Archives in the category: women’s human rights

Lihop Organization

$10,000 for the purchase of a printing machine to strengthen LIHOP’s note book production project. This project will provide income to women living with HIV&AIDS.

Women’s Initiative for Self Empowerment (WISE)

$20,000 to support the core cost of its operations especially in areas of payment of rent, staff salaries and running its counseling and support services for survivors of violence. Facilities for the provision of effective psycho-social support for survivors of violence are quite uncommon in Ghana despite the rise in the rates of gender based […]

Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT)

$8,000 to train selected anti-witchcraft coalition members to advocate and educate communities on reduction of stigma, allegations of witchcraft and subsequent banishments of accused women from their communities and also to screen the documentary on ‘Witches of Gambaga’ in the 3 northern regions of Ghana.

International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA-Ghana)

$30,000 to provide training, mentoring and capacity building for 15 female lawyers from the Greater Accra Region; to organize awareness and sensitize activities on laws promoting and protecting women’s rights through radio programmes. Part of the grant will be used to provide legal aid support for 50 women.

GDA Concepts

$40,000 to support the production and airing of the Standpoint programme on Ghana Television for a period of one year. This is a TV programme that discusses issues very pertinent to women. Many of the issues covered are rarely discussed in public

Busia Foundation International (BFI)

$20,000 to make a documentary on the life and works of Mrs Naa-Morkor Busia, dubbed‘Portrait of a First Lady’. Part of the funds was to support a photo exhibition of her life and works as the wife of a Prime Minister. This is part of the process of celebrating women and raising the voices of […]

Akua Kuenyehia Foundation

$20,000 to support staffing and administrative needs of the organization and also to support its scholarship scheme for girls’ education.