News from KITA
We received an email yesterday from Lovans Owusu-Takyi who administers the Institute of Tropical Agriculture (KITA) in Ghana and share it with you below. There is much going on with KITA these days!!
Permaworld team member Iain designed the KITA website, updates web text and information and we register their domain name and host their web site for them. We are happy to be of service to this progressive and beneficial organization in Ghana.....
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Hi Brother Iain,
It's a great pleasure to write back to you again.
Hope you're fine and all the brethren at Permaworld
Foundation.
KITA HOST RADIO FORUM ON ORGANIC FARMING!
Students of KITA begins a series of public radio
education of permaculture and organic farming on Ash
FM in the Kumasi Metropolis.
Students handled topics on applicable permaculture in
Ghana. There was an interesting debate on air on the
sustainability of organic farming in Ghana and people
phoned in from all over the region to ask questions of
various kinds.
These KITA students have originally partaken in
Fundamentals of Permaculture course organised by KITA
and Permaculture NETWORK in the EXPO Hotel in Techiman
which was facilitated by Gregg Knibbs of Australia.
IT was a well participated program and the next public
radio educational program is scheduled to be held in
the last weeks in June.
KITA - VILLAGE VOLUNTEERS PARTNERSHIP!
KITA is linked up with Village Volunteers
International to open opportunity for volunteers from
all over the world to visit Ghana and share in the
experience of the Ghanaian Hospitality and to help
improve the lives of the rural farmers. The rural
farmer has been graded among the poorest of the poor
in Ghana. KITA is linking up with volunteer
organisations for community development work in the
villages. it will be great to interact with women and
children and the youth in the rural areas and help
them improve upon their lives ranging from nutrition,
education, improved farming skills and health.
KITA Undertakes Youth Leadership Training in the
Surrounding Communities.
Youth in the Junior and Senior High Schools around the
surrounding villages around KITA is to have the
opportunity to be trained in Various leadership skills
to help them live examplary lives and learn new
behavioural traits.
This training is being facilitated by KEVIN STUMP of
the Village Volunteers who arrived in Ghana on Sunday
3rd June 2007. Topics being treated ranges from
responsibility, goal setting, vision, mentoring,
courage, community service and career development.
This training programs is to shape the focus of the
youth in the villages to set good standards of
behavoiur and lead by examplary service in the
community.
KITA is making great strides in the development of
Agriculture in Ghana and the West African Sub-region.
KITA - PPPF Cooperation:
KITA Donates Bicycles and Farm Inputs to Rural Farming
Families in Essienimpong in the Ejisu Juaben District.
KITA and the Perpertual Prosperity Pump Foundation in
the USA has donated a number of farm inputs and
provided training for 10 farmers and their families
including women farmers in various farm enterprises
ranging from Vegetable Production, Rabbitry, Mushroom
Production, Oil palm plantation farming, Poultry and
Beekeeping.
These training projects are meant to empower purely
farming families to improve their incomes on a
sustainable basis by adding other farm enterprises to
their normal farm activities that are able to double
their yearly income by more than 300%
The farmers reccieved training in all the programs
mentioned above and recieved farm inputs to improve
their farming practices. the Donation was launched by
Jim Riordan of PPPF USA and Samuel Owusu-Takyi the
Senior Technical Officer of KITA.
AT KITA we care for the rural people. we look forward
to improving the farming practice in Ghana through
sustainable permaculture technology and to help
improve the living standards of the rural poor
especially the food crop farmer in Ghana.
MORE soon.
It'll be great to hear from you brohter.
How are things moving on at permaworld foundation.
please write back!
