Who are we?
The Eco Warriors Movement
is a youth led grassroot environmental movement working to ensure a balance between the three main aspects of sustainable development: Environment, Society and Economy. We believe that economic and infrastructural development should not be prioritized over environmental sustainability. Through our Eco-Educations programs and Eco Clubs in schools, we educate students and communities to spark in them environmental consciousness. We at Eco Warriors believe that a youth led action is a sustainable approach in dealing with environmental problems. One of our main focus is to develop measures that will help humanity to adapt and mitigate climate change.
Climate change has wide-ranging effects on the environment, and on socio-economic and related sectors, including water resources, agriculture and food security, human health, terrestrial and marine ecosystems, biodiversity and coastal zones. This makes climate change interests us most. Tree planting is a key intervention for managing global carbon to mitigate climate change. Our flagship project – Climate Smart Tree Planting (https://youtu.be/x9NVa8p1aD) is also adding up to the numerous global tree planting projects but this time to achieve an additional purpose of simultaneously addressing the triple planetary crises – Biodiversity loss, Pollution and Climate change.
We want to mitigate climate change, we want to conserve the forest, we want restore the aesthetics of the environment and we want to do all these in line with our culture and customs.
Meet the team
Co-founder and President
Otuo-Akyampong Boakye
Otuo-Akyampong is an Environmental Scientist, Awarding Winning Climate Change Advocate, Open Knowledge Enthusiast, Wikipedian, Teacher, and Youth Activist. He is a Community Solutions Program (CSP) fellow, a Climate Reality Leader, and a fellow of the African Network of Green Ambassadors (ANGA). He is a Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI) Associate, Youth In Landscape bootcamper, Falling Walls Lab – Science Engage winner, and a finalist for the We Are Together International Prize.
Mr. Boakye is a social ecopreneur whose enterprise primarily focuses on People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace, and Partnership. He works with rural farmers in communities to empower them and introduce them to Climate Smart Agric.
With over 10 years of experience in the green space, Otuo-Akyampong has co-founded other active organizations in the climate change ecosystem. The latest amongst them is the Wiki Green Initiative, which leverages open knowledge to ensure inclusion in environmental and climate information access.
Otuo-Akyampong is a public speaker having spoken on many international platforms on sustainability. He has presented on the prestigious Berlin Science Week Falling Walls platform. Locally, he has won many awards including Best SDG 13 advocate in Ghana.
As a youth advocate, he is the organizing secretary of the National Network of Youth Group – Ghana contributing greatly to the welfare of young people in Ghana.
For Mr. Otuo-Akyampong Boakye, the time for young people to arise and act is either now or always
Co-founder
Maxwell
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Maxwell Beganim is an Educator, Tech enthusiast, social Entrepreneur, and Climate Change advocate. Maxwell has worked as a Youth Worker with over 10 years of experience in training and Education, Entrepreneurship, and Community development. Maxwell is a certified African Civic Engagement leader with the University of Georgia with the US Department of State.
Maxwell is a Denis Goldberg Scholar currently studying Msc. Renewable Energy Development at Heriot-Watt University.
Maxwell is currently serving as a member of the steering Committee for Climate Change and Energy for Ghana Youth Voice, World Bank Youth to Youth Community.
Maxwell is a member of the Capacity Building Steering Committee for SDG 7 Youth Constituency, Serves as the Chairperson for Global Peace Africa, Chairperson for Climate and Emerging Technology with Internet Society Ghana Chapter, and is a Climate Reality Leader. A member of the Climate Working Group of the Pan African Youth Union.
Maxwell also serves in the capacity as the project lead for Young Green Entrepreneurs and initiative of SYND, Project lead for the Pan African Green Leaders Academy, Co-founder of The Ghanaian Pidgin Wikimedia Community, Founder of the Kumasi Wiki Hub, Co-founder of the Wiki Green Initiative that organised the Wiki Green Conferences.
Maxwell is the Technical Climate Advisor to the Pan African Youth Union Secretary General.
Co-founder - Finance
Josephine Kyeiwaa Owusu
Josephine is a banker, green advocate, and gender-sensitive activist. She has over 7 years of experience in the banking sector of Ghana.
Josephine’s experience spans from banking operations to general financial management for projects and programs. She works towards a perfect blend between project financial sustainability and environmental sustainability.
As a banker, Josephine is interested in exploring opportunities in climate finance for local and indigenous communities. She leads the Eco Care project.
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