SANATU ZAMBANG STUDIOS (Podcast)

Women's Groups Empowered with Alternative Livelihood Skills Traditionally women in Northern Ghana play a major role in farming-land preparation, tilling, sowing, weeding, which are unpaid jobs. However, the same related work has become an alternative livelihood income generation venture for three women groups in the catchment area of botanga irrigation scheme in Kumbungu district of the Northern Region of Ghana. The Feed the Future Ghana Agricultural Technology Transfer project introduced urea deep placement ( UDP ) and other good agricultural practices in the region, leading to the training of three women groups from the local communities of Saakoba Gbugli, Kukuo and Yipelgu, on how to transplant in lines, control weeds and apply briquettes urea fertilizer on rice farms. Two months after training, Madam Fatimata Abdullah, mother of four and a leading member of the Saakoba women group, says she has made good income to support her family, " I used the money I made to bu...

FEED THE FUTURE GHANA AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PROJECT The Feed the Future Ghana Technology and Transfer Project ( ATT ). Increase the availability of appropriate and affordable technologies to improve the competitiveness of maize, rice and soya value chains in Northern Ghana in a sustainable way. USAID/Ghana is funding the project for a period of five years with $22 million, schedule to end April 2018. ATT improves the performance of Ghana agricultural research and extension system by creating a private sector led agricultural technology transfer mechanism, linking research, extension service and producers to a market driven approach to technology development and dissemination. Main stakeholders include producers, agro-input dealers, farm service providers, private sector actors involved in seed and fertilizer production and distribution, research institutions and laboratories, as well as government and regulatory bodies responsible for creating and maintaining an enabli...

Parenting or child rearing is the process of promoting and supporting the physical, emotional, social, financial, and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood. Parenting refers to the aspects of raising a child aside from the biological relationship. The most common caretaker in parenting is the biological parent(s) of the child in question, although others may be an older sibling, a grandparent, a legal guardian, aunt, uncle or other family member, or a family friend. Governments and society may have a role in child-rearing as well. In many cases, orphaned or abandoned children receive parental care from non-parent blood relations. Others may be adopted, raised in foster care, or placed in an orphanage. Parenting skills vary, and a parent with good parenting skills may be referred to as a good parent. The English pediatrician and psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott described the concept of "good-enough" parenting in which a minimum of prerequisites for healt...

An accessible toilet is a special toilet designed to accommodate people with physical disabilities. Public toilets and restrooms can present accessibility challenges for people with disabilities, for example those in wheelchairs. Stalls may not be able to fit a wheelchair, and transferring between the wheelchair and the toilet seat may pose a challenge. Accessible toilets are designed to address these issues by providing more space and bars for users to grab and hold during transfers. Legal requirements Some countries have requirements for public restrooms to ensure accessibility. In the United States, most new construction for public use must be built to ADA standards for accessibility. In the United Kingdom, the Equality Act 2010 requires organizations and businesses to make adjustments to meet the needs of people with disabilities. Recommendations appearing in legal requirements The following recommendations are becoming more common in public toilet facilities, as part of a tr...

Networking among farmers stick holders in the agricultural sector and Agric input dealers has been a major problem facing northern farmers for decades. That is why the Ghana Agric-input dealers Association (GAIDA) in collaboration with IFDC and USAID/Ghana's Feed the Future Advance II Program, held the 3rd Northern Ghana Annual Pre-Session Planning and Networking forum in April last year. The theme of the forum was Technology Application for Improved Agricultural Production, the event brought together 400 value chain actors along the rice, maize and soya beans commodity. This will help them establish direct market linkages prior to the planting season. Farmers, input dealers, importers, equipment dealers, seed growers, mechanisation service providers, ICT firms and financial institutions from and across Ghana came under one roof, to improve technology for agricultural production, improving yields and safe guarding the environment and ICT application for agricultural informat...

Tamale Girls & Education They say " when you educate a girl, you change everything ". From my view for the last 10 years i find this quote sinking. looking at where I come from. Out of 100% of the girls in Tamale only 25% are serious. The rest are very busy with makeup, cloths, Photoshop, IPhone and rich boyfriends. I look at the number of NGO companies in Tamale ready, willing and helping young girls. yet our girls are not serious. Things are getting out of hand, even to an extent the girls video themselves smoking, drinking alcohol and intentionally post nude pictures of themselves on social media. In June 2015, Friday 5th. I paid a visit to a primary school, luckily one of the teachers there was a friend. After the usual greetings I asked of the performance of the students, he told me they were picking up just that a girl in primary 4 is pregnant and does not even know who is responsible. So the headteacher had assigned him to help her parents find out the guys ...

For years now, the big men in expensive suits are always arguing about the disability act and nothing has been done, others only think of how to make their offices, Mall, banks etc. stairs easy for disabled people. Frankly that's not the only problem they face. As to whether they have chosen to ignore or they don't know, I can't best tell If guilt could kill, the world would have ended long ago, I personally feel guilty after see a picture of a disabled young boy visit the toilet with no crouches. My friend Kola Nut posted the picture with this caption '' So I'm on my way to #AYWO Reading n Writing Clinic and I pass by this scene at a local public toilet. The guy has parked his wheel chair and gone in to use the facility. This really set me thinking and wondering how disability friendly are our public places especially local toilets like these? #Shit4Thought #TamaleChronicles '' First I took a look the the toilet facility, everything of the toil...