Sector Directory

Organization

Glass Jar Users Association

Mission

Create an enabling environment for the development of small scale food processing businesses for improved incomes and livelihoods.

Organizational Expertise

Gender / Womens Empowerment, Livelihoods, Marketing

Other Organizational Expertise

Food Processing

Technologies & Fuels

Charcoal, Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG)

Clean Cooking Activities

The Glass Jar Users Association has since its inception in 1996 been introducing its members to new technologies to enhance their operations for increased income and improved livelihoods. These have included the promotion of the use of fuel efficient clean stoves such as the LPG, improved saw dust stove and coal pot "Egyaapa" to its over 300 members engaged in the production and marketing of pepper sauces, jams, marmalade, fruit juices, peanut butter and honey locally and internationally. This has been possible due to the emphasis placed on the effects of fuel wood usage on members' health, the environment, as well as the time and energy spent gathering and using it.

Partnership

The Glass Jar Users Association's participation in this partnership will involve promotion and use of clean cookstoves to members. On a larger front, members of the Association who are reputable food processors can be used as “Goodwill Ambassadors†or "Role Models" to promote the clean cook stoves to other food processors in the country.

Regions Operating In

Sub-Saharan Africa

Country Based In

Ghana

Address

P. O. Box CT 2490, Cantonments - Accra, Ghana
Orphan Crescent, North Labone Estates
Accra, Greater Accra

Primary Point of Contact

Name: Mrs. Caroline Tsikata

Title: Organising Secretary

Email: caroltsikata@gmail.com

Phone: 00 233 20 8180613