Tree Aid's work in Ghana

Ghana

Ghana is a country in West Africa, similar in size to the UK. In northern Ghana, where Tree Aid has been working since 1994, people’s daily lives and livelihoods are devastated by a drastic reduction in fertile land and the climate crisis. People are struggling to grow enough food and poverty is increasing. Around half of the people living in northern Ghana are living in poverty.

Our projects in Ghana are working to change this.

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hectares of forest lost between 1990-2011
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people live in extreme poverty
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people suffer from food insecurity

Our projects

In 2019/20, across all of our projects in Ghana, we helped almost 10,000 people to grow nearly 500,000 trees. We also worked with 138 new village tree enterprise groups, supporting them to make and sell tree products.

Find out more about our projects, past and present, in Ghana.

Mbole with his degraded land in Bongo, Ghana. Photo credit Rowan Griffiths, Daily Mirror.

In progress

Bongo reforestation

A group of women that are part of a shea enterprise group standing around bags of shea nuts they have collected and smiling and laughing.

In progress

Grow Hope: developing sustainable businesses

A women washing her face in the Daka river in Ghana.

Completed

Restoring the Daka River

Gifty, a mother in Ghana, smiling as she works on her farm tending to her crops.

In progress

Growing cashew enterprises

A man in northern Ghana tending to his land.

In progress

Transforming land and livelihoods in Ghana

Our impact in Ghana in 2019/20

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trees grown
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people helped
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new enterprise groups supported

The Great Green Wall

Tree Aid is working with communities across Africa to grow trees and restore land in support of the Great Green Wall movement. This African-led initiative envisages an 8,000km mosaic of restored land across the Sahel that will transform the lives of millions living on the frontline of the climate crisis.