Click on each dropdown below to access a recipe and learn about a WAC team from that country!
Ghana
Click here for a “Waakye” recipe: https://www.dashofjazz.com/waakye/
A team studying in Tamale, Ghana, targeted local sanitation issues by formulating an educational program that describes the health risks of various sanitation issues in the community, thereby addressing a root cause of cases of food poisoning and cholera caused by water contamination due to improper waste disposal practices. The team aims to collaborate with existing agencies and activities in the area to amplify their project’s impacts.
Iraq
Click here for a “Masgouf” recipe: https://hildaskitchenblog.com/recipe/masgouf-iraqi-fish/
Noticing an issue with textbook shortages in public schools across their community, Team Baghdad from Iraq aimed to begin a private-to-public school textbook donation system, with students from private institutions passing on their textbooks to the incoming grade level of public school students at the end of the school year, thereby saving the books form going unused, and supplying fellow students with the still up-to-date resources they need to succeed in their studies.
Kenya
Click here for an “Ugali” recipe: https://tasteoftheplace.com/ugali-kenyan-cornmeal
This team in Nairobi, Kenya proposed the Smart Irrigation Farm System (SIFS) to maximize food production, lower food costs, and implement efficient irrigation practices in their school garden space. Focusing on the SDG goal Zero Hunger, these students noticed the costs associated with their school meal program, and decided to create a plan to craft a plan based around the available resource of the large tract of land their school is built upon. These students designed a plan to grow food for their school hyper locally, with the goal of providing two meals a day for students, facilitated by their SIFS!
Morocco
Click here for a “Couscous” recipe: https://salimaskitchen.com/moroccan-couscous/
This Moroccan team, based in Boulemane, created a plan for an enhanced fog catching system to increase access to clean water in highly arid regions of the country. Wanting to build a solution to their personal challenges with water scarcity, the participants developed an 8 step plan to produce, site, and scale up units of fog catching devices.
Nigeria
Read below for an “Eba and Efo Riro (Yoruba)” recipe submitted by the leader of the George Green Baptist College WAC team, Florence Abosede.
Ingredients: Gari, spinach, palm oil, locust bean, onions, pepper, seasoning, fish, assorted meat.
Directions: Boil a litre of water and pour two cups of garri, stir till paste, eba is done.Put a empty pot on fire, pour palm oil and add locust bean, pour your chopped onions and peppers, add your already boiled and chopped fish and assorted meat, stir till mixed, bring out your sliced spinach, stir till mixed then add salt and seasoning to your taste.
The team from the George Green Baptist College in Ogbomoso, Nigeria, crafted a low cost waste disposal system plan for their community, schools, and marketplaces, responding to challenges in sourcing the necessary materials and differentiating between different kinds of waste during testing with ingenuity and persistence.
Sierra Leone
Click here for a “Cassava Leaf Stew Link” recipe: https://www.africanbites.com/cassava-leaf-soup/
This team in Freetown, Sierra Leone proposed a system of transforming the plastic waste in their country into affordable bricks and pavers! Plastic is washed, dried, melted, mixed with sawdust, and condensed in an oxidation chamber, after which it is ready for use in the construction of walkways. The bricks are capable of being formed into multiple varying shapes and sizes as needed for individual projects!
Türkiye
Click here for an “Etli kuru fasulye” recipe: Link:https://vidarbergum.com/recipe/turkish-white-bean-stew-with-meat/
This team in Istanbul, Türkiye plans to deliver an interactive online educational tool to address language and cultural barriers for the estimated 1.6 million Syrian refugees under the age of 18 who currently reside in Turkey. Noting the difficulty that Syrian students were facing in the school system, this team is developing LibLang, their scratch–made virtual tool offering both synchronous and asynchronous lessons designed to aid Syrian students not only in their studies, but also going about their daily lives in Türkiye.
United States
Click here for an “Eastern North Carolina-style barbecue sauce” recipe: https://www.seriouseats.com/north-carolina-barbecue-vinegar-sauce
This team at Harrison High School noticed a lack of access to hygiene maintenance resources in their school. Their program involved creating boxes of single use packets of laundry detergent, shampoo, menstrual hygiene products, wet wipes and various other supplies needed by their student body, distributed in locations across their high school. The team has plans to expand the project to local middle schools.
Zimbabwe
Click here for a “Sadza” recipe: https://phumzamarumo.co.za/cooksadza/
Team Not Too Young, from Harare, Zimbabwe, proposed a project focused on access to clean water and sanitation. Recognizing both the causes and impacts of waterborne diseases, their two part proposal includes a bilingual educational booklet focused on preventing instances of cholera caused by lack of information, as well as providing designs for their DIY water filtering buckets for individuals tasked with collecting water in rural communities, for which they are considering various business to reach out to regarding manufacturing.