SOAP MAKING

Every Friday morning, I ride my motor 30min on and off road, it is actually a disaster especially after it rained! I have to cross big ponds and became muddy...

It is to go to one community, AFRASU, isolated forest fringe community, near AHYIEM which located 10min from CHIRAA. They are settlers from the north, such as Upper West & Upper East region, the hotter and poorer area in Ghana.

For one who involves in development assistance, TO BE SUSTAINABLE is eternal theme. It is never easy way you know. For WHO, Grassroots or accessble people or Gorvenment? And HOW, money or material or teschnology?? Question never end and we have to say to ourselves always.

AFRASU people continue SOAP MAKING which was introduced by the project for forest maangement. One brilliant thing is that they have IMPROVED the economical way  by themselved and kept producing since the project had ended, though these kinds of activities which were introduced by outsider rarelly survived.

Their achievement are two;
Use PALM OIL instead of Coconut oil which was introduced by the project
& they manufacture the handmade PALM OIL.

Palm oil is the most reasonable and familliar oil in Ghana. Ghanaian always use to prepare for food.
You can find Palm trees in every forest if you are in souther than here Brong Ahafo region. Nawadays the production in South East Asia is increasing to export to EU, China and India for industrial soap production and food consumprion, but the orgin place of PALM tree is here West Africa.