Pachamama Alliance of Oregon

The aim of Green Earth Organization is to help halt environment degradation, conserve and restore the environment geared toward sustainable development.

Objectives/Purpose

• To promote and undertake tree planting 
• To promote and undertake water conservation activities
• To educate the public to create awareness on the need to protect the environment
• To promote development that mainstreams environment conservation and gender equity
• To engage in policy analysis, lobby and advocacy towards sustainable use of natural resource
• Energy conservation activities 
• Forest and biodiversity conservation activities.

Expanded Area of Activities

GEO has expanded its activities in lobby and advocacy towards sustainable management of the forest. Besides, it has as part of its policy changes, ensured that all projects that are planned and implemented, to mainstream gender needs.

In addition to that, most programmes planned have mainstreamed poverty  reduction activities to address the fundamental cause of environment degradation which tend to undermine protection of the environment and sustainable development.   Another major activity is education to create awareness about the danger of HIV/AIDs pandemic.

• World Environment Day was celebrated in Kumasi with second cycle schools in the Kumasi Metropolis with 10 second cycle schools participating to create awareness about the need to protect the environment – 10 June 2004.

• Undertook wetlands restoration project to preserve and maintain the ecosystem to support  livelihood in Songhor ramsar site in Ada from January – December 2004.

• Publication on water in the Green Dove highlighting on the importance of water and the needto protect water resources. Issue No. 36 – December 2005.

• Wetland restoration project to  protect the Keta wetlands  and to support the citizens’ livelihood at Keta ramser site in Volta Region from May 2006 – April 2007.

• The organisation published issues on climate change, covering causes and effects in its news letter the Green Dove. Issue No. 35 published in August 2005.

• Workshop and field trip were organized for teachers from second cycle institutions drawn from forty secondary schools from Volta, Eastern, Central, Ashanti regions. Other participants came from Greater Accra and Western regions.  The workshop was to get teachers and students involved in advocacy lobby and campaign against forest destruction. At Catholic Pastoral training Centre Akwadum near Koforidua – October 2005.

• Green Earth Organization trained 40 women in fuel efficient stove construction to reduce amount of fuel wood use daily to reduce pressure on the destruction of the forest at Ada – May 2005.

• Green Earth Organization nursed 10,000 seedlings and distributed to communities to plant in Ada and Keta to encourage agro forestry and to provide the people with fuel energy in future at Keta – February 2006.

• Equipping civil society group on lobby and advocacy skill towards the protection of the forest resource at Kumasi – March 2006. 

• Participated in stakeholders workshop on Forest Certification by the Friends of the Earth Ghana on the theme “Certification and sustainable forest management in Ghana” – March 2006.

• Participated in national Desertification programme in preparation towards United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Accra organized by the Friends of the Earth Ghana on the theme “Desertification the neglected menace” - November 2006.

• Research on the impact of using environmental newspaper to carry out environmental education and awareness creation among readers - August-December 2006.

• Seminar was held on wetlands to educate the public on the importance f wetland.  And World Wetlands Day was observed with a seminar in conjunction with Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission on the theme Wetlands support fisheries – Keep them healthy in Accra – February 2006.

• Sixty-five (65) women were trained in proper use of agro chemical in Keta to minimize agro chemical contamination of agricultural land at Keta – February 2007.