by Engage Now Staff | Mar 7, 2016 | Education, ENA, Ghana
ENA donated all the materials and the school children and teachers were extremely grateful. The Headmaster, Mr Seidu Banle, shed tears of joy. He was especially grateful for the scarce commodity of “chalk” to write on the blackboards. Prior to this donation, the...
by Engage Now Staff | Feb 24, 2016 | Education, ENA, Ghana, Literacy
ENA donated text books, teachers notebooks for preparing notes and chalk for writing on the board. The 100 students received uniforms, text books, pens and note books to help them study more effectively and get up to speed with their colleagues in well-endowed...
by Engage Now Staff | Feb 19, 2016 | Education, ENA, Ethiopia
Abebe is a 36 year old father of three living in a rural village outside Debre Zeit, Ethiopia. Abebe struggles to support his wife and three children as a farmer because he only has a 4th grade education. As a child, the only school he had access to stopped teaches...
by Engage Now Staff | Feb 12, 2016 | ENA, Ethiopia, Health and Medical Services, Healthcare
Gobasi, Ethiopia is a rural village with 5,000 people located about 75 miles southeast of Ethiopia’s capitol Addis Ababa. A health post was built 30 years ago using local soil, stones and wood by the local people in the community. The structure was showing...
by Engage Now Staff | Feb 8, 2016 | Education, ENA, Ghana, Orphan Support
Palace Gold Child Support is a fully registered NGO authorized by the Department of Social Welfare to support poor and needy children in Ghana. Their main objective is to help reduce child delinquency in deprived communities by implementing the logistics needed to...
by Engage Now Staff | Feb 5, 2016 | Ghana, Health and Medical Services, Healthcare, Human Trafficking, In the News, Modern Slavery
We know that families living without healthcare coverage suffer from far more than just inadequate access to medications and health services. Illness among the poor often leads families to seek desperate measures to find money for medications. This desperation places...
by Engage Now Staff | Jan 26, 2016 | Anti-Slavery, ENA, Human Trafficking, In the News, Modern Slavery, Uganda
Breaking news- Ugandan Police officers working with Engage Now Africa and partners led the raid of a Ugandan business which brought forth enough evidence to convince the Ugandan government to make an immediate ban on Ugandans working as housemaids in Saudi Arabia. As...
by Engage Now Staff | Jan 22, 2016 | Anti-Slavery, ENA, Human Trafficking, In the News, Modern Slavery, Uganda
human trafficking prevention training to locate and arrest a witch doctor after an eight-year hunt! The investigation and capture made headlines around Uganda (pictured below)! Chris Gay, ENA’s End Modern Slavery Managing Director was interviewed and quoted...
by Engage Now Staff | Jan 21, 2016 | Education, ENA, Ethiopia
As part of an energy reduction project, ENA collaborated with experts from the Woreda District Energy Office to provide 18 villages with energy saving solar and Mirte stoves. This project has already proved to be life changing for over 80,000 direct and indirect...
by Engage Now Staff | Jan 20, 2016 | Education, ENA, Ghana, Health and Medical Services
Meet Emmanuela! Emmanuela is an intelligent, driven 18 year old Engage Now Africa (ENA) scholarship recipient who dreams of becoming a nurse. Since Emmanuela’s mother passed away five years ago, she has been the sole provider for her sickly father and family....