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SOLVE: Solar-Powered Vegetable Gardens for Asylum Seekers

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SOLVE: Solar-Powered Vegetable Gardens for Asylum Seekers

The Solar for Organic Local Vegetables for Enhancing Asylum Seekers’ Food and Income Security (SOLVE) project set out to improve the food, nutrition and income of asylum seekers by helping them grow vegetables all year round, with water from a solar-powered borehole.

It worked with 200 asylum seekers living at the Tarikom Reception and Settlement Centre in the Bawku West District.

Funder: U.S. Embassy in Ghana
Implementation period: October 2024 – September 2025

Photos

An asylum seeker watering her vegetables in the Tarikom solar garden

An asylum seeker watering her vegetables in the Tarikom solar garden

A beneficiary with money from her vegetable sales at the Tarikom garden

A beneficiary with money from her vegetable sales at the Tarikom garden

A beneficiary harvesting vegetables from her plot in the Tarikom solar garden

A beneficiary harvesting vegetables from her plot in the Tarikom solar garden

A beneficiary watering her plot in the Tarikom solar garden

A beneficiary watering her plot in the Tarikom solar garden

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