🇬🇭Ghana

Where Accra households once burned their rubbish because nobody collected it, more than 500 informal waste workers now collect it for a small fee instead.

At Jantuakrom, nurses who once delivered babies by torchlight now run a vaccine fridge on a 3.6 kW rooftop array that four local trainees helped install and still maintain.

Accra is wiring itself with low-cost sensors to see, for the first time, exactly where its toxic air is hitting hardest.

Fights fast fashion's 'waste colonialism' from inside Accra's Kantamanto, the world's largest secondhand clothing market.

Clean Team Ghana rents families in Kumasi a private in-home toilet and sends a Ghanaian crew to swap the sealed waste container for a clean one every week.

Ghana had no community seed banks until NUS Network-Ghana set up a pilot at Adawso in 2023, and its newest at Abrewankor now holds 58 local varieties including fonio.

More than 66,000 seedlings of threatened tree species are back in Atewa, one of Ghana's last two upland evergreen forests, and the regulation that opened forest reserves to mining was repealed in December 2025.

In five fishing towns of Ghana's Ahanta West district, fishers once paid by the fin are now trained to release critically endangered guitarfish, and some earn more from snail farms and soap than from the sea.

Ghana's leading wildlife NGO is pulling a critically endangered tree back from the brink while training communities to steward forests and birds.

A Ghanaian sewing workshop turns the drinking-water sachets that choke Accra's gutters and beaches into bags, wallets and accessories, paying collectors and seamstresses for waste most people just step over.

A Ghanaian social enterprise sells ceramic-lined charcoal stoves that cut smoke, fuel bills, and burns for low-income households across West Africa.