneurship as they move into the working world.