World Vision Ghana

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Ghana Office
World Vision started working in Ghana in 1979, and is operational in all 10 administrative regions of the country through 34 Area Development Programmes (ADPs), as well as institutional and special projects. Some two million people are directly benefiting from World Vision’s work in Ghana through health and nutrition, education, food security, water and sanitation, gender and development and micro-enterprise development programmes. Currently World Vision is: • providing access to clean drinking water and helping to eradicate guinea-worm by drilling and equipping more than 2,300 boreholes with hand pumps since 1986. We are also teaching people about better hygiene and sanitation, and constructing latrines. • helping children go to school, by building schools, providing desks, textbooks and other stationery, establishing mobile libraries, and awarding scholarships to hundreds of needy children. World Vision also supports teachers by providing accommodation and training in English and mathematics. • improving health and nutrition by providing quality, accessible health services to children and their families, including immunizations to 500,000 children and de-worming treatment to 250,000 children. Hundreds of traditional birth attendants have received training; and mosquito nets provided to families help protect against malaria. • responding to HIV and AIDS by involving teachers, pastors, traditional leaders and peer educators in facilitating HIV and AIDS education, counseling and awareness programmes. World Vision offers medical and financial support to people living with HIV and AIDS, and to orphans and vulnerable children. • supporting micro-enterprise development by conducting micro-credit financing, offering skills training and linkages to markets. So far, more than US$2 million has helped 10,000 people, most of whom are women. • Increasing food security by building capacities of farmers in scientific methods of crop and animal production, resulting in boosted productivity and increased incomes. • Helping communities prepare for disasters and build resilience.

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