Fitzgerald plants trees for the future Spring 1995, Vol. He is Africa Program Coordinator for the non-profit organization based in Silver Spring, Maryland. He plans two trips back to Ghana in 1995. Forests degrade into eroded landscapes.
Farmlands turn into deserts as climate changes.
As a Peace Corps volunteer, Fitzgerald found that Ghana had more than its share of such problems. After serving six months in the Philippines doing community extension work in forestry, the Peace Corps had to pull out because of political unrest. Then, after returning home to Connecticut for several months, he was sent to Ghana. He trained at Cape Coast and subsequently spent two years planning and directing forestry projects around Sankubenase in the Eastern Region. Before I got there, three logging concessions had destroyed lots of farmland, providing no compensation for damages.