Sowatey Junior High School to make over 200 Ghana cedis from Lettuce cultivation

Sowatey Junior High School is  located in Suhum, Kraboa and Coaltar district in  eastern region Ghana. There are 50 4-H members in the school. 27 seven are boys and 23 are girls. 4-H Ghana provided them with vegetables seeds from 5 different vegetable families to enable the kids practise crop rotation. Cabbage, carrot and Sweet pepper seedlings were washed by run off water after heavy down pour of rain. only the lettuce survived.  Members constructed furrows and transplanted the lettuce. The crops are doing well and most have attained maturity. Mrs Gifty Torgbenu, the headteacher of the school said that on harvest they will make over 200 Ghana cedis. "It is our first time to engage in vegetable enterprise", she added.  


Gifty Torgbenu, headteacher of  Sowatey school



4-H members inspecting lettuce for pest and diseases

Ofosu Asamoah, the project coordinator talking to the club advisor

4-H members, Teaching staff and mangement committee

Demonstrating Nursery techniques to Adweso SDA Junior High school 4-H



Preparing Nursery beds

 ofosu Asamoah, 4-H Enterprise Garden project coordinator demonstrating nursing techinques to 4-H members 

                           


Mr Budu, the club advisor watering the beds

Members digging Nursery beds



Promoting alternative gardening

Trom Basic School is located in New Juabeng Municipality, eastern region, Ghana.The school does not have enough land to go into large scale farming. 4-H members of the school decided to do alternative gardening instead. The kids are using one of the classsroom as their nursery. Vegetable seeds provided by 4-H Ghana to the kids were nursed in paper boxes. Members are waiting to transplant seedlings to polybags, rubber containers and square meter plot.

working in "paper box" nursery

Management Committee Meets with Club Advisors, Kwabeng Atiwa district, Ghana

Management committee

Mr Appiah Kwaku Boateng, Executive director  4-H Ghana, and Ofosu Asamoah, Project coordinator 4-H Enterprise Gardens meets with management committee members and club advisors to discuss issues affecting implementation of Enterprise Garden project in the distict. The meeting was held on Tuesday, 29th May, 2012 at 2:30PM in the afternoon, inside Kwabeng Presby Primary school classroom, Kwabeng –Atiwa district, eastern region, Ghana
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Club Advisors

Discussions were centered on payment of club advisors allowances, monthly monitoring visit to clubs and distribution of garden tools. Mr Kwaku Boateng advised the committee to visit clubs regularly. Club advisors should help the kids to keep records of all activities done on the farm. He said that kids love fun so 4-H should be like a fun club. He encouraged the club advisors to use local dialect to help the kids understand the 4-H concept.