When you empower a woman, you empower a nation. Women remain to be caregivers of their children alongside toiling their land. In Ghana, women are exposed to cultural practices that push them further from realizing their dreams. It’s upon us to change the prevailing situation by empowering our women.

Stichting Sharing and Caring Parents empowers women by;

• Fighting the cultural practices that oppress Ghanaians women and girls
• Supporting women to start small businesses
• Capacity building
• Training and mentorship
• Offering financial literacy
• Financing women-led groups
• Provision of sanitary towel to school-going girls
• Sponsoring needy girls’ education

Poverty levels have been going down in Ghana. However, since the onset of Covid-19 and the major global economic turmoil, the poverty levels will spike. Poverty is the key factor to human misery, from poor education, health, and living standards. Therefore, efforts toward eradicating poverty cuts across several other human miseries. The Stichting Sharing and caring Parents aims to fight poverty in Ghana through;

• Promoting farming
• Economic empowerment
• Creation of employment
• Small business start-ups
• Financial aid and loans

Education is power and fights ignorance. While basic education should be universal, some girls and boys in Ghana do not have access to education. Some education challenges in Ghana include overcrowded classes, few trained teachers, inadequate school books and stationeries, lack of clean water, and lack of sanitary pads.

It is sad to have girls out of school due to lack of sanitary towels, early pregnancies, and forced marriages.

The Stichting Sharing and Caring Parents promote education by;

• Providing sanitary towels to school-going girls
• Condemning barbaric acts like forced marriages, sexual harassment, and female genital mutilation, keeping girls from school.
• Provision of books and other school stationeries
• Building more classrooms
• Recruiting more teachers
• Provision of water and sanitation

Food is the most basic survival need, and just like any other developing country, Ghana struggles with hunger, and 27% of its households are at the risk of starvation. The main reason Ghana struggles with hunger is that its agriculture is rain-fed. The change in climate renders it impossible to depend on rains for bountiful harvests.

Therefore the organization strives to combat hunger by;

• Having feeding programs
• Introduction of digital farming systems and irrigation methods
• Teaching farmers on sustainable farming

Youth unemployment is rampant in Ghana. The stability of a nation depends on the stability of the next generation. Therefore, it is crucial to focus efforts on the incoming generation for sustainability. The Stichting Sharing and Caring Parents support youths by;

• Creating employment
• Offering training and mentoring sessions
• Drug abuse treatment and therapies
• Offering financial literacy
• Register youth groups
• Promote and support sports and talents

Only one per cent of the farms cultivated are under irrigation in Ghana. So, with the changing climatic condition, the Northern part of Ghana, which only has one rainy season (the southern region has two rainy seasons), may miss out on bountiful harvests. You cannot entirely depend on rainwater to grow food in this era. Also, just like any other economic venture, agriculture requires the adoption of technology and the use of updated farm systems to realize optimum returns.

Therefore the organization support agriculture through;

• Provision of irrigation water
• Introduction of modern farming systems
• Training farmers of sustainable farming
• Offering financial aid
• Seek local and global markets for the farm produce
• Improve infrastructure
• Introduce processing and storage facilities

Clean water is paramount to human survival; however, not all Ghanaians has access to clean water and sanitation. Therefore, Stichting Sharing and Caring Parents provides;

• Clean and accessible water and sanitation in rural and urban areas
• Provision of drinking water in schools and churches

Healthcare should be universal; however, it is not accessible to all Ghanaians. Some people have to walk for long distances to seek medical services. Some hospitals lack adequate pharmaceutical products, laboratory equipment, and staff to attend to patients.

The organization aims to;

• Purchase medical equipment for local healthcare facilities
• Purchase pharmaceutical products
• Build hospitals in areas that lack health care facilities
• Get more medical staffs