Fight Against Climate Change: KMA selects 14 youth groups for campaign

Fourteen youth groups in the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) have benefitted from the Youth Climate Action Fund of $50,000.00.

At the event, the Mayor of KMA, Mr Samuel Pyne, urged the youth groups to give the programme their best shot, adding that effective utilisation of the first consignment of the funds would qualify the Assembly for another $100,000.00.

He added that a monitoring team would assess the progress of work by the youth groups, indicating that microgrant payments would be made in tranches upon authorities' satisfaction with work done from now until the end of September 2024.

Mr Prince Anokye, a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Planning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), noted that the youth groups were selected based on the parameters of the KMA and Bloomberg Philanthropies.

The beneficiaries are expected to initiate solutions to climate change that are in sync with local context and objectives.

Bloomberg Philanthropies launched the Youth Climate Action Fund (YCAF) following the report that 84 per cent of youth have expressed worries about the devastating effects of climate change on people and the planet.

The selected groups are Agritradehub, Earth Guardians, Ghana Association of Students Planners/ KNUST Sustainable Green Future Club, Plant, and Dabethon Group.

The rest are Climate Action Network, Team Sustinere, the Green Guardians of Kumasi, Akwatia Line Scrap Sellers Association, Adoato Executive Club, Center Youth and Literacy Development and Responsibilities Initiative Ghana with two separate but usable proposals.