Meet Nana

There are 7 billion people living in this world,this population increases by 150 every minute. Just imagine how much food all these people will eat in a day. The big question I keep asking is how do we feed this population if we all want to be lawyers,doctors and engineers?

In 2012, I founded an organisation called DIF with the aim of bridging the wide gap between rural and urban education which is currently running successfully. DIF in collaboration with Ghana Library Authority provide rural pupils, some of whom have never seen computers, with practical lessons in reading and computer skills. Due to this project, I travel to so many towns and villages in and outside my country.

One afternoon, I stood and watched food being off loaded in a village. The answer to my “why” brought back childhood memories. Most of my mates and I wanted nothing to do with the plagues of farming because it was low class work, only done by those who were illiterate.

On our way back to Accra at about 11 pm, we witnessed a scene which was reported in the following morning's newspapers. Apparently the young women we saw that night were arrested for transacting illegal business (Prostitution). To my amazement four of them were university graduates. Immediately I realised education alone could not do the trick as I linked it to the answer I got from the village. "the youth don't want to farm so they go to city to make a living”.
Of course! Man must survive but how? So I decided to tackle the “how”.



In my search to acquire knowledge and skills to tackle the how, I came into contact with kanthari, an organisation that provides a springboard for social visionaries to transform concepts and conventions. At a session called concept transformation, I realised I could do more to bring social change in Ghana.

With Gandhi’s quote in mind, I decided to be the change I want to see in the world by firstly, changing myself by volunteering to organisations such as Saigramam and Lend a hand in India. This was not only to gain experience in Agriculture but to understand why young people especially young women graduates shy away from this sector and I got it.

The outcome is my project Guzakuza which seeks to transform the mindsets of young women graduates by equipping them with relevant skills to be able to see farming as an alternative career.

I'm Nana Adjoa A.Sifa from Ghana, a Social Change Maker, Social Entrepreneur and Social Initiator with special skills in leadership, fundraising, event/project planning and management,creating issue based awareness campaign.

I have passion for photography and travelling, I also love to write and cook.

I am a dreamer who dreams of a society where young women graduates are proud to be Agriprenuers. (Agricultural Entrepreneurs) and where smallholder farmers escape poverty.