Sunday, 27 May 2012

The Beautiful 4-H Garden


 at Bosuso Islamic Junior High School, Fanteakwa district, Eastern Region, Ghana


entrance of the garden
Bosuso School
Headteacher, club advisor and 4-H Members
Bosuso 4-H engage more girls
picking weeds
boys doing hand picking
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The beautiful garden
Bosuso 4-H garden



Saturday, 26 May 2012

4-H Ghana Enterprise Garden Project Staff tour Saviour Junior High School 4-H site

Saviour Junior High School 4-H, East Akim district, Eastern Region,Ghana
growing lettuce in poly bags
members keeping records on Alternative garden


Club advisor with members
4-H members clearing land
Savoiur School 4-H Maize Farm
Saviour School 4-H members



Friday, 25 May 2012

4-H Ghana Enterprise Garden Project staff embarks on Monitoring visit to 4-H clubs.

Enterprise garden Project Staff visits Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana Junior High School 4-H Club

headteacher of the school

The headteacher of the school plans to introduce 4-H Ghana to the  Parent Teacher Association. He also wants  to include  4-H club activities as part of the their 25th Anniversary celebration. He was very happy that 4-H had come to stay.
Executives of the school 4-H club
Members prepared 50 beds for transplanting of vegetable seedlings


All the students want to become members of 4-H
We can't wait to join 4-H

There is Joy in 4-H
Members in group Photo

Thursday, 24 May 2012

DuPont and National 4-H Council visits Ghana

Bob Walker briefing Jim Borel
 Jim Borel, Vice Chair of DuPont and Donald T. Floyd, president and CEO National 4-H Council and their team visited 4-H clubs in Akuapim North District, Eastern region, Ghana . The two were accompanied by USAID team, Jon Vandenheuvel, President of Atlantic Farms,  Bob Walker, DuPont representative for Africa, and Rajjar Najar, CEO New Agricultural Service, Ghana.




Kwamoso 4-H Maize farm
Kwamoso 4-H club members are made up of 7 females and 5 males. The group have planted 20 Acres of Corn featuring 10 Acres of Pioneer hybrid  and 10 Acres of "Obatanpa" a local variety in Ghana. The other 4-H clubs in the district have also planted 12 Acres of Pioneer hybrid corn.






Jim, Don, Boat and Kwamoso 4-H members
The team toured Kwamoso 4-H and Nana Ankobea Takyiwa Primary school 4-H site after meeting with the minister of local government and rural development  and minister of Agriculture in Accra.

Tuesday, 22 May 2012

4-H Ghana distributes 1,204 gardening tools

Project staff and Management committee members looking on
4-H Ghana procured 1,204 gardening tools on 20th March, 2012, and distributed to 120 4-H clubs in 12 selected districts. The tools included 120 watering can ,120 mattock, 120 spade,120 Hoe, 124 Cutlass,120 Garden fork,120 hand trowel,120 garden line, and 120 Measuring tape.