KITA hosted training for new Peace Corps Volunteers for the Environment, Education and Water, Health and Sanitation Sectors in agro-forestry and alternative livelihoods in November and December 2010 to equip the volunteers and their counterparts with skills to develop rural livelihoods.
The Peace Corps volunteers were trained in seed treatment, nursery management, gardening, mushroom production, beekeeping, rabbitry, grasscutter and snail rearing and agro-forestry technologies such as alley cropping, woodlots among others on the KITA campus at Domeabra Apromase in the Ejisu District.
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Mr. Lovans Owusu-Takyi, Training Programs Coordinator for KITA and Trees for the Future Ghana urged the Peace Corps Volunteers for the Education Sector to establish schools Treepals environmental clubs and work with them to set up school gardens, plant trees and train them to be environmentally responsible. Mrs Mary Norah the APCD Associate Program Coordinating Director for the Education Sector said she will work with the Education volunteers to ensure environmental education is improved in schools in Ghana.
The Environment Sector Peace Corps Volunteers led by their APCD, Mr. Nicholas Nyale, will also be working with farmer groups and schools in rural communities to enhance food security and income generating projects among the farmers to improve thier livelihoods. Lovans Owusu-Takyi urged the volunteers to teach farmers to develop agroforestry technologies to solve environmental problems and improve soil fertility and organic farming practices on their farms.
The water and sanitation volunteers led by Mr. John Adepa the APCD, was trained at KITA on the 9th of December 2010 and provided moringa seeds in order to set up projects to improve nutrition and income generating projects with their women groups in the rural communities. Moringa has been known to have very useful nutrients that improve nutrition. The women groups will also use the moringa leaves for soap making, creams and other income generating projects
Lovans Owusu-Takyi, with support from Trees for the Future USA donated one watering can each as well as nursery tools and seeds of moringa, leuceana and albizia lebbek to each of the volunteers and thier counterparts to enable them to begin tree nurseries in their communities . The water and sanitation volunteers received mushroom bags each in order to promote mushroom production for income generation and nutrition development among the women groups.
The Peace Corps volunteers arrived in Ghana in June 2010 and have received training of various kinds in order to adapt well to the culture and gain the technical skills to empower people and improve the lives of the rural dwellers they have been posted to.
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