Eve's Foundation, Accra, Ghana, West Africa

Named after the first mother of creation, Eve's Foundation is a Ghanaian nongovernmental organization committed to the provision of effective information, education and counselling on matters relating to reproductive health.

Special emphasis is given to childbirth education with the goal of reducing the high rate of maternal and infant morbidity and mortality in Ghana.

Interlove International, Accra, Ghana, West Africa

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ClickMAX is a phased project designed to cover the Accra and Tema Metropolitan areas and more importantly to replace your dialup service with an ALWAYS-ON service and to save costs on monthly recurrent costs.

West Africa Network For Peacebuilding Wanep, Accra, Ghana, West Africa

A West Africa region characterized by just and peaceful communities where the dignity of the human person is paramount and where the people can meet their basic human needs and decide their own direction.

WANEP's mission is to enable and facilitate the development of mechanisms for cooperation among civil society based peacebuilding practitioners and organizations in West Africa by promoting cooperative responses to violent conflicts; providing the structure through which these practitioners and institutions will regularly exchange experience and information on issues of peacebuilding, conflict transformation, social, religious and political reconciliation; and promoting West Africa’s social cultural values as resources for peacebuilding.

Divog - Disaster Volunteers Of Ghana, Ho, West Africa

Disaster Volunteers of Ghana (DIVOG) is a volunteer based, non profit, non-partisan, non-governmental organisation (NGO) registered in Ghana and working to assist in the improvement of the lot of the vulnerable and deprived in society through volunteer programs and projects in education, health and community initiated programs and other integrated rural development projects that worked in developing countries.

DIVOG Volunteer Programs head office is based in Ho Municipality which is the Volta Region of Ghana. DIVOG has worked with some individual volunteers of the American Peace Corps Ghana, Stacy Kreger in Awudome Senior High School, and Peter Sodden in Amedzofe Community in their communities. Some staff of DIVOG also worked with DC Care International, Evangel Community Mission, Ghana, Save Windows and Orphanage Development Center and International Medical Student Volunteers from the Section for Tropical Medicine, Slovenia.

Easy Scholarships Foundation, Accra, Ghana, West Africa

Easy Scholarships Foundation (ESFON) is absolutely a non profitable, non governmental, non religious, rather a pure humanitarian organization.

ESFON is located on the Liberian Refugee Camp, Buduburam with in the Central region of Ghana. The camp is 45 kilometers from Accra, the Capital city of Ghana.

It had been a very long time dream for us to have a organize NGO which will functions in filling in the gaps for needy people especially the kids who happens to be the future leaders. The urgent need of education which have been highlighted in the minds of all Liberian Refugees in Ghana. But the million dollars question is “How can one get Educated?

It is in this light that we Brownell S. D. Paelay Sr. and Pablo Fernández (Founders) are dutifully responding to the call of a great commission to be able to give Scholarships for Liberian Refugees in Buduburam, Ghana.

ESFON is gear toward giving Refugees (children) Education which many of them have been deny due to the civil war in Liberia and the high rate of living on Camp Buduburam.

ESFON is created to give Refugees Children, Women and others Venerable individuals their basic needs, sound education, Vocational skills training, good Sanitation and Medication. Which many of Liberians have been deny due to the low standard of living on Buduburam Refugee Camp.

Our mission is to identify the less fortunate, unaccompanied kids and other venerable individuals and give them basic education and vocational Skill training. We shall also conduct regular workshops to train and educate refugees about HIV/AIDS and other STDs, Sanitation and Health, Peace Building and Conflict resolution and shall organize sporting activities.

Habitat For Humanity Ghana, Accra, West Africa

Habitat for Humanity works in partnership with God and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with people in need by building and renovating houses, so that there are decent houses in decent communities in which every person can experience God's love and can live and grow into all that God intends.

our goal is to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the face of the earth by constructing and building adequate and basic housing.

Furthermore, all of our words and actions are for the ultimate purpose of putting shelter on the hearts and minds of people in such a powerful way that poverty housing and homelessness become socially, politically, and religiously unacceptable in our nation and world.

Chapter 58 Trust, Accra, Ghana, West Africa

Our approach and activities are based on the Microfinance Plus model, which focuses on providing solutions to key problems that the poor face which prevent them from saving and growing their businesses. Chapter 58 strongly believes that access to credit and saving services is only a small part of raising the economically active poor out of poverty and that the most effective, long-term solution is permanent access to credit within the framework of comprehensive, continuing support services. Much more importantly, we believe that focused education and innovative business strategies based on the needs of the economically active poor are critical to improving our clients' standards of living.

To this end, the five Community Based Credit Associations we operate in Accra, Somanya, and Kpong provide 160 small scale urban and rural entrepreneurs with access to commercial savings services, affordable credit, practical and life skills training as well as health screening services all aimed at increasing the productivity and efficiency of their micro enterprises.

In the Upper West Region of Ghana we assist 12 additional rural Community Based Women's Organizations, including more than 420 women, through the provision of appropriate linkages to training programs and technical advice to develop their capacities to produce, market, and export shea products.

The weekly meetings of our Credit Associations provide valuable business training and education, as well as a useful forum for clients to network, exchange ideas, and learn from their fellow micro entrepreneurs. In addition to credit and savings services, we at Chapter 58 strive to provide comprehensive micro enterprise education and services.

We educate our clients about appropriate and affordable technologies and business practices that can improve micro business efficiency and earn higher returns on investments for our clients.

The average client of our microfinance program is able to benefit from a loan as small as 50GH¢ (50US$). At Chapter 58 we encourage our clients to use loans to build their businesses' asset bases, increasing their ability to weather future hardships and increasing the value of their businesses.

Destiny Volunteers, Koforidua, Ghana, West Africa

Destiny Volunteers is a non-governmental organization (NGO) and a charity based in Ghana, Africa that seeks to volunteer in the following areas,

HEALTH; clinical/hospital placement and community health education.
EDUCATION; to improve access to quality education{provision of teaching aids, teachers etc}

RESEARCH; on behalf of students research, institutional research, individual research etc.

ENVIRONMENT; this is to help make Ghana green; planting of trees, water projects, etc.

AGRICULTURE/FARM; teaching local farmers on modernize/technological farm practice to increase their out put, helping on farm to harvest or planting of crops, fruits, vegetables and more, help in farm management etc.

INTERCULTURAL PROGRAMS.

CONSTRUCTION/BUILDING;{schools, clinics/hospitals, library, etc}
But long term programmes could be arranged for volunteers who are interested in longer stay for months, a year or more.

International and African volunteers work together on a month{s} or more projects in the above mentioned areas. Everyone is welcome to apply for the volunteering projects, since there will be some days' training in the issues to be addressed. Destiny Volunteers offers worthwhile, exciting volunteering opportunities in Africa, bringing benefits to the communities as well as the volunteers.

African American Homeschoolers Networ, Agogo, Ghana, West Africa

The African American Homeschoolers Network (AAHN) is an organization established for families seeking educational resources. Founded by Meka Hunt and Akosua Boateng in 2002, the network has grown consistently.

AAHN is partnered with the Youth Institute of Science and Technology (YIST) located in Accra, Ghana.

This NGO provides education to children in Africa. It has a training and internship program for teachers.

This program allows students in American colleges to travel to Africa to learn valuable teaching skills and practice their skills in the classroom. YIST includes GIST, an educational program specifically designed for the education of girls.

African Women's Development Fund Awdf, Accra, Ghana, West Africa

African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) is a grant-making foundation which supports local, national and regional organisations in Africa working towards women's empowerment.

AWDF through institutional capacity building and programme development seeks to build a culture of learning and partnerships within the African women's movement.

The vision of AWDF is for African women to live in a world in which there is social justice, equality and respect for women's human rights. To this end, our mission is to mobilise financial resources to support local, national and regional initiatives led by women, which will lead to the achievement of this vision.

AWDF, the first Africa-wide fundraising and grant-making fund, was established in June 2000 by three African Women who have been active in various institutions within and outside Africa.

The founders, Ms Joanna Foster (Ghana) Dr Hilda Tadria (Uganda/Ethiopia) and Ms Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi (UK/Nigeria), have a track record of successful empowerment interventions, which have helped strengthen the African Women’s Movement.

The objectives of AWDF are fundraising within and outside Africa, grant-making on an Africa-wide basis, communicating the work and achievements of African women’s organisations and providing technical assistance to grantees. AWDF has funded over 800 women's organisations in 41 African countries.

Rural Development Support Organisatio Of Ghana, Kumasi, West Africa

Rural Development Support Organisation (RUDSO)was established in the year 2002 as an independent, non government, not for profit, non- partisan and non- religious organisation. It is duly registered in Ghana and has been accredited by the deparment of social to operate as an NGO as required under the laws of the country.

RUDSO is also a memeber of Ghana Association of Private Voluntary (GAPVOD)and world Association of NGOs (WANGO)

Overall, poverty decreased between 1991/1992 and 1998/1999 from 5107% to 39.5%. However, these figures mask incidence of growing and deepening poverty among certain social groups and localities. Our food crop farmers, who live in the rural areas, continue to endure the most of poverty in the country, as they consitute more than 59% of the poor in the country.

We agree perfectly with Mahatma Ghandi when he said, poverty is the worst form of violence and that the only way to alleviate poverty is to revive and improve on the skills of the local people. Our only aim therfore is to assist the resouce poor, the excluded, and the vulnerable to achive qualitative cahnges in their welfare.

Our stated commitment is to reduce poverty and stimulate the sustainable development of deprived communities thorugh developing hte potentials of individual members of society to advance hteir socio-economic welfare and that of their communities in ways that are culturally and environmentally sustainable.

In order to chieve total and holistic improvements in the welfare of our partners, RUDSO will work together with raual communities and deprived urban neighbouhoods to provide social and technical infrastructure. Our focus will also be on sustainable human development by means of building the capacity of civil society at the grassroots through strengthening their skills and knowledge to effect and manage change at al levels - family, local ,nation, and world.

We believe in combinbing the concept good governance and ecomonmic empowerment in the war on poverty in order that the poor can prosper in an atmosphere of freedom, juustice, and accountability. In additio nwe will advocate for he poor, vulnerable, excluded, and underpriviledged in society so that their views are well informed and well represented at al levels of government.

Nature Conservation Research Centre-ncrc, Accra, Ghana, West Africa

Nature Conservation Research Centre (NCRC) is recognized internationally as a leader in developing rural ecotourism and community protected areas as a means of economic development and resource conservation.

NCRC’s initiatives have facilitated sustainable economic development in scores of poor rural areas of Ghana and other nations in West Africa.

Founded in Ghana in 1996, NCRC has grown rapidly to become Ghana’s leading indigenous conservation organisation, as well as a key actor in West African civil society.

Ghana’s National Tourism Policy has adopted NCRC’s model as the preferred approach to the development of rural tourism.

The model is acknowledged globally as one of the most successful rural tourism initiatives being implemented today.

NCRC is a Ghanaian non-profit organisation implementing conservation initiatives to promote a greater awareness of and protection for the natural, historic and cultural diversity of Ghana and, ultimately, the West African sub-region.

Volunteer And Culture Xp, Akatsi, Ghana, West Africa

The mission of Volunteer and Culture Xp is to create and promote volunteer opportunities that improve the lives of others and the environment in which they live.

We do this by supporting the work of local communities in various countriesthrough the placement of international volunteers.

At the same time, we work with all of our partners to ensure that each program meets the high standards of quality that you expect and deserve as a volunteer.

All volunteer programs depend on the skilled coordination of a variety of elements: organized projects, volunteers, meaningful work and supportive staff.

It is our goal at Volunteer and Culture Xp to get all this set up for you. We use our experience and resources to provide volunteer experiences that bring pride and satisfaction to everyone involved.

Ghanathink Foundation, Accra, Ghana, West Africa

We are an Africa-focused think-tank based in Ghana. We aim, among other things, to serve as a source and reservoir of ideas for the advancement of all humanity, beginning from the society and culture that has most influenced our way of thinking about the world—our cultural neighborhood Ghana; to organize the mass of brilliant Ghanaian talent around the world in the service of their cultural neighborhood.

GhanaThink seeks to mobilize and deploy Diasporean volunteer labor for the primary benefit of Ghana, and consequently of Africa and the whole world, for we are each our brother's keeper.

31st December Women`s Movement Dwm, Accra, Ghana, West Africa

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ClickMAX is a phased project designed to cover the Accra and Tema Metropolitan areas and more importantly to replace your dialup service with an ALWAYS-ON service and to save costs on monthly recurrent costs.

Orphanage Africa-oa, Agomeda, Ghana, West Africa

OrphanAid Africa (OA) is a U.S. 501c3 non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco California. The organization was originally founded in Ghana in 2002 and additionally has registered branches in Europe with the shared aim of assisting the many orphans and vulnerable children in need of care as a result of the twin stress of the HIV/AIDs epidemic and the increase of rural o-urban migration in Ghana.

In addition to our headquarters in Ghana, OA operates and builds awareness in the USA and Europe with branches registered in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States, all sharing the similar goal of developing fundraising programs that will help fund our OVC care initiatives in Ghana.

Sankofa Dance Institute, Madina, Ghana, West Africa

The Sankofa Dance Institute was founded in December 2001 in Accra, the capital of Ghana. The Institute was founded by professional dance instructors who have previously taught at both the University of Ghana, Legon and Senior Secondary Schools throughout the Greater Accra Region.

The Dance Institute strives to preserve the unique Ghanain/ African culture of traditional music and dance. As the Ghanaian beliefs and culture struggle to compete with the ever-growing themes of urbanization and modernization, the Dance Institute aims to conserve the traditional aspects of Ghanaian life and expose its beauty to people all over the world.

The Dance institute also aims to give back to Ghanaian nationals by setting up an orphanage in a rural community that maintains high rates of HIV/AIDS. Your involvement and interest in the Sankofa Dance Institute will not only help preserve a nations traditions, but allow you to help out the abondanded and struggling children of a developing nation.

Centre For Policy Analysis-cepa, Accra, Ghana, West Africa

The Centre for Policy Analysis (CEPA) was established on the 4th of January 1993 as an independent, non-governmental think- tank, which provides rigorous analysis and perspectives on economic policy issues of Ghana and the developing world.

CEPA has a mandate to promote a non-partisan informed debate on key policy issues on the economy of Ghana with emphasis on macroeconomics growth and poverty alleviation issues.

Specifically our research deals with fiscal and monetary policy; debt management, trade policy; industrial policy; the social sectors, agricultural policy and to propose feasible policy alternatives in these areas. The Centre holds seminars and workshops to share its findings with Ghanaian, African and international institutions and organisations.

Fair River International Association For Development - Fariad, Accra, Ghana, West Africa

Ghana being a developing country has development problems which have to be attended to. Most of these problems affect women who form about 51% of the total population and mostly head of households.

Due to financial and cultural constraints, girls are not able to have he maximum education, hence the high percentage of illiterate women. About 80% of smallholder farmers and households' heads do not have access to extension services and credit to improve their farming methods to increase their yield and income.

This has got a negative impact on their livelihoods. Lack of basic education also has affected their livelihood, making them poor and depend dent. It has also made them ignorant of their civic, political, human rights, privileges and responsibilities.

Fair River International Association for Development – ( FARIAD ) is an indigenous, private, voluntary, non-profit, non-governmental organisation (NGO), founded in 1998 to undertake a wide range social and economic development activities aimed at alleviating hardship and vulnerability among marginalized and disadvantaged groups raising the image of women and empowering them economically.