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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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ECOFEM Participants Make Great Strides in their Trainings- 28/08/2024

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,

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Empowering Women Recycling: ECOFEM Jewelry Making from Recycled Glass- 27/08/2024

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

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Turing Waste into Beautiful Jewelry: The Start of the ECOFEM Recycled Material Jewelry Making Workshops – 20/08/2024

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

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Youth Conversation on Clear Air: Hosting Green Africa Youth Organization at Mckingtorch – 13/08/2024

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

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Empowering Women through the Power of Recycling: The ECOFEM Bag Making Cohort – 06/08/2024

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

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