Women Fight Poverty Through Pottery Production

Over 500 women in Tanoso in the Tano North District of the Brong Ahafo Region are fighting poverty by engaging in pottery production, which they transport to other parts of the country to sell.

Pottery is the main work of the women in the Tanoso community, with few of them engaging in peasant farming and petty trading. Their products including earthenware pot, bowl and flower vase are exported to Togo and Ivory Coast. Locally they sell to consumers at Elubo, Accra, Kumasi and other places.

Christiana Donsah, a 56-year-old potter told XYZ Business that she has been in pottery for the past 15 years and has benefited immensely from the trade. She sells averagely one thousand pieces of earthenware bowls, which are approximately GH700 cedis, a month.