The Blue Skies Foundation has launched a new toolkit to help businesses and organisations start their own School Farm of the Year Competition. The Toolkit will be unveiled during the 5th annual awards of the Blue Skies School Farm Competition in Ghana where the 2020 School Farm winners will be […]
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Toolkit to help agribusinesses run their own School Farm Competition
The Blue Skies Foundation has launched a new Toolkit for agribusinesses to start their own School Farm of the Year Competition. Following the success of the initiative launched by Blue Skies in Ghana in 2015, the Toolkit provides detailed guidance for other organisations to replicate the model which is designed […]
Revisiting Fotobi Junior High School
After celebrating ten years of the Foundation in 2019, we thought we would revisit some of the first projects we supported, to see how they were doing. Fotobi School applied to the Foundation in 2009. At the time, students at the Junior High School were forced to study in unsafe, […]
School Farm Awards inspire the next generation
Blue Skies is encouraging the next generation of agricultural entrepreneurs after crowning the winners of its 2019 School Farm of the Year Competition in Ghana. The School Farm Competition of the Year Competition was launched by the Blue Skies Foundation in 2015 as a way of encouraging more young people […]
Twelve new Foundation Projects Approved for 2020
The Blue Skies Foundation has approved twelve new projects for 2020, including its first project in Brazil. The projects were approved at a Board Meeting in Ghana attended by representatives of Blue Skies, Waitrose and Albert Heijn. Our 2020 projects include: A maternity clinic for a community near to our […]
Foundation Celebrates 100 Projects in 10 Years
This year, the Blue Skies Foundation is celebrating its 10th Anniversary Since the Foundation was founded in 2009, it has implemented over 100 projects which have benefited over 100,000 people in Ghana, Egypt, South Africa and Senegal. These include over 42 educational projects such as the construction of classroom blocks for […]
New machine will improve diagnosis for clinic in Egypt
A project to provide a medical analyser for a clinic in Egypt has been successfully implemented. Trials of the lab machine purchased for the Al Rashad charity clinic (pictured) have been carried out on the first sixty people. The machine can test samples from 60 individuals for 40 different conditions […]
Construction starts on new Classroom Block
A sod cutting ceremony was recently held in Ghana to officially mark the start of a new three classroom block for a Primary School at the village of Nsumia, which is located just a few miles from the Blue Skies factory. Work is already progressing and construction is expected to […]
Foundation aims for 100th project in its 10th year
The Blue Skies Foundation Board met in Ghana this month to approve thirteen more projects to go ahead in 2019. This will bring the total number of projects initiated by the Foundation since it was started in 2009 to exactly 100, in what will be its 10th year. The projects […]
2018 School Farm of the Year winners revealed
Blue Skies have awarded winners of the 2018 School Farm of the Year during a ceremony at the GNAT Hall in Koforidua, Ghana on the 30th of November. Over 600 students attended the ceremony representing sixty schools who participated in this year’s School Farm of the Year Competition, which was […]
