by Engage Now Africa Staff | Aug 6, 2020 | Country, COVID-19 Response, ENA, Ghana, Heal
Our COVID-19 prevention efforts have centered in rural communities outside of Accra. Our team created a baseline survey to better understand community knowledge and spread of COVID-19. We trained and deployed health care facilitators and volunteers to create...
by Engage Now Africa Staff | Apr 30, 2020 | Community Training, Ethiopia, Ghana, Namibia, Sierra Leone
During this time of uncertainty, we wanted to reach out to each of you, our ENA family, with confidence and a strong belief that we will make it through this experience and come out stronger and more unified. In our fight to unite together, may we offer a few key...
by Engage Now Africa Staff | Apr 30, 2020 | Adult Literacy, Ghana
We are excited to announce that United Way Ghana and ENA have partnered to find sustainable solutions for the delivery of quality education to everyone, especially vulnerable communities. The strategic goals of our partnership include the following: Promote Adult...
by Engage Now Africa Staff | Apr 30, 2020 | Adult Literacy, Ghana
Ayishetu, a recent vocational and literacy graduate observed. “My parents did not have money to pay for my school fees, so I was thrown out of school and eventually, I dropped out.” In 2018, after hearing about our literacy program she enrolled. She was thrilled to...
by Engage Now Africa Staff | Apr 30, 2020 | Albinism, Ghana
Mavis lovingly holds her 5 year-old son Nathaniel who was born with albinism. While she loves and cares for her son, she has struggled getting to where she is today. Mavis bravely shares that the birth of her son was “terribly traumatic.” She was reluctant to...
by Engage Now Africa Staff | Apr 30, 2020 | End Modern Slavery, Ghana, Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery
Trokosi is a cultural practice among the Ewe tribe in Ghana, Togo, and Benin. The practice requires a young virgin girl to be offered to fetish priests in atonement for the crimes committed by a relative. This form of slavery requires a girl to serve the shrine and...
