Mckingtorch Africa

Meet McKenna North. McKenna is not our first volunteer from Canada. She is our fourth but McKenna is our first WUSC Ghana volunteer and our first volunteer who will be engaged with us for a period of 8 months (June 2024 – February 2025). McKenna will be supporting us in the area of circular economy […]

On August 20th, the founder and CEO of Kor.Le.Kour, Priscilla Agyeman, kicked off our jewelry making out of recycled glass training sessions as part of our ECOFEM program. The first session was on color theory as the women learnt about colors and how to combine them for fashion products. By the end of the several

On August 13th, we had the honor of hosting one of our partners, Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO), Air Pollution/Quality Program entitled Youth Conversations on Clear Air at our facility in Adenta as we all keep working to achieve cleaner and safer air for our people. The event seeked to bring together young people and

August 6th marked the start of the next cohort in the Mckingtorch ECOFEM program for women, girls and other youth. Over the next 3 months our participants will be involved in an intensive period of bag making training and create fashion accessories from recycled materials. This second cohort of the ECOFEM environmental sustainability and recycling

In 2019, our CEO had the privilege of contributing to Ghana’s National Plastic Waste Management Policy that was launched by the president of Ghana in 2019 and passed into law by the Parliament of Ghana in 2020. Four years later, he got an invitation from the Parliament of Ghana to sit on a panel to

Meet Teaghan and Zion! We had the pleasure of having these 2 Canadian students join our team as interns through the AFS program. They were with us for a period of 3 months, May to July 2024. During their time in Ghana with us, they worked to support the growth of the organization. We wish

Replicating relevant sustainable waste management practices on the continent has been the dream from the beginning with Mckingtorch Africa. African countries share similar problems and if we can make interventions accessible around the continent we will solve these problems. At Mckingorch Africa we committed to making this happen and we are excited to have launched

Mckingtorch Africa partnered with Ecobank Ghana PLC for their sustainability week celebrations in various ways The key way Mckingtorch did so was by making many waste tire and waste gallons hand wash bins for Saint Paul’s Senior School in Denu. At the school, the Mckingtorch team also engaged the students in various upcycling activities to

We had ur first facility tour on March 1st when Mars Hill School Complex Junior High came through for a tour, a talk on environmental sustainability and upcycling activities where they learnt how to use basic tools to make relevant everyday items from plastic waste. It is important to not just talk to young ones

Today was another significant turning point in the empowerment journey that Mckingtorch Africa’s project, which aims to empower women in recycling, has been on. The program’s tangible outcomes are becoming more apparent as the women participating apply their newly acquired knowledge, especially in the creative field of slipper making. The programme, which aims to use