Climate Champions School Clubs · Ghana
AgNova is helping schools turn climate learning into practical action through tree stewardship, water conservation, waste management, and student leadership.
Child-safe, inclusive and community-centered — every activity is supervised and consent-based.
The pilot at a glance
The Climate Champions School Clubs Initiative starts with a deliberately sized pilot so the model can be tested, evidenced and then replicated district by district.
50
Schools
Basic schools across 5 pilot districts in Ghana
24
Months
Pilot design, roll-out, monitoring and learning
9–15
Ages
Upper primary and junior high school pupils
Scalable
Model
Built from day one to replicate district by district
What clubs do
Each club works across a small set of pillars that connect what children learn to what they can change in their school, their home and their community.
Weather, climate and the SDGs explained through stories, songs, picture cards and examples children can see in their own community.
Clubs plant indigenous and fruit trees, then water, mulch, protect and check on them — success is measured by survival, not seedlings handed out.
Handwashing, safe water, drainage and water-saving habits that keep pupils healthy and schools resilient during floods and dry spells.
Sorting, reusing, composting and school clean-up days that turn everyday waste into a practical lesson in circular thinking.
Hands-on plots where pupils learn about soil, seasons, food and biodiversity — and see climate ideas grow in front of them.
Every club tree is geo-tagged and photographed, so schools, districts and partners can follow survival and care over time.
Why it matters
For children in Ghana, climate change is not a distant subject. It arrives as floods, heat, irregular rainfall, thinning tree cover and harder farming seasons. Yet climate learning in basic schools often stops at the page.
CCSCI adds the missing layer: pupils aged 9–15 who plant and nurture trees, sort waste, save water, grow gardens and speak up at home and at school. Habits formed at this age last, and children carry them into households that a poster never reaches.
The goal is a generation of climate-literate, environmentally responsible and action-oriented young leaders — starting in their own school compound.
We measure success by trees that survive and habits that stick — not by the number of seedlings handed out on launch day.
Global goals, local action
CCSCI gives partners a clear, measurable pathway to contribute to four Sustainable Development Goals through the everyday life of a school.
Practical, age-appropriate climate and sustainability learning inside the school day.
Children learn the causes and local impacts of climate change and act on them.
Tree planting, tree survival, soil care and school biodiversity stewardship.
Schools, districts, communities, donors and CSR partners working as one delivery team.
News & stories
Short updates on what clubs are learning, planting and leading.
Planting day is the easy part. A Climate Champions club shows what happens in the eleven months that follow — watering rotas, mulch, tree guards and a register with every seedling's name on it.
Soil, seasons, compost and rainfall stop being abstract the moment a class has beds of its own to look after. A look at how the school garden carries half the climate curriculum.
A club president, a secretary with a logbook and an inclusion lead who makes sure nobody is left out — inside the student executive that keeps a Climate Champions club moving.
Partner with AgNova
AgNova is seeking donors, foundations, CSR partners, schools, community organisations and diaspora supporters who want to see climate learning turn into visible action on the ground.
AgNova is committed to child-safe, inclusive, and community-centered environmental action.