Mckingtorch Africa

This week as part of our mentoring sessions for the ECOFEM project Mckingtorch Africa hosted Tawiah Esther who discussed bookkeeping, business registration and other key aspects of making your small business thrive. Her talk was very engaging and accessible to all as she shared her knowledge in both English and Twi) so all could take […]

As part of the recycling business incubation program, we are hosting a couple of successful women business owners to speak on critical topics that border on the ability of girls, women and other youth to succeed at business. Our first session was with the CEO of Environment360, Cordie Aziz. Cordie Aziz Nash, is the founder

On Friday October 18th, 93 amazing kids from Josemaria International School in Tema had an amazing time learning about environmental sustainability and using tools to make some great artworks from waste at our facility in Adenta.  Train the children well so when they grow they will grow with the right knowledge!

Innovation also means improving on existing processes and products. Innovations can be simple, they don’t need to be complicated. Innovations don’t always have to be sophisticated and complicated. Innovations can be simple and solve problems in the best ways where effectiveness and efficiency is achieved at it’s best. In 2023, our CEO Makafui Awuku fabricated

When our CEO Makafui Awuku was called upon by the Semester at Sea to host a session for students from Europe, U.S, Asia and North America he decided that this should be the first sales and marketing experience for the girls in the ECOFEM training program. Even though the girls were yet to complete the

We partnered with Telecel Ghana as part of their SME month to run a session for SME’s on how to adopt sustainable practices in their organizations and the benefits this will bring to them including accessing funding for programs and projects as they collect and report E.SG. data. 15 selected SME’s benefited from the session.

On September 7th we had the pleasure of hosting a tourism trip to the Volta Region with a great group of people! This trip was a great chance for us to get out and enjoy the very nature we at Mckingtorch are fighting to protect as well as rejuvenate and reaffirm our commitment to doing

We at Mckingtorch Africa have been conducting some research on three major lorry stations in the city of Accra to document the plastic pollution problem and evaluate what is not being done right and what we can do to tackle the problem. Click on the link to access the research and share your feedback on

A few weeks into our ECOFEM training sessions which will last 3 months and these girls and women are already making their own products, with some even selling to people. They are staying behind after training to practice the skills of bag making, footwear making and earrings making and they have already made sample footwears,

This week, the women and girls in the ECOFEM Program started learning about tools and materials used in making earrings and tried their hands on their first set of earrings. Our facilitator Priscilla Agyeman the founder and CEO of Kor.Le.Kour took her time to teach and assist each participant to use the right tools to