Links and Partners

Partners in multiple projects

The Bolgatanga, Talensi Nabdam and Bawku West District Assemblies

JugendPartnerschaft Ghana e.V. (Freiburg, Germany)

JPG is the European partner organisation of YHFG. It was founded in 2005 by friends of the foundation to allow for continuous support of the activities and a platform for collaboration between people in Europe and the YHFG.
http://www.jugendghana.de

Partners in Youth Work and Health Education Projects

Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg (Stuttgart, Germany)

Support Group of the Swiss Tropical Institute (Basel, Switzerland)

The Support Group's aim is to offer assistance to people in poor countries - in particular in the sense of helping people to help themselves and preferably in places where the Institute is active and a local supervision possible. The support group supported the virgin project of YHFG and made the foundation of the youth work possible.
http://www.sti.ch/about-us/support-group.html

Ontmoet Afrika (Alkmaar, The Netherlands)

Ontmoet Afrika (Meet Africa) is a volunteer organisation with the aim to stimulate and facilitate contact, knowledge, understanding, and friendship between people of different cultural backgrounds so that mutual misunderstanding, prejudice and discrimination can be cut across. Since October 2007, Ontmoet Africa volunteers helped to establish regular health education seminars for Harvest Clubs.
http://www.ontmoetafrika.nl

Ghana Education Services (Accra, Ghana)

Junior Achievement

JA programs help prepare young people for the real world by showing them how to generate wealth and effectively manage it, how to create jobs which make their communities more robust, and how to apply entrepreneurial thinking to the workplace.
Students put these lessons into action, and learn the value of contributing to their communities.

YHFG and JA have started a collaboration in march 2009, focussing on the entrepreneurial aspect of the SKILL project. http://www.ja.org

Weltweite Initiative für soziales Engagement e.V. (Heppenheim, Germany)

WISE, founded in 2002, is an officially recognized german organisation for voluntary services abroad. They aim to contribute to international understanding by supporting and cooperating with exemplary social projects all over the world. WISE is working for social and developmental projects on the basis of freedom and responsability and is open to all young people, irrespectively of their nationality, political conviction, age, religion or income, who are willing to support their approacch. The three pillars of WISE engagement are the human being, education and creativity. YHFG and JPG are commencing a collaboration with WISE in 2009. The first WISE volunteers will be arriving in Bolgatanga to work mainly in the SKILL centre for about 13 months presumably in august 2009. We are looking forward to an interesting collaboration
http://www.weltweite-initiative.de

Brave Aurora (Linz, Austria)

http://www.braveaurora.com/

Partners in Rural Development Projects

Il Fuoco del Futuro (Siena, Italy)

http://www.ilfuocodelfuturo.it

Effata eine Welt Kreis e.V. (Heidelberg, Germany)

Effata Eine-Welt-Kreis e.V. is a german regional fair-trade organisation, that was founded in 1997. In addition to operating two fair trade shops, effata supports severrl projects in countries of the south and it is engaged in educational activities on development politics.
Effata supported the Sunuga Project in particular in the early phase of the project in the construction of the facilites and purchasing of a peanut mill. In 2007, effata contributed to the health insurance fees for the EPEFA farmers.
Together with effata, we still dream about selling fair-trade EPEFA peanuts in their shop, one day. However, this plan is currently subjected to international food safety and tax regulations.
http://www.effata.de