Workshops for the community.

Lumen Mundi also wants to offer workshops for the people of the community. The emphasis here is on the environment. Not much is being done about that yet. Waste is dropped where one stands and when the riverbeds dry up after the rainy season, they are full of plastic bags, water bags and other rubbish.

Lumen Mundi works as environmentally friendly as possible. We want to show people that waste can also be reused. For example, by making pencil cases from empty water bags (photo), or making a bag out of it, such as the one that board member Kojo Mahama wears around his waist in the photo. Kojo: “When it starts to rain, everyone who works in the fields with me will come and ask if they can put their phone in my bag!”

Work is underway on the design of a raincoat for children (in the photo Richard Asumbisa's son shows the first prototype) and a life jacket. Paul, a self-made 28-year-old student with a physical disability, showed us that a boy in the south thought his school environment was so dirty. This boy made large waste bins from water bags (photo). That is certainly an idea for us too!