Sustainable Community Project GAYO’s sustainable community project is a community-based waste management project in the South district of Ghana. The project includes members-led activities such as composting, recycling arts, and producing
charcoal briquettes from agricultural waste. The project aims to create a
zero-waste model for African rural-urban areas. The project has achieved significant results within the short period of its initiation. The project also procured safe water to over 100 women within the Kandiga-Kurugu rural population.
Zero Waste Strategy GAYO has been working with
La Dade Kotopon Municipal Assembly (LaDMA) to implement Zero Waste Accra Project to promote zero waste practices across municipalities.
Sustainable Sanitary Products & Period Poverty GAYO partnered with PeriodLink for the menstrual justice movement. Both youth-supported organizations raised funds to train women in
Northern Ghana to build better careers. The project educated teachers and pupils on menstrual health and period poverty across the upper-east region of northern Ghana.
Campus Eco Clubs GAYO initiated campus echo clubs in Ghanaian universities to educate youth on
environmental problems. Some of the participating universities were the University of Cape Coast (UCC), the University of Ghana (LEGON), the University of Developmental Studies (UDS), and Kwame Nkrumah University of
Science and
Technology (KNUST). The GAYO eco clubs called for drastic action on
plastic waste as a part of the Zero Waste Strategy. == References ==