How Mayekoo Is Starting the Year: Beach Restoration, Girls’ Health, and Literacy in Action

Restoring Accra’s Polluted Beaches

Accra’s beaches are not just public spaces. They are places where families gather, fishermen work, vendors earn a living, and communities connect to the shoreline. But too often, these beaches are overwhelmed by plastic waste, discarded textiles, and debris washed in through drains and outfalls.

For the last three years, Mayekoo has worked alongside volunteers to help remove and divert an average of 670 tons of waste per year from coastal areas, while engaging roughly 700 volunteers annually.

To respond at the scale the problem demands, Mayekoo has already invested more than $100,000 in a 4WD tractor and a Barber HD-600 mechanized beach rake. This allows cleanup efforts to go beyond one-off volunteer days and move toward a more sustained, reliable system.

Support for this work helps sustain:

• Mechanized and volunteer-led cleanups

• Trash haul-off and beach operations

• Equipment maintenance and field readiness

• Expanded cleanup support where debris loads are highest

Helping Girls Stay in School With Dignity

A girl should not have to choose between going to school and managing her period. Yet for too many girls, lack of menstrual supplies, privacy, and education still turns a normal part of life into a barrier to learning.

Through Mayekoo’s Matching Donations Campaign, an initial goal of GH₵26,779 grew to GH₵51,769, more than doubling the campaign’s impact.

So far, that support has helped Mayekoo and its partners provide menstrual health education and reusable sanitary pads to more than 6,000 girls across Ghana. The next goal is to reach 10,000 girls and beyond.

One especially meaningful outreach took place on the International Day of the Girl Child, at the Cape Coast School for the Deaf and Blind. During that visit, Mayekoo distributed 100 reusable sanitary pads and led a menstrual health education session designed to build confidence, dignity, and understanding.

Support for this work helps provide:

• Reusable menstrual kits

• Menstrual health education

• Support for period-friendly school environments

• Locally led distribution and follow-through

Building a Culture of Reading at Tenashie

A child being in school is not always the same as a child learning to read confidently.

That is why Mayekoo is investing in literacy where it breaks down first: in underserved schools and communities that need books, reading habits, volunteer support, and visible encouragement around learning.

On February 21, 2026, Mayekoo’s team, volunteers, and community partners gathered at Tenashie A/B Primary School in Accra to put books directly into children’s hands and read with them.

Through the Library-in-a-Box approach:

• 600 storybooks were received and donated

• 50 pupils participated in the reading engagement

• Community partners helped make reading feel exciting, visible, and real

This literacy work is designed to grow through reading clubs, mini-libraries, volunteer reading activations, and teacher support.

Why This Work Matters

These efforts may look different on the surface, but they are connected by the same belief: communities deserve practical solutions that last.

A cleaner beach protects livelihoods, health, and dignity. A menstrual kit helps a girl stay confident and present in school. A book in a child’s hand can become the beginning of a lifelong habit of learning.

That is the kind of impact Mayekoo is committed to building this year.