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THE MANY ACCOMPLISHMENTS & ADVENTURES OF THE ECOFEM JEWELRY MAKING COHORT – 11/24/2024

Our amazing second cohort of recycled glass jewelry making training as part of the ECOFEM Project have officially completed their training thanks to Kor.Le.Kour’s Priscilla Korlekour Agyeman. During their weeks of training, the girls have had some amazing experience learning about photo modeling, product design, colour schemes and more.  To mark the conclusion of the […]

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MCKINGTORCH AFRICA’S CHRISTMAS TREES GO GLOBAL – 12/24/2024

This year, Mckingtorch Africa waste plastic bottle Christams trees made it to 4 contires over 2 contienets with trees in Ghana, Texas USA, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Mckingtorch Africa started making Plastic Waste Bottles Christmas Trees in 2017 when our Founder and CEO Makafui Awuku got frustrated by the plastic pollution problem and wanted to do

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Valuble Lessons Learned Through Mentorship Session for ECOFEM Participants – 11/05/2024

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

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Empowering Women Led Business: ECOFEM Mentoring Workshop for Women and Girls – 29/10/2024

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

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Josemaria International School Visits Mckingtorch Africa – 18/10/2024

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!

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Helping Keep Our Environment Clear: Mckingtorch Africa Donate Shovels to the Buzstop Boys – 15/10/2024

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

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Mckingtorch Africa Hosts Telecel: SME Training on Sustainability – 12/09/2024

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.

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Immense Plastic Waste in Lorry Stations: Mckingtorch Africa’s Research Report on the Issue- 31/08/2024

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

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