Green Africa Youth Organization

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Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO)
Formation2014
FounderJoshua Amponsem and Desmond Alugnoa
HeadquartersGhana
Location
  • Ghana, West Africa
Websitehttps://greenafricayouth.com/

Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO) is a youth-led advocacy group based in Ghana. It was founded in 2014 by Joshua Amponsem and Desmond Alugnoa.[1][2] The group focuses on environmental sustainability and community improvement.[3][4][5] GAYO aims is to inspire young people to participate in climate activism and foster climate leadership in Ghana.[6] GAYO also provides environmental blogs.[7] GAYO established the first Youth Climate Council in Africa to provide climate skills to young people when it launched the council in 2021 in Ghana.[8][9][10]

Founders

Joshua Amponsem[11][12] is a Ghanaian climate activist[13] and the Climate Lead at the UN Secretary General’s Youth Envoy office.[14] Since a young age, he has been assisting climate-affected communities in Ghana.[15] Being an advisor to the UN Youth Envoy’s office, he facilitated the first UN Youth Climate Summit.[16] Joshua was one of the speakers[17] at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos in 2022.[18][19] Desmond Alugnoa was a farmer in northern Ghana.[20][21][22] His work started in 2012 with an emphasis on environmental preservation, climate adaptation, and community development.[23]

Projects and Initiatives

Sustainable Community Project

The project has achieved significant results within the short period of its initiation.[24] The project also procured safe water to over 100 women within the Kandiga-Kurugu rural population.[25]

Zero Waste Strategy

Sustainable Sanitary Products & Period Poverty

GAYO partnered with PeriodLink for the menstrual justice movement.[26] Both youth-supported organizations raised funds to train women in Northern Ghana to build better careers.[27] The project educated teachers and pupils on menstrual health and period poverty across the upper-east region of northern Ghana.[28][29]

Campus Eco Clubs

References

  1. ↑ "Rural Innovation – A Story of Green Africa Youth Organization". ClimaTalk. 7 July 2020.
  2. ↑ Suzuki, Mayumi (2021-07-28). "In Ghana, two young men are shaping climate justice for the Global South". Landscape News. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
  3. ↑ "Green Africa Youth Organization: Climate action in Ghana and the Global South". The Green Zine.
  4. ↑ "Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO)". World Cleanup Day.
  5. ↑ Yin, Millicent. "Climate Groups in Ghana to gather in Accra to develop Ghana's National Youth Statement on Climate". Filla House.
  6. ↑ Sato, Mayumi (29 July 2021). "In Ghana, two young men are changing what climate justice looks like in the Global South". LANDSCAPE NEWS.
  7. ↑ Sodeinde, Solomon (5 March 2018). "Africa's top five environmental blogs". Deutsche Welle.
  8. ↑ "Ghana institute Youth Climate Council". Ghana News Agency. 25 September 2021.
  9. ↑ "WikiForHumanRights Workshop". Open Foundation West Africa.
  10. ↑ "Ghana launches Youth Climate Council". GhanaWeb.
  11. ↑ "Joshua Amponsem". Earth Charter.
  12. ↑ "State & Trends in Adaptation: Governance & Young People" (PDF). Adaptation Futures 2020.
  13. ↑ "Ghanaian climate activist wants mandatory climate change education for youth". Graphic Online: Ghana news. 27 January 2021.
  14. ↑ "Joshua Amponsem". Bloomberg.com. Archived from the original on 2022-10-23. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
  15. ↑ "The hidden truth: Solutions for a youth-driven bioeconomy in Ghana". Forests News. 6 November 2021.
  16. ↑ "Global Youth Call to Action Adapt for Our Future" (PDF). Global Center on Adaptation.
  17. ↑ "Meet our speakers and jurors". The Home of Climate Cinema.
  18. ↑ Cheam, Jessica (1 June 2022). "The Global Plastics Treaty: We need speed, standards, scale and teeth". Eco-Business.com.
  19. ↑ "Joshua Amponsem". Climate Interactive.
  20. ↑ Sato, Mayumi (29 July 2021). "In Ghana, two young men are changing what climate justice looks like in the Global South". Landscape News - Global Landscapes Forum.
  21. ↑ Musmanni, Gabriela Díaz (9 September 2021). "Newly formed Youth Advisory Panel to help GCA steer the course of Global Adaptation". Global Center on Adaptation.
  22. ↑ "Youth from the Global South reflect on multisolving". Multisolving Institute. 30 January 2022.
  23. ↑ "Rural Innovation – A Story of Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO)". ClimaTalk. 7 July 2020.
  24. ↑ "Sustainable Community Project". Climate Chance.
  25. ↑ Amponsem, Joshua. "Sustainable Community Project: A Zero Waste Motive". Frontrunners Innovate.
  26. ↑ Raghunath, Ruchita (1 March 2021). "Artists and Activists: In conversation with Peace Silly on fighting period poverty". The Oxford Student.
  27. ↑ "Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO): Water4Adaptation and Period Poverty". UpLink.
  28. ↑ "In Ghana, two young men are changing what climate justice looks like in the Global South". LANDSCAPE NEWS.
  29. ↑ "Period poverty and menstrual belonging: a matter of climate justice" (PDF). The Lancet.
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