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Tuesday, December 24, 2024

United for Creation Care: Ghana's Faith Community Takes Action

World Vision Ghana, in partnership with 22 denominations and para-church organizations, recently hosted a landmark conference to develop the National Creation Care Framework.

World Vision wins award

World Vision Ghana wins Millennium Excellence Award

World Vision was the only international non-governmental organisation (INGO) among the over 60 distinguished personalities and corporate bodies honoured...

livelihood

World Vision and partners launch project to conserve biodiversity and improve livelihoods

The Landscape and Environmental Agility across the Nation (LEAN) Project is a four-year project funded by the European Union flagship Global Climate Change...

Samuel is now an apprentice following his vocational training in Ghana.

From child labour to apprentice: Samuel's story

When Samuel (name changed to protect his identity) was just 12 years old, his mother died. Left with no one to care for him and his grandmother, he had no...

Shemema's poem to help end child marriage in Ghana

As we count down to this year's African Union Day of the African Child (DAC 2021) on 16 June, a World Vision-sponsored child, Shemema recites a poem...

Savings

Borrowing with Dignity

When economic freedom exists, human dignity flourishes; and when people are deprived of economic freedom, their choices are restricted. This was the...

Ghana National Director visits Gbatigbanto community

The National Director of World Vision in Ghana paid a monitoring visit to the Gbatigbanto community, with an aim to engage with community members on how...

livelihood

Sustaining farming and livelihoods in Volta region

World Vision has established a presence in Segbale village - Volta region, and over the next five years the organisation will be working with the community...

Water

Segbale village seeks World Vision's intervention to provide potable water

The World Vision team is in Segbale village, Agortime -Ziope district in the Volta region, southern Ghana. World Vision established a new Area Programme...

teenage mother story

World Vision working to tackle teenage pregnancy in Argotime-Ziope

Seventeen-year-old Rejoice (pseudonym) has become a mother well before her time; she fell victim to teenage pregnancy, and this has affected many aspects...

unlock literacy

Unlock Literacy programme enhances reading skills for Emmanuel

Bright eyed, eight-year-old Emmanuel was first identified by his teacher, Madam Comfort, who took an interest in him because of his disability. He has no...

Vivian in front of her store

Savings group helps a mother realise her dream to see her son in university

With the undying dream of having her child go through to university seeming a long way away three years ago, Vivian Tseyi recounts her helplessness when...

Patrick watering his dad's farm

Solar-powered irrigation pump makes learning easy for children in Burankoun

Like many other children his age, Patrick would have to walk sometimes up to three kilometres to fetch water for the household. One trip for water was...

MOU signing GJA and World Vision Ghana

World Vision and Ghana Journalists Association partner to promote child protection and humanitarian development work

World Vision and the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) have entered into a partnership agreement to address key issues regarding Child Protection, Water...

John and his family

John farms into prosperity thanks to Regreening Africa Project

On a three-acre plot of land where John would grow maize, he would only get three bags (300 kilograms) of maize. With the application of appropriate land...

faith

Child health and protection no longer the sole responsibility of women in Talensi and West Gonja

In rural communities, aside the Chiefs and “Tendaanas” (land custodians), faith leaders have great respect and honour and wield so much power and authority...

faith

The lights of hope shine on Krabonso as ginger powder saves the community

Krabonso has the potential for agriculture, but that was not quite so in previous years. Things were going to change after World Vision's Empowered World...

FMNR

Reaping the fruit of the land: The story of Fariga community

During the dry season in the Upper East region of Ghana, water bodies are often all dried up and the atmosphere is windy and dusty. Communities would, a...

Covid-19

World Vision donates critical PPE in the fight against COVID-19

Officials from World Vision, the Government of Ghana and the health sector held a ceremony at World Vision's offices in Accra, to carry out the...

Education

World Vision breaks the cycle of absenteeism with a gift donation of 100 bicycles

In Sekyere East District, in a remote village located in the Ashanti region of Ghana, 100 school-going students have received a life-changing gift of...

Covid-19

Ruth becomes a hygiene ambassador

Ruth had always heard about the importance of hand washing but never paid attention to why she should wash her hands. She held the belief that she had been...

clean water

Clean Water for Amotare Community

The people of Amotare, can at last heave a sigh of relief as their struggles to get clean water has ended. For the first time in many years, families in...

food security

Community Savings group changes a farmer's life

Carlos is from the Siega community in the Bawku West District. He is 39 years old and has been farming since he was a teenager. Growing up as a young boy...

wash

The connection between learning and access to potable water

For the children of the Poase Cement community, the idea of waking up before sunrise every morning and spending hours walking just to find water for...

The impact of a new mechanised water system in Nyambong

Before World Vision constructed a solar-powered mechanised water system for the communities in Nyambong, children and families had been fetching water from...