Video Tag: West Africa

Training More than 500 Young People with Marketable Skills

Ms. Kini was interested in gardening and wanted to learn how to improve her knowledge for several years. The partnership between Job Booster and ECHO allowed her to be trained in market gardening techniques, fertilizer production, and vegetable processing. Her whole family accompanies her in this project to make gardening an economically flourishing activity.

More than 500 young people in Burkina Faso have benefited from this training in market gardening. As a result, many people have started nurseries and plan to make a living from this activity.

ECHO Multiplication Effect Video – Jean Apedoh (SRI)

Jean Apedoh is an agricultural trainer in Togo, West Africa. Through training and connections made at the first ECHO conference in West Africa, he has been instrumental is multiplying the impact of SRI (the System of Rice Intensification) across the region. Meet Jean and three generations of trainers and farmers who have benefited from ECHO’s West Africa Impact Center.