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  1. Anita Onumah displays green chilli worth 5US$ during launch of AGRA's FOSCA Project in Accra, Ghana.  Photo by Isaiah Esipisu

    Using Smallholder Farmer-Groups to Dig Out Poverty

    10 May 2012 15:52 BST | Comments (0)

    Isaiah Esipisu | TrustMedia Alumni Blog

    After years of dependence of food aid in the semi-arid Eastern Kenya, Stephen Mwangani from Kinyatta village in Yatta ...

  2. A nurse prepares a vaccine in this file picture. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

    Ghana vaccine initiative: tragedy, hope and raw determination

    23 April 2012 16:49 BST | Comments (0)

    Dan Thomas | Health and Science

    A film portrays the skill, wit and energy that Ghanaian health professionals are investing in a new initiative, writes Dan ...

  3. Dried cocoa beans are packed in hessian sacks on a cocoa farm near Amankwakram in Western Ghana. February 14, 2011.. REUTERS/Hereward Holland

    Q+A - Divine Chocolate’s Sophi Tranchell on good business, empowering women and social enterprise funding trends

    05 April 2012 17:16 BST | Comments (0)

    astrid-zweynert | Social Enterprise

    Cocoa farmers in Ghana are benefitting from ownership of a Fairtrade company thanks to a partnership with Divine Chocolate

  4. This photo by Peter Dicampo shows children reading the Koran by flashlight at a mosque in Wantugu, Ghana

    Photo exhibition in dark sheds light on energy poverty

    10 February 2012 15:38 GMT | Comments (1)

    Rebekah Curtis | AlertNet News Blog

    Exhibition viewed with solar lights shows difficulties faced by 1.5 bln people who live without electricity

  5. Married Ghanaian girls quitting school - paper

    28 September 2011 16:50 BST | Comments (0)

    George Fominyen | TrustLaw Scrapbook

    Officials urge parents, teachers to encourage girls to continue their education

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