United Nations Development Programme Undp Ghana, Takoradi, West Africa

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the United Nations’ global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to build a better life. UNDP has a presence and an unrivalled track-record in supporting national development efforts in 166 countries. Its current priority is to help all countries achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.

The UNDP Ghana Country Office is a valued, trusted and reliable adviser to, and development partner with, the Ghana Government and other stakeholders in national development.

As Ghana builds its own development solutions, UNDP provides ideas for strategic development projects and capacity building in support of continued efforts to eradicate pockets of extreme poverty, improve gender equality, reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS, promote and protect human rights and enhance environmental management.

UNDP also supports Ghana’s aspirations to achieve development gains in poorer countries through several South-South initiatives.

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

ClickMAX is a wireless technology that provides high-throughput broadband connections over long distances. ClickMAX also provides high-speed enterprise connectivity for business.

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.