Projects & Accomplishments

EDYM Staff

Projects

• EDYM Village
• Training Workshops
• Weto Range Conservation Initiative
• Support to local governance (SLG)
• HIV/ AIDS education
• Moringa farm
• Junior Environmentalist's Club (JEC)

Accomplishments

Past accomplishments:

• Rated 'most active' environment NGO in the Volta region by the Ministry of Environment Science and Technology in 1998 and 2004
• The establishment of EDYM Village, a training and demonstration center with various forms of economically friendly agricultural practices
• The undertaking of tree growing and community afforestation projects

EDYM's five year development (2004 - 2008) activities include:

• Executed, in partnership with CBUD, a project to reclaim and replant lands degraded at Ayamfuri mines on behalf of Anglo-Gold Ashanti
• Trained 80 youth in snail rearing and Indigenous Leafy Vegetable (ILV) production
• Trained 50 people in grasscutter breeding
• Trained 25 Peace Corps Volunteers in budding and grafting, and organic farming techniques (2004 & 2005)
• Donated 3000 seedlings of Polyathia spp. to E.U. Micro Projects for planting at their project sites in the Volta region (2004)
• Establishment of three Junior Environmentalist Clubs at the JSS level
• Weto forest conservation project commence in earnest (2006)