About us Green Erath Organization

We are delighted to announce that Eco-Schools in 2014 was introduced to Ghana as Green Earth Organization was given permit to formally run the program on behalf of its owner the Foundation of Environmental Education (FEE).

Green Earth Organisation is one of the oldest and most popular environment protection groups in Ghana. It was initiated in 1983 by a group of secondary students, moved by an environmental crisis in the country whit lack of rain and increasingly hot weather. 

Our first activity was to educate farmers and farming communities to change their routines to become compatible with the new situation. Since then Ghana has changed considerably, all though still mainly a population of peasant – a growing economy has lead to environmental challenges of a different character. Particularly the urban areas are growing and new forms of consumption patterns have led to waste, energy and sanitation issues that are quite different from 1983. 

Although GEO has continued its rural environment and development training, we have expanded our activities to also include energy, waste management, chemical issues etc, and are now excited to use our knowledge in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service and the Environmental Policy Agency that has endorsed our introduction of Eco-Schools to Ghana.

Executive Director, 

George Ahadzie

Our office and conference facilities at Nsawam, greater Accra

CONTACT US:

Green Earth Organization

P. O. Box AN 16641 Accra-North, Ghana

Tel: 233-03421 22304 (Nsawam) 

Fax: 233-0302-230455

Cell: 233-0208184091

Email: greeneth@ghana.com 
Email: ecoschoolghana@gmail.com

OUR ECO-SCHOOLS SPECIAL ADVISORS

Hilde Opoku, senior consultant

Mrs Hilde Opoku is educated in Environmental Politics, Anthropology and Industrial Ecology. She has been central in the  implementation of Eco-Schools in Norway both through NGO work, and as a politician.

In 2003 she initiated an exchange program between schools in Norway and Ghana that for several years became the pilot project for the current Eco-Schools Ghana program. Mrs Opoku is now serving as a senior advisor to Green Earth Organization on the development and implementation of the Green Flag certification system that form the basis of the Eco-Schools program.

Mrs Opoku can be reached on:  hilde.opoku@gmail.com

Margaret Ayernor, special advisor

Patience Gbogbo, project officer

Mrs Margaret Ayernor is a senior teacher and inspector at Akosombo International School. She came to Norway in 2008 and was trained on the Eco-Schools principals. 

Mrs Ayernor has since then together with her collages worked with stamina to introduce several sustainability projects in all the AIS schools and their communities. She is now formally the Eco-School coordinator and is actively recruiting new schools to the Eco-School family. 

Mrs Ayernor can be reached at: dediamond2000@yahoo.co.uk.



Mrs Patience Gbogbo works as a project officer for a number of Green Earth Organizations projects, including the Eco-Schools program.

Mrs Gbogbo coordinate contacts and facilitates our arrangements.

You reach her through: greeneth@ghana.com