The Keep Ghana Clean campaign sponsored by the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development and currently running on television to promote good refuse disposal habits is a laudable effort especially in the height of the present cholera epidemic. The campaign is made up of a number of public service announcements including “The Story of Cholera”, a five-minute short animation film produced by the Global Health Media Project and released in 2011, and a number of television advertisements produced here in Ghana, which show scenes most of us know very well. Despite the good objectives for the campaign, some of the public … Continue reading The Keep Ghana Clean Public Service Commercials are Sexist

A delegation of partners of the Religious Bodies Network on Climate Change [RELBONET] from the Bremen Mission in Germany have interacted with officials in the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum Resources, and the Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology in Accra, Monday 18th August. The delegates, numbering five are Annegret, Christine, Emmanuel, Heinrich and Helmut. They are Climate Change and Environment Programme managers of their respective churches in Germany. The churches are the Evangelical Church of Bremen, the Evangelical Church in Lippe, the Lutheran Church in Oldenburg, and the Reformed Church in Leer. The delegation was led round Accra by RELBONET’s … Continue reading RELBONET Partners in Germany Visit Ghana

Togbe Afede XIV, The Paramount Chief of Asɔgli and President of the Volta Regional House of Chiefs, at noon on Sunday January 5, received the baton in the Glasgow 2014 Queen’s Baton Relay in Ho, capital of the Volta Region. The baton arrived at Togbe Afede’s palace where a very colourful durbar of Chiefs and people of Ho was being held.  The baton was relayed to him on the 89th day of the QBR by Hon. Nii Laryea Afotey Agbo, the Volta Regional Minister. Togbe Afede commented, “We are privileged to be able to host the baton so early in the … Continue reading Togbe Afede XIV relays The Queen’s Baton

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the revered African statesman and an enduring icon of the struggle against racial oppression, who left prison after 27 years to be president of South Africa has died. He passed away Thursday night, 5 December, in his Johannesburg home. He was 95. “Our nation has lost its greatest son,” President Jacob Zuma said in a televised address Thursday night. Mandela was inaugurated South Africa’s first democratically elected President 10 May 1994, when he led the ANC to a resounding victory in the nation’s first democratic elections. He served one term which ended in 1999. Mandela led the spirited struggle to end apartheid, the … Continue reading Nelson Mandela passes away

There was excitement in Accra Sunday November 3, when a rare solar eclipse that began over the Atlantic Ocean as an annular eclipse and transitioned into a full total solar eclipse along the narrow path in the eastern Atlantic and over parts of Africa reached Accra around 1.20pm local time. Astronomers predict that another eclipse to be seen across Africa will occur February 26, 2017.   Continue reading Rare solar eclipse excites residents of Accra

Religious groups are becoming active in promoting understanding and action in response to climate change worldwide. In Ghana, the EP Church is a leading religious organisation working in the climate and environment sector. The church provides information and education to enable rural communities whose main occupation is food crop production animal keeping. It also executes projects under its climate and environment programmes. Presently the church has projects going on, in parts of northern Ghana to help communities and rural peasant farmers who depend mainly on rainfall to water their crops to adapt to climatic changes. In the video below, a … Continue reading EP Church supports communities to adapt to Climate Change