Claus Wirsig

More than 30,000 people in four impoverished villages in Ghana are today better fed, happier and healthier because volunteer foreign aid worker Claus Wirsig of Toronto has a summer cottage next door to John Dippell of Kitchener, Ontario.
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Claus is a former president of the Hospital for Sick Children Foundation in Toronto.He's also a Volunteer Adviser for the CESO (Canadian Executive Service Organization), a not-for-profit enterprise that consists of 4,000 or so retired or semi retired professionals and business executives who'd rather share their talents with the world than sit around watching the grass grow.Through CESO they act as advisers to businesses, human development organizations and government agencies around the world and among First Nations across Canada.

Four years ago Claus set out to help set-up a produce marketing business for the subsistence farmers of four villages north of the city of Kumasi in central Ghana.
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CESO sent Claus Wirsig who, by returning every year, has helped establish the commercially oriented St Luke Farming Society that quickly improved both quantity and quality of local crops so there was a surplus to sell.
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The weekend over, Claus returned to Toronto - and John Dippell went home to Kitchener to sell his local Rotary Club on the idea of funding far away farmers.
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Because of it Claus and Dr Boateng were able to raise another $10,000 from the Luke Society of the U.S., which runs Dr Boateng's clinic, and from the Ecumenical Council of Ghana.
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And Claus went back to Ghana to help create an infrastructure for the farmers credit union.

Now he says that with a little bit of help similar business-oriented structures could be established throughout Ghana."The potential is there to help the people of an area one hundred times the size of the area I was in," he says.