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.
About Us
Caritas Ghana is motivated by qualitative and social aspects, such as • Environmentally friendly handling of e-waste (excluding soil, air and water contamination) to protect the environment, the creation. • Our “No Harm” safeguarding policy: Safe handling of e- waste to avoid health hazards for employees and the neighborhood. • Legal and formal approaches. • Caritas Ghana as a non-profit organisation, adopts social impact approaches. We train unemployed young people in the professional handling of e-waste, thus opening up future employment prospects for them. • Empowerment with alternative skills for decent work according to SDG 8. • Awareness of the public and advocacy.
SELF-DESTRUCTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RUINING METHODS. LETS STOP WITH 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.
