Each year, we and our partner, the Rural Development Organization, will educate about 100 young Gambians in commercial vegetable gardening. But what exactly does the two year long program include? Which topics will be discussed? more…
Meet the applicants for the Gambian Youth Project
With the new Gambian Youth Project we want to give unemployed youth the opportunity to receive a specialized training and earn their living as agricultural entrepreneurs. But who are these young people and what do they hope to gain from such a project? Find out more about their hopes and dreams in four short interviews more…
We are starting a new training program in Gambia. Why?
Starting 2019 we will start a new work and training program for unemployed youth and repatriated migrants in The Gambia. The idea arose out of a bitter necessity. more…
Chereponi, Ghana: More women want to fertilize soy fields.
Last year’s fertilizing measures in the Anoshe Women project in northeastern Ghana were so successful, that 148 more women want to participate in the project and fertilize their soy fields this year. more…
Dutabullu is building its first greenhouses
In order to win the big coastal hotels as customers for their vegetables, the farmers in Dutabullu need to guarantee a continuous supply of tomatoes, onions, salad and more. For that they will have to plant throughout the rainy season and for that they need greenhouses. Read more…
Composting in North-East Ghana
With it’s short growing season and without any livestock, composting was and is not a common practice in the Savannah of north-eastern Ghana. But it’s crucial, to keep the fields fruitful.
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Success and Failure – Two Small Business Portraits
Asibi Azumbela and Majeed Yahaya are two out of 31 borrowers in Ghana, who received financial support in 2017 for the implementation of their business ideas. Read two portraits.
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Processing soybeans as additional income
What startet as as a workshop two years ago, is now being implemented – a few women of the Anoshe Women Group in the north-east of Ghana have started processing the soybeans into wagashi (a type of tofu) and are thus able to generate an additional income for themselves and their families.
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First 30 Anoshe Women receive microloan
The microcredits are supposed to enable the farmers of the Anoshe project to generate an additional income between the harvesting phases. In the first round, loans were given to 30 women.
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NEW: microcredit program starts in northern Ghana
Due to the high demand, the First Step Foundation now also grants microcredits to the women of the Anoshe Women Group in the north of Ghana. more…