LINDLEY WITBOOI Vice President and Head of Finance. Vice President and Head of Human Resources and Corporate Affairs. Eric is a young Ghanaian education activist.CASPER DZORMEKU Manager, Asanko Joint Venture. He also worked with the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre(GIPC), attracting investments in Ghana.Scaling Up Fridays for Future outside AccraMeet Eric Edem Agbana, a member of DOTs 2018 Youth Leadership Advisory Board (YouthLAB) representing Ghana. He previously worked with International Enterprise Singapore (now Enterprise Singapore), where he developed market entry strategies and led the growth of several Singapore companies into West Africa. Edem is a Partner at Firmus Advisory.

In 2020, he led a national training programme called the Ghana Youth Environment Programme ( GYEP) with the purpose of leveraging the power of the largest group of Ghanaian population вЂ“ the under 25-year-olds. From this experience, Perk realised the importance of including young people outside the capital to join this global conversation. The GYEM aims to raise awareness about the need for all citizens to act in protection of the environment and future generations and to demand to the government to act in alignment to its promises to protect the right to life of all Ghanaians. In 2019, he was extremely active organising and mobilising young people in Accra as part of the global climate strike #FridaysForFuture. MICHAEL EDEM AKAFIA Vice President and Head of Legal and Compliance.Perk is a graphic designer from Ghana who serves as national coordinator for the Ghana Young Environment Movement (GYEM) in his activist time.

Of course, it took time for Perk to adjust his plans, establish new ways of working and set up virtual connections with the 281 young people all across Ghana who signed up for the trainings. With the extra US$2,000 provided by the Lab to support digital transitions, Perk secured a fibre-optic internet connection and a Zoom licence for the entire year, which allowed him to run virtual training workshops. Access to telecommunications and reliable electricity sources is a daily barrier for all people, but especially youth. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, Perk had to embrace one of the biggest challenges in Ghana and in many countries in the global South, the digital divide.

Therefore, Ghanaian youth are creating and (re) claiming civil spaces to take action on the environment and the GYEP provides the platform to do just that.вЂњ Using your skills or talents to mobilise for change that impacts today and future generations exudes the true spirit of activism. Young people, women and children are the most vulnerable and are hard hit by the impact of these crises. Climate change, especially, is affecting the countryвЂ™s agricultural productivity and food security, vital water resources and energy supply. Through this, the youth climate movement in Ghana seeks to gain extensive coverage in every part of the country, reaching and supporting groups and communities in every nook and cranny of Ghana to run campaigns that raise awareness from the bottom to the top.Ghana currently faces a host of environmental problems such as deforestation, land degradation, water pollution, poor sanitation and waste management practices and climate crisis. They are being empowered with the tools, techniques and technology to self- organise and start a movement in their communities while building alliances with other activists and groups to strengthen their voice.

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