
Teni Agana
Loozeele Initiative
A new social venture created to mitigate the problems of unemployment and reduce rural-urban migration in the northern part of Ghana by helping youths create a source of income to support themselves while they live and stay in the north.
B-Corp Impact Areas
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- Environment
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- Using environmentally friendly product
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- Impact Business Model
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- Reducing rural-urban migration
- Targeting a vulnerable group in the community (female head potters)
- Undertaking training to empower women and girls
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- Community
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- Working with local facilitators, trainers and partners to achieve Loozeele mandate.
- Setting up a factory to train girls in an underserved community.
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SDG Outcomes
SDG 1
SDG 8
Hybrid Activities
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- Train young girls and women specially kayayei (female head potters) through partnerships with other organizations to empower them to create a livelihood for themselves and plan for a better life.
- Sell products made by the girls and 20% of the sale of every products goes towards sustaining and supporting more girls.
Simulations
Validated the process of partnering with an International Development Agency as a key partner to achieve Loozeele mandate on a large scale.