Care for Our Common Home
Inspiration
Following the call of Pope Francis in his book Laudato Si and by the commissioning of the Ghana Catholic Bishops' Conference, Caritas Ghana launched the e-waste campaign "Care for our common home" in 2017.
The aim of the campaign is to strengthen environmental awareness among the population, to collect, dismantle and recycle e-waste in an orderly manner and to train unemployed young people in the professional handling of e- waste, thus opening up future employment prospects for them.
Let's Stop That!!!
Containers full of electrical appliances arrive at Tema, every day. They are filled with laptops, mobile phones, refrigerators and televisions.
Arrived in Accra and other towns the devices get tested and if possible repaired. That enables further use of the electrical appliances. But there is also a huge amount of e-waste that ends up in one of the many scrap yards. There, e-waste is dismantled and recycled using methods that not only ruin the environment, but also seriously affect the health of workers and local residents.
What we Accept
Laptops, Notebooks, Computers, TVs, Screens & Monitors, Mobile & fixed phones, UPS, Printers, Printing and copying equipment, GPS, Calculators, Radios, Video cameras & recorders, HiFi, Musical instruments, Routers, Refrigerators, Freezers, Air conditioning, Heat pumps, Radiators, Washing machines, Clothes dryers, Dish washers, Cookers, Stoves, Carbattries, Microwaves, Ventilators, Irons, Toasters, Clocks, Watches, Photovoltaic panels, Shavers, Scales, Appliances for hair & body care, Vacuum cleaners, Toys, Sports equipment, Smoke detectors, Heating regulators, Thermostats, Lamps and more!
It just need to have an electric power supply from the plug or battery source
Our Partners
