NEWS IN GHANA

The National Chairman of the Informal Waste Pickers’ Group, Mr. Johnson Doe, has appealed to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to give listening ears to the plights of the Informal Waste Pickers and Collectors in the country.  He also called on the President to address their issues to help achieve his noble vision of making Accra the cleanest city in West Africa.  Speaking in an interview on the sidelines at a virtual event organized by Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO) in Accra on Friday, March 5, 2021, to commemorate this year’s International Waste Pickers’ Day (IWPD), Mr. Johnson Doe said: “Yes, the president’s vision can be achieved if he involves us (pickers and collectors) in decision-making processes in the waste management systems particularly at the district level and we really deserve to be recognized as well. We will equally need a clinic to be set aside for waste collectors and pickers based on the unfortunate experiences that we have in accessing healthcar

  The National Focal Person (NFP) of the Global Network of Civil Society Organizations for Disaster Reduction (GNDR) in Ghana, Grace Commey has called on government and its agencies to help give the network the needed backing, opportunities and above all an effective collaboration to bring an end to issues of disaster in the country. According to her, the success of GNDR in Ghana depends solely on the support of government, its agencies including the relevant stakeholders owing to its operations being championed by lots of civil society organizations (CSOs) who are its members, committed to working assiduously to help prevent, mitigate risks and above all improve the lives of people affected by disaster, hence the need for the support. “I’m appealing to the government to help collaborate with us, it should give us the opportunity to work particularly with its various agencies and stakeholders. It should also endeavor to embrace our strategy that we’ll be using to work within the lo