Infant mortality in Ghana is about ten times higher than in the Netherlands (32 deaths per 1,000 births). That is why we were pleased when receiving the request from the Cape Coast University Hospital to furnish an intensive care unit for premature babies with medical equipment and baby cods. In good and intensive consultation between […]
The Esther Dankwah Foundation contacted us to let us know that the maternity ward of the Fumso Ketewa CHPS Compound in the Ashanti region, was in desperate need of an upgrade of the maternity ward. There was a lack of equipment to guarantee a healthy childbirth. With a donation of Help Ghana, all equipment could […]
After the previous activities in collaboration with Lakeside Disabled “Rights Advocacy in Dambai (VR, see completed projects) and the Orthopedic Training Center in Nsawam (see completed projects), funds have been made available to support individual young people through an operation. These are performed by Dutch surgeons who regularly visit Ghana. In 2019, our contact person […]
Thanks to the proceeds of the flea market at Mill Hill College in Goirle in 2019, sufficient funds became available to support the S.D.A. hospital of Dr. Kodwo Sarfo Agyeman in Obuasi. Dr. Sarfo was trained in the Netherlands (in Nijmegen) and after his studies he chose to return home to support the people in […]
Through the foundation of our contact person Emmanuel Nkrumah in the region around Koforidua, the initiative arose to assist the surrounding rural communities in the preventive measures related to the virus. In Ghana, too, rules regarding distance and personal protection applied, and the schools were closed. At the request of the Compassion for Humanity Foundation, […]
In the Krachi East District of the Volta Region, an association for the disabled was established in 2010, initially for individual members, but later more and more self-help groups and organizations for the disabled joined. The Lakeside Cross now works with 18 organisations for the physically handicapped and the blind. The aim is to train […]
The Orthopedic Training Centre in Nsawam is one of our oldest relationships in Ghana. The center where students are trained to make orthopedic aids was founded in 1961 by a Dutch priest. It has its own workshop and meets a huge need. It is still the only one of its kind in the English speaking […]