Gender Equality, Public Health & Welfare in Ghana

Thank you for the ongoing support of this project.

Over the last quarter, we've  aggressively increased the aims, objectives and fundraising activities for this project.

A formal committee of welfare professionals has been created to help train educators and respond to child welfare issues across the community. This includes the first stages of selecting, appointing and formally qualifying eight school councillors; current teaching staff at partner schools who show the requisite skills and aptitude to take on such a role.

For the remainder of 2022, this project will train these individuals in mental health awareness, first aid, behavioural and learning difficulties, and how to identify and respond to suspected cases of child abuse or neglect.

The outcome of this training will be that each of these partner schools will have a single, trained and organised professional who will take the lead in welfare issues, administrate cases, interact with families and local authorities, and offer advice to their colleagues on appropriate welfare and safeguarding responses.

This project should make a considerable, sustainable difference to the ability of local schools to understand and respond to issues of welfare related to their students, improving their abilities to identify and deliver appropriate responses case-by-case.

This process has been supported by the donation and fitting of professional commercial-grade first aid kits at each of the schools, as a first step, and a schedule of training and qualifications is being developed as we speak. You donations have been valuable in setting this up.

We've increased partnership relations with a number of organisations focused on the health of women and children such as a newly built Child & Women’s Health Centre in Kokrobite village.  

We've also formed an alliance with a U.S. based medical NGO called Gold Coast Medical, who travel annually to Ghana to provide free, broad ranging health screening and treatment events. After a successful first event this quarter, we hosted an event involving 50 medical professionals where 300 community members received consultations and treatment for a range of local health conditions. The event was a huge success and we are now the preferred partner for that organisation to deliver these types of events on an annual basis.

In addition, our team continues to deliver hundreds of hours of classes, workshops and activities across the community each month, educating on health and welfare issues, from gender violence, to first aid, to menstrual health.  We facilitate knowledge and expertise to a group of over 1000 children on a monthly basis, covering a vast array of difficult and often taboo subjects and creating a safe environment for children, particularly girls, to ask questions about their bodies, welfare and concerns. 

Huge thanks to everyone has donated to this important and urgent work that is truly changing lives and improving the health of children and women. Our work in Ghana has never been more important!

Thank you, 

The Ghana Team