Youth Harvest Foundation Ghana
Women are key contributors to the growth and development of our societies, as producers of food, caretakers of children, the elderly, entrepreneurs and employees in businesses. Despite the contributions to family and society, women remain disproportionately affected by poverty, discrimination and exploitation. They have limited access to credit, healthcare and education. However, evidence shows that…
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We define a Youth-led Organisation to mean one that is “predominantly governed and staffed by young people”. From our experience, Youth-led organisations have proven to be of immense benefit for both young people participating and the wider community of young people. As youth-led, the YHFG continue to provide youth the opportunity to take up leadership…
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As some of you might be aware, in late July 2018, John Krugu will leave the YHFG to take up a one-year post-doc assignment in Amsterdam. Accordingly, we are happy to share the news that Ms Priscilla Nyaaba has taken over as the acting Executive Director of the Youth Harvest Foundation Ghana (YHFG). The Board…
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At the 2018 Girls Not Brides 2nd Global Meeting in Kuala Lumpur, YHFG programme manager, Abigail Adumolga joined a panel of experts to discuss Gender Transformative programming in ending child marriage. Abigail shared how the YHFG is using its flagship programme titled Friendship, Love And Sexual Health (FLASH) to address child marriage in local communities…
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With support from JugendParnerchaft Ghana, the 2018 Girls Remedial School home-coming event was successfully held at the YHFG’s Youth Centre in Yikene, Bolgatanga. The Girls Remedial School is the YHFG’s flagship programme that provides support to girls who failed some key subjects in the Senior High School certificate examinations to re-write the exams and progress…
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The YHFG, in collaboration with Christian Aid Ghana and SNV, is conducting financial literacy education for its partner farmer-based organisations in the Upper East region. The sensitization of financial literacy has led to 1,352 beneficiaries opening Bank Accounts with the Fidelity Bank for the first time. In their own words, the farmers expressed surprise that…
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Yesterday, the Evidence to Action team were at Unicef Ghana to present the project to a cross-sectional team of experts and to seek their technical support for a successful implementation of the project. The aim was also to get the Unicef staff perspectives on the status of the implementation of the national guidelines on age-appropriate…
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Mr Tirso Dos Santos, UN Programme Specialist and Country Representative for UNESCO Ghana has commended the YHFG and its international partner, RFSU for introducing a project that will contribute to ensuring the implementation of the national guidelines on age-appropriate Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE). The UN Programme Specialist made these remarks last week when the YHFG…
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Mrs Esi Ayenba Inkoom, the National Coordinator of the School Health Education Programme (SHEP) of Ghana Education Service (GES) has commended the YHFG and its international partner, RFSU for conceptualizing and introducing a project that will contribute to ensuring the implementation of the national guidelines on age-appropriate Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE). The national coordinator of…
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The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Professor Philip Alston, is undertaking a human rights fact-finding visit to Ghana from 9 – 18 April 2018 to assess government efforts to eradicate poverty through the lens of international human rights law. As part of his 10-day visit, the Special Rapporteur visited the…
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