
Our Story
Falefale femo, is a community-based passion project by Joseph Milla Odartei Lamptey popularly known as GASMILLA a.k.a the international fisherman a.k.a The king of Azonto, to further his agenda on sanitation and youth development. Gasmilla started a beach clean-up called the Homowo beach clean-up in 2015.
First started in 2015 as the Homowo Beach Cleanup which cleaned five Ga Mashie Communities and fed over five thousand people, Falefale Femo has evolved into an annual festival featuring numerous events that bring communities together to clean and imbue a cleaning culture.
Since the first edition, the beach clean-ups have been coupled with concerts featuring A-list artists as a Thank You to the community for making the cleanups successful.
In 2021 Gasmilla took the cleaning to the communities after research showed about 80% of the rubbish at the beach were generated from the community and washed away by rain to the coast as compared to 20% caused by activities at the coast.
Furthermore, Gasmilla realized that even though the clean-up have been very successful a few months later the areas were dirty again. Gasmilla further realizes to make the cleaning sustained the minds of the people need to be cleaned through continuous education.
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Our coasts and cities are irreplaceable. Let’s save them.
The Problem
Sanitation in Ghana is both a structural and cultural problem. The coastline is the endpoint of all trash from the hinterlands because, in Ghana, our drainage systems lead straight into the ocean. The rains wash away the plastics and all badly-disposed rubbish from communities into the sea.
In addition, indiscriminate littering and over-reliance on microplastics have created a behemoth problem of sanitation, where people have lax (sometimes detrimental) attitudes to keeping their surroundings clean. We realize that if we don’t change the mindset of the people in the community we will clean and clean and clean with no concrete results.


Our Solution
Falefale Femo is tackling the Ghanaian sanitation problem with a “people-first” approach that leverages changing mindsets and attitudes for sustainable impact.
Our annual clean-ups combine a series of events that foster community, provide training and education for the youth to unlearn the existing unsatisfactory sanitation culture and platform relevant stakeholders to tackle the problem. We have a special focus on children this year because we believe they possess the ability to rewrite the wrongs of this generation and revolutionize the sanitation culture in the next few years.
Our Team
We believe if we can change the mindset of the people they will in turn create less trash making our communities cleaner and making less trash flow through our drainage systems.
This will make our dream of having beautiful coastlines in Ghana a reality.