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 […]
Semester at Sea Visits Mckingtorch Africa – 10/10/2024 Read More »
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.
Mckingtorch Africa Hosts Telecel: SME Training on Sustainability – 12/09/2024 Read More »
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
Mckingtorch Africa Explores Nature: Our Tourism Trip – 07/09/2024 Read More »
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,
ECOFEM Participants Make Great Strides in their Trainings- 28/08/2024 Read More »
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
Empowering Women Recycling: ECOFEM Jewelry Making from Recycled Glass- 27/08/2024 Read More »
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
Meet McKenna – 26/08/2024 Read More »
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
