The project Coordinator and the field officer touched base with our clients, namely the teenage mothers and pregnant teenagers....

2018 ANNUAL REPORT OSIWA REPORT The Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition (GACC) is implementing the project dubbed “Strengthening...

TOASE HOSPITAL CHILDREN BLOCK The construction of the project began in 2016. The project is within the Toase Hospital District. (The...

Preventive Child Sexual Assault Workshops An American volunteer named Seiria Sessame and a Ghanaian volunteer spent 10 weeks in February...

In January of 2017 Mike Owusu travelled to Accra to attend a meeting of the Ghana Tax Justice Coalition. This coalition works at the...

October and especially November were busy months for Light for Children volunters and staff. Mike spoke to the students of Mampong...

In August, volunteer Jenny Lee from the UK joined us to work in the Education Center library. We were able to keep the library open for...

In June, Light for Children hosted an annual visit from BTP (Beyond the Pivot), a Hong Kong based NGO that partners with us to build...

Light for Children's executive director, the late Yaw Otchere Baffour, was actively involved in a task force to shut down illegal...

In May, the Ghana chapter of Girls Not Brides, of which Light for Children is a member, held its annual general meeting in Kumasi. This...

If you’ve ever tried to set up any kind of business or public service, you know how helpful it is to have reliable statistics to work...

Carina Monstad a long-term volunteer from Norway, has been assisting at the Philippa Maternity Hospital in Mampong, helping the midwife...

Photo by Chris Curnutt On March 19 we said a final farewell to Yaw. His family, NGO colleagues, church members, Light for Children staff...

In January, Light for Children hosted a group of students from the College of William and Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia (USA). These...

In December, Light for Children staff members visited several villages around the Lake Bosumtwe area to meet with community leaders....

In November, Mike Owusu (our Program Coordinator) attended a meeting of the Ghana NGOs Coalition on the Rights of the Child to discuss...

This October, Light for Children hosted a volunteer from Brazil for the first time. Fernanda Campos, joined by Sofia Maiorana of Sweden,...

Mike Owusu, our program coordinator, attended a meeting of civil society organizations in September on the topic of Ghana’s new education...

At the end of July, we said goodbye to our American and British volunteers. In August, we were joined by Katrine Halling Liljedahl of...

Light for Children’s volunteers continued their hard work on several projects in July. In addition to conducting Preventive Child Sexual...