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Press Release on International Women’s Day“A promise is a promise: Time for action to end violence against women.” Today, March 8, 2013 is International Women’s Day (IWD).International Women’s...
The women of Vinving have been confronted with many challenges including poverty, high illiteracy among women, forced marriage, malnutrition, malaria, high infant mortality and maternal deaths as a...
The Bo vocational school was set up in 2003 to provide skills to young girls who dropped out of school or could not continue their education due to poverty. Lack of infrastructure and teachers led to...
Anytime a student’s performance is described as abysmal, people are quick to point accusing fingers at the teacher, parent, the student or the government. Generally, people tend to forget that the...
Unpaid care work refers to the services that women provide in their homes and communities, including preparing food, collecting firewood and water, and taking care of children, the ill and elderly....
Some multinationals in Ghana really pay less in tax than market traders By Emmanuel Budu Addo – Head of Finance, ActionAid Ghana This was the issue that perturbed the Honourable Member of UK...
I have just had the most interesting weekend. On mother’s day I am usually quite sad having lost my mother the year I started working for ActionAid Ghana. She had a massive stroke the day I left for...
We stakeholders of the alleged witches camps in the northern region of Ghana having met in Tamale at Radach Memorial Lodge on the 29th and 30th December 2011, and deliberated on the existence of the...
Greece supporters learn how to process local food stuffs
In a very jubilant and loving mood, 65 ActionAid supporters from Greece spent four days in Kyekyewere, one of ActionAid Ghana’s communities...
Kyekyewere, one of ActionAid Ghana’s 20 communities in the deprived Ga South Municipality was set agog when the vehicles conveying a group of 65 ActionAid supporters from Greece landed at the local...
Asutaure is a lush plain circled by majestic hills and just a few miles to the west of the vast Volta dam. Gravity kindly powers the irrigation channels that make this such a fertile place to grow...
My name is Alice Akuka. I am currently a youth employment teacher. I am married with children Priscilla Awinso, and Ezekiel Awini. I am 28 years old and have completed SSSCE. I completed Bawku...
Mahama is a living example of how simple support for women farmers - in things like tools, seeds and know-how - can help eradicate hunger and change women’s lives.Mahama lives in Namgodi village in...
Farmers here in Ghana – with the help of ActionAid – are organising themselves to push for what they need.Imagine you're a farmer with few resources, living out in the countryside maybe 3 or 4 hours...
When ActionAid heard that the National Theatre of Ghana were rewriting the children’s classic Cinderella from a Ghanaian viewpoint, we saw a great way to bring girl’s rights to life.
