The mission of Alliance for Empowering Rural Communities (AERC-GH) is to empower to local communities to build resilience....
Empowered communities with enhanced capacities to address community challenges with developed potentials for self-reliance.
We believe in probity and accountability, transparency, mutual respect, honesty, justice, self-development, equity and equality...
Alliance for Empowering Rural Communities (AERC GH), is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organisation committed to empowering local communities to develop innovative solutions for the developmental challenges in Ghana and Africa. Through empowerment programmes, training, research, advocacy and community development in the areas of environment and community based natural resource governance and rural development, local communities are able to build resilience and adapt to the changes in developmental situations in the country.
Facilitating the engagement of local communities with engagement tools to help build broad-based inclusive support for policy improvements.
While AERC agrees there’s an urgency to provide sufficient energy to meet increasing demand, we believe power generation through fossil fuels should be strongly opposed. Continual investment in fossil fuels could be detrimental to the future of Ghana
According to WHO 4.3 million people a year die from illness attributable to household air pollution caused by the inefficient use of solid fuels for cooking. About 23 million people in Ghana presently continue to rely on solid fuels such as wood and charcoal for cooking.
In Ghana, the cooking is done in the kitchens which are either room on the inside of the home or small separate buildings. Most often, the kitchens have little ventilation. Black residue covers the walls,
Office Location: AL 12 Community 7, Tema – Ghana Address: P. O. Box BT46, Tema.Tel: +233241582873/ +233208519642Digital Address: GT-048-1075
