Activities in Ghana

Our partners

Simli Aid (‘Simli’ is a local word meaning friendship) is our partner organisation that works in Ghanaian communities delivering literacy, para-legal, and agro-forestry services to rural women.

Our partners

YOWE - Youth and Women Empowerment Organisation - supports over 25 communities with REFLECT literacy circles.

Village Aid has worked in Northern Ghana since 1993, working in partnership with local organisations. Village Aid now works with Simli Aid (Simli is a local word meaning friendship). Simli Aid works in over 60 communities delivering REFLECT literacy, para-legal, and agro-forestry services to rural women. Simli specialises in the use of social drama as a behaviour change tool to promote people’s human rights and social responsibilities.

Since 2003, Village Aid has been working with the Youth and Women Empowerment Organisation (YOWE) in Eastern Region. YOWE supports over 25 communities with REFLECT literacy circles. YOWE also specialises in honey production and micro-credit as a means of providing young people with employment opportunities. Village Aid also works with Drama Network, which played a key role in delivering Village Aid’s global education programme (World Class Act) in Derbyshire schools.

Country facts & figures

Ghana was the first modern African country to retrieve its independence in 1957, and is now widely regarded as a beacon of democracy in the West African sub-region. Lake Volta was created by president Kwame Nkrumah in 1966 to feed the turbines of the Akosombo dam. This investment provided a stable source of clean electricity for development, but displaced thousands of people in doing so.

Ghana’s economy is developing quickly, with many diaspora Africans returning from abroad to invest. Off-shore oil was recently discovered. Ghanaian democratic institutions should have the capacity and experience to manage this resource effectively for the benefit of the whole nation.

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