Wesley Methodist School Earns Second Green Flag in Ghana

Wesley Methodist School in Akosombo becoms second to earn the Green-Flag in West Africa!

Since we formally began the Eco-School program in July 2014, Wesley Methodist school has been an active partidipator in network meetings and more importantly in implementing their own action plan. Eco-Schhol Ghana has with great enthusiasem followed their development. It was therfore with great pride we witnessed West-Africas second Eco-School hoising their Green Flag. 

Eco-Schools Ghanas program Director Mrs Hilde Opoku meet of a traditional Kente girl and the Eco-Schools coordinator in Akosombo Mrs Margaret Ayernor and Mrs Gifty Manuh

The welcoming bouqet was made of popsticle plastics!

The guests of honor

Dir George Ahadzie of Green Earth Organization, who has the ownership to Eco-Schools in Ghana gives a speach on the urgency to act to save the environment in Ghana and elswere.

Program Dir of Eco-Schools Ghana presented a powerpoint on the possibilities for schools and local communities to work systematically towards sustainability through the methods of Eco-Schools.

The school has worked on a variety of themes: They have started waste seperation into three fractions; Paper, Plastics and food waste; The food waste is turned into manure and used in the school garden where they grow corn and plantain; they have also used water sachets in their art classes to see what other products it coud be reused for. At the certification program we saw a display of some of these, including sandals, purses, a rain cote etc; 





The school has also collected stones to make boundaries around the trees to stop erosion and regrow the gras on the students playing ground.

Protecting the the trees from creating erosion on the schools play ground

To hand out The Green flag, Eco-School ambassadors from Norway and Ghana had traveled from near and far to attend the event. It was a lovely seremoni in the Auditorium of the School. The entire student body of the School was present at the event and they all somehow contributed to it. For instans by welcoming all the guests by singing. 

The schools Eco-School Commitee also talked about their work towards beeing sertified and they preformed cultural displays and dances to the enjoyment of all present. Our program Director, Hilde Opoku, spoke to gave a power pont presentation to the audience on Eco-School, and congratulated the students with the hard work and the flag. She stressed the importance of what they are doing and thanked them for getting onboard for a sustainable development far beyond Akosombo. Teachers and Director George Ahadzie from The Greenearth Organisation also spoke on the same topics.

The students gave several wonderful cultural displays with traditional dancing and singing. A student also made an extraordinary presentation of the poem "I am the environment" Written by Eco-School coordinator in Akosombo Mrs Margaret Ayernoor.

Traditional dances by the students

After handing out a number of gifts, including wall posters from Eco-Schools Ghana on climate change, the event moved from the auditorium to the school court, where the flag was hoised.

VRA Complex II recive Climat campaign  posters from Eco-Schools Ghana, Students wor on Fairtrade from Brundalen Eco-School in Norway and Waste bins from EPA Ghana. VRA Complex nr II has registered to be come an Eco-School, We are hoping  they will be ready for certification next year. Mrs Gifty Manuh hands over to Mr Ernest Odoom. 

Eco-Schools Ambassadors from Ghana and Norway to hand over the flag to the school

The formal handing over of the flag to the Eco-School coordinator at Wesleys and the school prinsipal

The schools prefect getting ready to hoise the flag

Alongside the flag the school recieved wastebins from ghana Environmental Policy Agency (EPA). After The seremoni our Eco-school ambassadors got a tour of The schools campus to see for themself both the erosion protection and the school garden. They eaven got to taste some of the newly harvested corn and plantain. 

Plantain and mais from the school garden given to Eco-Schools Ghana representatives

All participants were finally invited for refreshments.

We salute Wesley Methodist School with their achivement and encourage them to keep up the god work!