Many schools in Ghana do not have libraries and millions of children do not have books and other education supplies. Ghana is one of the African countries with the highest illiteracy rates in the world.
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READI’s Clean Water and Sanitation programs aim to make measurable and sustainable improvements in water supply, sanitation, hygiene, and the overall environment in the communities we serve.
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READI's food security programs breathe life into weak and besieged communities. The organization offers solutions-such as teaching skills to increase food production, marketing techniques, land rehabilitation.
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The role of organic farming is very vital as it impacts environmental sustainability, health, food safety, social welfare and other areas of human life to sustain global development. These among other benefits of organic farming especially in cocoa production in Ghana have been identified through the rigorous and effective research activities of READI.
The practice of raising different yet dependent enterprises and when different enterprises are dependent which are, complementary and supplementary to each other. Such a farming system for their production is composed of production components that they interact among themselves and affect the others. such a mixed farming system is termed as Integrated Mixed Farming System.
READI works on PURDUE IMPROVED CROP STORAGE (PICS) PROJECT facilitated by The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA). The Purdue Improved Crops Storage Project (PICS3) is a project aimed at demonstrating to farmers how they can safely store their crops without any chemical, using locally produced polythene bags. The PICS3 project adds value to crop production and empowers farmers to store and sell their crops when the price are high, thereby making more money and eliminating the risk to human health. The project would like to conduct demonstrations in 1000 villages in 4 regions of Ghana in 2015 harvest season.
Fish is an important source of food and income to many people in the developing world. Various traditional methods are employed to preserve and process fish for consumption and storage. These include smoking, drying, salting, frying and fermenting and various combinations of these. In Ghana, smoking is the most widely practiced method: practically all species of fish available in the country can be smoked. Fish smoking prolongs shelf life, enhances flavor and increases utilization in soups and sauces. It reduces waste at times of bumper catches and permits storage for the lean season.