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OUR COMMONWEALTH OF GOODWILLâ„¢
The Aistiphi Gazette – Ghana
Empowerment & Justice entries
From Our CommonwealthÂ
Ghana has its fair share of deep socio-cultural, economic and political structures that empower and privilege some individuals and groups while disempowering and disarticulating others, especially women and girls, individuals living with special needs and ethnic minorities. A complex intersection of age, gender, education level, income status, rural v. urban residence, disability status, etc. define people’s vulnerability. We end up with an uneven field of daily life in which the disadvantaged get less and less access to resources and opportunities.
The surest way to keep a people down is to educate the men and neglect the women. If you educate a man you simply educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate a family [and by inference, a nation].
Ghana has its fair share of deep socio-cultural, economic and political structures that empower and privilege certain individuals and groups while disempowering and disarticulating others, especially women and girls, individuals living with special needs and ethnic minorities. A complex intersection of age, gender, level of educational, rural v. urban residence, income status, disability status, etc. define people’s vulnerability. We end up with an uneven field of daily life in which the disadvantaged get less and less access to resources and opportunities.
The surest way to keep a people down is to educate the men and neglect the women. If you educate a man you simply educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate a family.
Ghana’s proud Commonwealth of Goodwillâ„¢ recognizes that social discrimination and marginalization affects people’s life chances by limiting their ability to access opportunities and live out their full potentials. In this section of the Aistiphi Gazette, we document social interventions deployed in Ghana’s Philanthropy Spaceâ„¢ by members of Our Commonwealth of Goodwill to foster equal and equitable access and bring us closer to our aspirations of a just society.Â
Girls Get Equal
The Rebecca Foundation distributed micro enterprise start-up business kits to some 180 women drawn from Western, Western North, Central and Greater Accra Regions. The gift was made to mark International Women’s Day 2020. Beneficiaries included 130 fishmongers,...
First Atlantic Bank inaugurated a fully furnished classroom facility for the Unit for the Blind at the Cape Coast School for the Deaf. The Bank also equipped the classrooms with requisite educational technologies. The facility which was built to help address serious...
The Ghana International Women’s Club (GIWC) gave students of Akuapem Demonstration School for the Deaf to a TV set, printers, photocopier, books, stationery to support their school work. GIWC also gave the school building supplies and tools, maize, rice, oil, canned...
Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (WiSTEM) held a weeklong STEM mentorship and career guidance camp for 200 female students from selected senior high schools in Ashanti Region. The program was supported by Vodafone Ghana and Office of the...
MTN Ghana Foundation funded training for 20 persons with disability (PWDs) at the St. Theresa Centre for the Physically Challenged at Akatsi-Abor in Keta. MTN Foundation provided GH¢156,000 in funding to cover full scholarship for all 20 students, which included...
Standard Chartered Bank hosted a gender empowerment and skills development programme for its 45 Goal coaches and facilitators between the ages of 11 and 20 years on the second anniversary of StandChart Ghana's Goal project’s launch. Working with Debate Mate Ltd,...
L’Oreal West Africa refurbished Tetteh Ocloo State School for the Deaf at Adjei Kojo. The company painted classrooms, replaced the plumbing system in washrooms, renovated students' playground and installed new play structures. Staff of the company also gave the school...
The Ghana Code Club, an after-school programme that teaches children computer programming was launched at Agona Swedru in Ghana's Central Region. The program will train 750 young girls to develop or create computer games, animations, interactive arts, websites and...
The 'Imagine' Empowerment Program of U.S. non-profit Empower Institute trained selected women from ABANTU for Development, Solidaridad West Africa, Mentoring Women Ghana and Gender Centre for Empowering Development (GenCED). So far, about 700 women and some men in...
The Kyereh Foundation, which addresses menstrual hygiene issues, donated menstrual cups to school girls in six island communities of the Volta Region. The donation was part of the foundation's three-day menstrual hygiene educational tour held to mark the International...
MTN Ghana provided support for Skate Soccer in Ghana, a game played by persons with mobility disability, especially polio survivors. The game was organized by International Federation of Skate Soccer (IFSS). The game is intended in part to get mobility challenged...
The Embassy of Israel, partnering with Henry Djaba Foundation and German International Agency, held a capacity-building training for 100 aspiring assembly women to prepare them to contest and win upcoming District Assembly Elections. The 'Women to Win Elections'...
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