Our founding story is one that’s steeped in the incredible power of community efforts. Our distinctiveness lies in the fact, from day 1, we have been fully powered by the communities we work with.
Long before our founder, Shadrack Frimpong, won the University of Pennsylvania’s President Engagement Prize in 2015
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His community leaders met with me in 2014 to brainstorm interventions, designate land, and write a letter of support stating that they’d release over 50acres of land if he won the award.
And when he did, they paid 80,000GHcedis (~$20,000USD then from their coffers) as crop compensation for the farmers who worked on it prior.
Here is a brief clip of the chiefs and the late Queen-mother offering libations to pave way for construction in 2016.