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.

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 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.

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 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!