Dambai · Oti Region · Ghana

Regenerating land. Growing opportunity. Building community.

I’m Kwaku Matorwmasen—a regenerative entrepreneur and community builder. I bring people, land, culture, enterprise, and practical innovation together to help rural communities thrive.

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Kwaku smiling with a young community member holding a cocoa pod

People · Land · PossibilityBuilding from relationship

Public identityRegenerative entrepreneur

Working fromDambai, Oti Region

Core practicePeople · Place · Enterprise

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One place for the complete record.

Biography, name variations, social-impact history, media, film, publications and independent references—curated here as the authoritative starting point.

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01 / Why I build

Rural communities are not empty places waiting to be developed.

They are full of knowledge, talent, memory, culture, and possibility. My work is about helping make that possibility visible—and turning it into practical systems that restore landscapes, create livelihoods, educate young people, and strengthen local leadership.

My entrepreneurial journey led me to begin Dream Village in 2007. It has grown into a living platform for learning, experimentation, enterprise, culture, and community partnership.

02 / The journey

An entrepreneurial life shaped by persistence, place, and possibility.

2007

The journey takes root

I began building practical responses through initiatives including Drive Aid Ghana. That same entrepreneurial journey became the foundation of Dream Village.

2009

Technology and service

Through Cletek Services and my administrative work with Redemption Children’s Home, I connected ICT, practical management, education, and community support.

2016

Green Gold

I founded Green Gold Social Enterprise to connect regenerative land use, agroforestry, ecological restoration, and rural livelihoods.

2020

A foundation for the village

Dream Village was officially incorporated as Dream Village Foundation, giving a formal home to work that began in 2007.

2021

ZONGO reaches the screen

My personal story and the work of building a village for dreamers became an internationally screened feature documentary.

Now

Building from Dambai

I continue connecting community knowledge with enterprise, regeneration, learning, culture, tourism, material innovation, and international partnership.

03 / The work

Local action for global questions.

Regenerate

Restoring land and livelihoods through syntropic agroforestry—growing crops and trees together in layers that rebuild soil—alongside climate resilience and community enterprise.

Create

Building social ventures, learning programmes, visitor experiences, digital tools, and material innovations around real community needs.

Connect

Bringing communities, government, businesses, researchers, travellers, and international partners together around shared action.

04 / Leadership

Distinct ventures. A shared commitment to regeneration.

Community platform

Dream Village

Founder & Chief Visionary OfficerFounded 2007 · Incorporated as Dream Village Foundation in 2020

Regenerative enterprise

Green Gold

Founder & Executive DirectorLand restoration, agroforestry, livelihoods, and agricultural enterprise

Material innovation

MIC Ghana

African DirectorExploring how local and waste materials can become useful, low-impact products and building solutions

05 / Foundations

Every chapter taught me how to build the next one.

2007–2016

Drive Aid Ghana

Founder and manager of an initiative focused on basic literacy and nutritional support in underserved communities.

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2009–2016

Cletek Services

Founder and director of an ICT company providing computer solutions and consultancy services.

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2009–2012

Redemption Children’s Home

Administrative leadership supporting the day-to-day work of a children’s home in Damongo.

From 2019

Dream Works Ghana

An earlier enterprise chapter exploring sustainable, eco-conscious construction and real-estate solutions.

Kwaku collaborating with technology specialists around a large drone

Technology has remained part of my practice—from early ICT work to tools for land, materials, and community systems.

06 / Ideas & contribution

I speak from the work—not from theory alone.

My perspective comes from building in places where infrastructure, finance, markets, and institutional support can be limited, but where knowledge, relationships, land, and imagination are abundant.

Regenerative entrepreneurshipSyntropic agroforestryCommunity-led developmentSocial enterpriseYouth and TVET pathwaysWomen’s enterpriseRegenerative tourismMaterial innovationGrassroots digital systemsPartnership building

Speaking & advisory

Available for keynotes, panels, workshops, project dialogue, and advisory conversations with institutions working across Africa and internationally.

Official poster for the documentary ZONGO

07 / My story on film

Award-winning feature documentary · 2021 · 71 minutes

ZONGO

A deeply personal portrait of where I came from, what shaped me, and why I chose to build a village for dreamers with rural communities in Ghana.

Directed and produced by Elias Mierbeth and Michael Herzog, ZONGO follows my journey from poverty and hopelessness towards creating opportunities for young people through education, hope, and community action.

WinnerBest Young Director · Snowdance Independent Film Festival, 2022

WinnerBest of Category · San Antonio Black International Film Festival, 2022

NominatedDikalo Award and Globe Award · 2021

Also selected for festivals in Zanzibar, Accra, Montréal, Richmond, Abuja, and Cardiff.

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Film information: German Documentaries · Official festival record

08 / Public record

Stories, conversations, and independent references.

Selected coverage and publications documenting the ideas, places, and partnerships behind my work.

Ghana News Agency · 2025

Dream Village and Oti agricultural tourism

Coverage of the village’s approach to agricultural education, tourism, and community development.

Business & Financial Times · 2020

Using moringa to address malnutrition

A profile of Green Gold’s early moringa work and its connection to rural livelihoods.

AfricaX · 2021

Changemaker conversation

A long-form conversation about Green Gold, Dream Village, personal resilience, and youth opportunity.

UCI REGENERATIO · 2024

Renacer / Rebirth

My published reflection in UCI’s journal on regenerative development.

Global Ecovillage Network

Dream Village profile

Dream Village’s presence within an international network of community-led ecological initiatives.

German Documentaries · 2021

ZONGO

Official film profile, synopsis, festival history, cast, and production credits.

Kwaku speaking with young people outdoors beside farmland — Learning with young people in the field

Kwaku speaking during an outdoor filmed interview — Sharing the story behind the work

Portrait of Kwaku Matorwmasen — Kwaku Matorwmasen

09 / Journal

Ideas from the land, the work, and the people around it.

Field notes, honest reflections, and practical lessons on regeneration, enterprise, culture, leadership, and building from rural Ghana.

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10 / An invitation

Let’s build what lasts.

I collaborate with communities, institutions, investors, funders, researchers, media, and event organisers who believe regeneration must be practical, locally rooted, and built to endure.

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