Green Village Plan Development

Hello members and everyone that has been supportive since we started. It has been though time on the field just preparing for the time when we will really be active on our purpose to bring change to our Environment. The COVID-19 has brought about it own ways effecting local or rural communities.
This brings about waking up on our work and getting more active again.
We starting a new project in January 2021. It will be a small project which should expand rapidly. I will update you more when we done with our general meeting the coming weeks. Now its time to get more active......

Green Village Plan Development updated their phone number.

Green Village Plan Development updated their phone number.

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Great news from our team in Akyem Hemang! Green Village's Susu Savings and Credit Union (headed by Eric, pictured below) is now serving 700 clients with savings and subsidized loan programs and has grown to employ ten team members. We're changing communities one life at a time!

A Water Crisis Threatens Ghana's Economic Growth

Clean water access, agricultural innovation and physical infrastructure are key to Ghanaian progress and growth.

"Water- or the lack of it- is one of the biggest issues facing urban Africa, which will see a 66 percent population increase to 1.2 billion people by 2050, according to the United Nations. Although water shortages have long plagued parts of the continent, they’ve become the potential killer of Africa’s economic takeoff. Ghana’s $35 billion economy, whose estimated growth of 8 percent in 2013 would outpace the sub-Saharan African average for a sixth straight year, cannot continue at that rate without a modern water network."

A Water Crisis Threatens Ghana's Economic Growth Ghana’s people and businesses struggle as decrepit infrastructure crumbles

Decolonizing Our Minds and Our Lands: Reviving Seeds, Culture and African Strength

"Reviving the culture is also about reviving the spirituality of the people. Even though African countries gained political independence, we did not gain the spiritual independence which is so critical to our development even today.

We first have to decolonize our minds because we are still carrying the shame of our ancestry. Unless we are able to shed this, our efforts are futile. It all starts in the mind. You can then look at issues from a different perspective, bringing the power inspired by your ancestors from within. You are then able to distill the answers and solutions to your problems from that ancestral knowledge.

So [our challenge is] to bring back the whole ecosystem. We are communities of humans, and the ecosystems are the other communities of the earth. These, plus our spirituality, are very important pillars in our work."

Decolonizing Our Minds and Our Lands: Reviving Seeds, Culture and African Strength Recolonization is happening, not just in Africa, but across the global South.

Home

From now Green Village Plan Development cooperates with its sister company in Europe.
Fresh Pro connects local farmers to the international fruit market and empowers them to gain control over their resources!
Visit Fresh Pro´s new website: www.fresh-pro.se

Home Fresh Pro has a long-standing record of successful export initiatives of tropical fruits and vegetables to multiple countries and connects its clients to the best quality and the freshest produce on the African continent.

Africa's agriculture needs young blood, says report - BBC News

Green Village Plan Development is proud to be making a difference with its agro business, which empowers local communities by involving rural individuals- including farmers- in its production process. We need more young people involved in agricultural innovation in Africa!

Africa's agriculture needs young blood, says report - BBC News Modernising Africa's agriculture sector to attract young people will help tackle youth unemployment and food insecurity, a report suggests.

The Challenge

The West African collaboration Borderless is doing a great job to fight trade inefficiencies in West Africa. High transport costs, bribery and poor infrastructure are still obstacles for business transactions between and within West African countries.

http://www.borderlesswa.com/challenge

The Challenge Reducing the costs of transport Transport costs in West Africa are among the highest in the world. The high costs mean that farmers and other producer...

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own. -Samuel Johnson

More updates from the field!

Keeping busy...

Unveiling our new microfinance Susu office in the Eastern Region! “Susu” is reported to be a major source of finance for most micro and small scale businesses (World Bank, 1994).

The team having a bit of well-deserved fun :D!

In partnership with Ghana Capital Partners, Green Village Plan Development is proud to distribute the first batch of subsidized NOKERO solar light-bulbs to villages without electricity! We will continue to reach out to households in need on a regular basis.

Green Village Plan Development

Check our new Website! www.greenvillagedev.org

Green Village Plan Development Green Village is a non-governmental organization finding measures for sustainability in rural African communities. It's staffed by groups of young people with the passion to sustainably develop their communities. We are mainly aimed at improving the living condition of the poor and focusing on achie…

In Ghana, women dominate the food markets- they sell, trade and carry produce to various destinations for miles. They have a visible role both in the urban and the rural economies, and therefore benefit greatly from microfinance, entrepreneurial training and empowerment. This is one such example of women selling oranges at Cape Coast!

These are the books we purchased for our library in Akyem Hemang (and will get plenty more soon!). Thank you all for sending us donations- many of which have already arrived!

The Susu Collection System in Ghana and experiences in linking formal and informal financial...

GVPD is officially starting its microfinance Susu project in the rural communities of the Eastern Region- very exciting. To learn more about the Susu collection system in Ghana, see below!

Likewise, we are currently working to expand our partnerships with rural farmers to not only help them export fruits and vegetables abroad, but also to encourage them to give back to their communities.

http://www.aaeafrica.org/start/the-susu-collection-system-in-ghana-and-experiences-in-linking-formal-and-informal-financial-intermediaries/

The Susu Collection System in Ghana and experiences in linking formal and informal financial... The Susu Collection System of Ghana Susu collection is one of Ghana’s most ancient traditional banking systems. In the Akan language, the term ‘Susu’ means …

Green Village team meets to discuss the progress of our projects for the upcoming month!

Solar Light from Nokero - Solar Light Bulbs and Solar Phone Chargers

Green Village is currently in talks with Ghana Capital Partners (GCP) to help us attain capital to purchase and sell NOKERO ("No Kerosene") solar light bulbs to rural families without electricity who rely on dangerous kerosene lamps for lighting their homes in the evening hours. Nokero bulb would provide an affordable lighting alternative that is healthier and safer, ensuring that families can continue working and learning in the evening hours, and in many cases, increase their monthly incomes. http://nokero.com/

Solar Light from Nokero - Solar Light Bulbs and Solar Phone Chargers Noker's solar lights and solar battery chargers are uniquely designed, high-quality and low-cost. LED lights for outdoor solar lighting and power worldwide.

The village of Akyem Hemang in the Eastern Region of Ghana has spoken: they want a community library, especially for their children. Green Village is responding by setting up a small library in its local office with books purchased from Accra. But, we need your help! If you would like to contribute to the community's library and expand the community's world-view with your old books, please send them to us- we would be very grateful. It would make a world of difference to the children!

Please mail your books to:

Adu Eric Amos
P.O. Box 54
Kwabeng
Eastern Region
Ghana

We will keep you updated on our Green Village library!

This upcoming week, the Green Village team will travel to the Eastern Region of Ghana in order to plan and implement its pilot community microfinance project. Microfinance initiatives- especially those that do not work on profit basis like Green Village- have been shown to empower women and communities worldwide.

This is our Green Village Plan Development farm, which employs local farmers in need of work. Here is our watermelon field that will produce export-ready watermelons in two months.

Yesterday's meeting with the chairman of the farmers' cooperative on a pineapple-producing farm of the Oboadaka village.

We visited Somanya village and the Fevlo farms to talk to farmers about exporting greater number of mangoes and other harvest this season (which would empower local producers and their livelihoods). The meeting was a success!

Yesterday, the team had a brainstorming/planning session for the next steps we'll take in our agricultural, social, health and community microfinance projects. The session included vast discussion on development needs in Ghana and the issues that need to be addressed for development progress to occur. One of the issues we discussed is the lack of gold mining regulations and human rights abuses by foreign mining companies in Ghana.

Great news! Yesterday, we shipped our first mango export oversees. The shipment comprised of over 4,000 kilos of local farmers' mangoes and was headed to Lebanon. The proceeds of this transaction will go directly to the farmers' pockets. Way to go, team!

Green Village Plan Development is working with local farmers in rural communities to teach them about foreign market harvest quality standards and help them sell their produce abroad. Few days ago, we toured a local farm and got a glimpse of okra, chili pepper and rice fields.

World Malaria Day 2013 - Invest in the future. Defeat malaria

Green Village Plan Development is joining the fight against malaria - it can be prevented. Watch WHO's update for Malaria Day 2013 here!

World Malaria Day 2013 - Invest in the future. Defeat malaria United Nations, 22 April 2013 - In Africa a child dies every minute from malaria... World Malaria Day (25 April) is an occasion to highlight the need for con...

Malaria: with me all my life – PATH Blog

Did you know that once infected, malaria can come back for the rest of your life? Here is one example.

Malaria: with me all my life – PATH Blog To commemorate World Malaria Day and World Immunization Week, our partners in African research centers who are working on a malaria vaccine have been writing about their personal experiences with malaria. Today, M. Nze Ndong Pascal Romuald, former administrative officer and communications officer at...

Green Village Plan Development

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greenvillagedev.org Green Village is a non-governmental organization finding measures for sustainability in rural African communities. It's staffed by groups of young people with the passion to sustainably develop their communities. We are mainly aimed at improving the living condition of the poor and focusing on achie...

Green Village Plan Development is Established

Ghanaian Tetteh Buer, graduate of Development Studies in Sweden and Denmark, establishes Green Village Plan Development to combat challenges facing poor rural communities that are lagging behind the cities in the overall development of Ghana.