LG Electronics FZE in partnership with Korea Friends for Hope International has launched the 2022 open competition for solutions, to help solve problems in local communities in northern Ghana.
Dubbed, “Win big in the LG Ambassador challenge”, a total of GH¢180,000 has been voted to support beneficiary communities in the northern parts of Ghana with the aim to assist them to help improve their lot.
For the 2022 competition, the beneficiary communities are to solve some community problems in the areas of education, water, sanitation and animal farming.
Three selected participants will be given a seed capital of GH¢60,000 each.
LG Electronics FZE says it recognises that many communities are faced with many problems which require everyone’s effort in dealing with them.
How to Participate
Interested participants are to suggest ideas through google docs and LG Electronics will select the best ideas and provide the financial support necessary for problem solving. (Up to GH¢60,000).
Entries are opened from January 10, 2022, to March 6, 2022, to be followed by the announcement of selected communities on March 24, 2022.
Maiden edition
In the maiden edition in 2021, three winners were awarded the cash prize of GH¢50,000 each.
The winners were from the Karimenga community for ecological farming, the Boko community for bakery, and the Dagmweo community for weaving.
The weaving project, selected as LG Ambassador at the suggestion of Ateere Eric of the Dagmweo Community, selected women with children under the age of five to provide smock vocational training, traditional weaving in northern Ghana.
As a result of the programme, which first began in March 2021, and has been running for about a year, participating women are earning income by selling smock fabrics already after learning the skills of weaving smock.
Michael Baba of the Boko community on the other hand was selected as an LG Ambassador for proposing a bakery project.
The project selected single-parent women to provide bakery education and supported the machines and ingredients needed to bake.
Since it was relatively easy to learn how to make bread, women who completed baking education for about two months immediately began to earn income by baking and selling bread.
2022 edition
For the 2022 edition, LG will be looking at three different sectors which consist of Education, Water and Sanitation, and Animal Farming.
In the area of education, beneficiaries are to be provided with assistance in ICT, furniture, maintenance of existing and new infrastructure to the tune of GH¢60,000 to the beneficiary communities in northern Ghana.
Similar support will be provided to assist in water and sanitation. Communities that lack water will be assisted with bole holes and other ways to improve the sanitation situations in the benefitted communities.
For animal farming, the GH¢60,000 is to help make sure that there is a year-round production of animal products for the people in the selected communities.
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