New Record: Ghanaian Lady, Yvette Tetteh Swims Across Volta River From Buipe To Ada In 40-days

Ghanaian activist Yvette Tetteh becomes the first person to swim across the Volta River from Buipe to Ada, covering about 450 kilometers in 40 days. 450 Kilometers is roughly like a journey from Accra to Kumasi.

Yvette Tetteh the Dangme activist swam in the lengthy Volta River to bring awareness of the deteriorating water pollution in Ghana.

Yvette is a 30-year-old Ghanaian-British agribusiness entrepreneur.

She is known as an agribusiness entrepreneur and Chief Executive Officer of Yvayva Farms, literary winner of the Koffi Addo Prize for Non-Fiction in the year 2016.

The 350 kilometers swim was part of a project called the Agbetsi Living Water Swim, which is tracking the effect of textile waste throughout the country and taking water, and air samples each day to check for microfibers and microplastics, after the same protocols as The Or Foundation team collecting samples in Accra to raise awareness about Textile Pollution.

Yvette’s initiative has signified a series of groundbreaking firsts: the first time the largest manmade lake in the world has been crossed by swimming, the first time a solar-powered research vessel has been built in Ghana, and the first study of microfiber pollution was undertaken along 450km of Ghana’s internal coastline.