Providential Aid Organization(pao), Kumasi , Ghana, West Africa

Providential Aid Organization (PAO) is a Charitable Organization in Ghana that help develop the potential of disadvantaged Women, Youth and Children, and improving communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers.

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.

Community Development Aid, Volta, Ghana, West Africa

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AID (CDA) is a local non-profit organisation made up of both national and foreign volunteers. Membership is open to all irrespective of gender and age.

The organisation is devoted to helping rural communities in the areas of education (computer), health, environment, promoting volunteerism and involving volunteers in program that enable rural communities help themselves. Our goals are designed to supplement government and for-profit organizations who cannot stem the tide of poverty and discrimination alone.

The group works with all ages, genders and ethnic groups in Ghana, especially at the rural level. The group works on the strength of volunteers and the kindness of contributors.

Ghana Rural Action Support Programme Grasp, Hohoe, West Africa

Ghana Rural Action Support Programme (GRASP) a not-for-profit Non Governmental Organization (NGO) based in Ghana. Our aim is to support the rural poor, especially women and children to realize their full potentials and contribute to sustainable improvement in their lives by facilitating lasting change through capacity building, education, advocacy, networking, partnerships and forming linkages with other organizations that have common vision.

Sirigu Women’s Organization Of Pottery And Art, Bolgatanga, Ghana, West Africa

Since 1997, more than 150 women of Sirigu have formed an organization for pottery and art. Their aim is to preserve and develop their traditional culture and to provide tourist services and produce high quality art that has its roots in the village culture. Sirigu Women’s Organization Of Pottery And Art.

This way, they earn some money to supplement the farming activities and improve their social position. The women received intensive training to produce high quality pottery and paintings.

Tourists guides have been trained to show visitors the cultural and natural beauties of the village. A well designed and decorated visitors’center with an art gallery and guest house has been built. Since 2002 Swopa has received many national awards for their outstanding tourist services and quality art work.

A highlight was the visit of the Secretary General of UN, Kofi Annan.

Ghana Information And Knowledge Sharing Network Ginks, Accra, Ghana

The whole purpose of GINKS is to provide the linkage between the essence of our vision and mission. Our business as a network is to create a structure through which all relevant ICT initiatives will be facilitated. As a body, GINKS intends to act in this direction as both a catalyst and filling in the process of using ICT as a tool for development.

GINKS as a network operates in the following areas:. Commissioning research on ICTs and development, Publish an influential on-line and off-line quarterly newsletter, organise and participate in workshops, seminars and fora on ICT4D related themes in line with our mission and vision, undertake activities and programmes to generate and source for funds in aid of the network, relate to organisations and institutions in a strategic way to form fruitful partnership and build successful networks, GINKS also provide a united front for advocacy on ICTs for development themes and issues.

Center For The Development Of People Cedep, Kumasi, Ghana, West Africa

Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP) is a mature and vibrant non-governmental organisation with more than 18 years experience working with people at the grassroots level.

Established in 1983, CEDEP has grown to become one of the major service NGOs in Ghana, respected for its capacity to carry out large and small-scale development programmes reliably and effectively.

CEDEP’S mission is to support, facilitate and build the capacity of the marginalised and the vulnerable groups, and influence policy, in pursuit of sustainable human development in Ghana.

Rita Marley Foundation, Aburi, Ghana, West Africa

The Rita Marley Foundation is supported with funds from donations and with collaborators. will work towards the alleviation of poverty in the peoples of the developing and less developed countries.

Its long term function will be to eradicate poverty and hunger in specific, selected communities using as its tools, empowerment of the communities through the creation of economic investments, improvement of educational opportunities and developing the knowledge and proper practice in nutrition and helath care.

As an NGO, the Rita Marley Foundation will administer and manage identified projects deserving assistance.

Ghana Wildlife Society Gws, Accra, Ghana, West Africa

The Society is a non-governmental, non-political, non-profit making environmental organization which seeks to conserve wildlife in all its forms to ensure a better environment and improved quality of life for all people.

The GWS was first formed in the early 1970s but functioned for a few years and became dormant.

In 1991, it was revived by the Save the Seashore Birds Project – Ghana (SSPC-G), a project that aimed at protecting sea and shore birds and their coastal wetland habitats in Ghana.

When the SSBP-G ended in June 1994, the Society took over and continued the conservation activities initiated by the project.