Summer, mostly for university students, means internships or attending summer school. However, thanks to the Ashesi Design Lab mobile summer project, students like Fuseini Abdul-Aziz ’22 and Hussein Baba Fuseini ’22, can turn their passions into practical projects. The pair believe that snail farming can serve as an empowerment tool, which can enable a lot of individuals to be economically stable. This led them to set up Kilaka, a social venture aimed at empowering individuals through snail farming. They believe that snail farming has the potential to benefit the nation both economically and healthwise and thus, want to find a way to match the supply of snails to the growing demand for it.
This summer saw them achieve some milestones in their quest
to improve snail production in Ghana. They made some progress through constructing low cost wooden structures which serve as housing for the snails. They strive to make it as cost-effective as possible so as to ensure that the snail production model they are designing is inclusive and will not exclude individuals from low-income groups. They also engaged in soil treatment activities. This was done because, per their research, there were some organisms in the soil which are fatal to snails. Thus, they treated the soil by applying heat and also mixing in hot ash, all to reduce the mortality rate of the snails. All these activities represent steps towards achieving their goal of scaling up snail production in Ghana and economically empower others to do same.
All the best wishes to Hussein and Abdul-Aziz in their journey.
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