The Programme Coordinator of Jaksally Development Organization Mr. Seidu Jeremiah has touted the impacts and contributions of Village Savings and Loans (VSLAs) on the lives of many people in Bole district especially women groups and therefore urged the leadership of Bole district assembly, financial institutions within the area to support the course. He said the
Jaksally Development Organization has extended its social development interventions into some five Metropolitan Municipal and Districts Assemblies in the Upper East, Northern and Savannah Region respectively. This is to partner the assemblies in these regions in order to contribute to alleviating poverty among its people especially women, youth, children and other vulnerable groups in the
The Program Coordinator of Jaksally Development Organization in the Savannah Region Mr. Seidu Jeremiah has alleged that the recent illegal logging of rosewood and other tree species in the Savanna Ecological Zone was perpetrated by some government officials at the local levels. He alleged that some Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies, assembly members, which fall
The host of Ridge FM 104.9 radio program dubbed Love on Ridge at the Tamale Technical University Mr Godwin A. Apullah (aka DJ Ambassador) was on Saturday 30th of November 2019, adjudged the winner of Gender and Family Program of the year at the second edition of the Hyperlink Media Awards 2019 held in Sunyani.
Jaksally Development Organization has called for an upward review on court fines against illegal activities that are going on in the country’s forest reserves to deter criminals. The organization said the court's fines against people who are illegally logging rosewood, timber, commercial charcoal burning, farming, cattle ranching, in the various national forest reserves especially in
22 people have been arrested in Tumu in the Sissala West and East Districts of the Upper West Region by joint security personnel for various offences in the forest reserves. Their arrest is in connection with unlawful entry, illegal farming, cattle ranching, illegal logging, and many other illegal activities going on the forest reserves along
Some major source of drinking water in the Wa East District of the Upper West Region has been dried up as residents blamed the situation over the depletion of the forest by illegal rosewood loggers. Rivers and streams that are the major source of drinking water for all year round for these residents especially kundugu,
There are calls on government by residents of Bawiesebe and Civil Society Organizations to immediately deploy security personnel to the Wa East District of the Upper West Region which is the exit point and hotspot zone for rosewood activities to monitor the illegal movement of rosewoods in that parts of the district during dusk to
The Programme Coordinator of Jaksally Development Organization an NGO based in the Savannah Region and a Rosewood Campaigner, Mr. Seidu Jeremiah has observed that, the value of rosewood in Ghana and Savannah Ecological Zone is being thrown away to China by contributing to China’s economic growth through harvesting and exportation of logs/Billets (unprocessed rosewood). He
