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Director's Message:
My name is Dr. David Mensah and I would like to extend a warm welcome to you on behalf of the Board members of our organizations. My hope is that you will find your visit to our website to be informative and thought provoking. Our story began in Ghana in the early 1970’s when a group of high school students came together with a vision for improving the quality of life of people in the deprived north of Ghana. It began in Canada in 1984 when a group of concerned Canadians caught this vision and committed themselves to be partners for change. Our journey together has been accompanied with its share of heartaches and challenges, but these pale by comparison when we consider the multitude of blessings and victories we have enjoyed. We invite you to come and take a look into the "God-inspired" journey we are taking with the people of northern Ghana.
Our approach to development and Christian witness is holistic. Our goal is to assist local communities to address their basic human needs in a
sustainable manner. In the area of health we help to provide clean water and a sanitary environment, assist in immunization programs as well as provide vaccines such as anti-snake venom, coordinate volunteers to educate in reproductive health issues, including HIV/AIDS, build modest clinics, provide medical equipment and supplies to clinics and hospitals and coordinate medical missions from outside Ghana. Our agricultural program provides training, improved seed for local crops and improved breeds of animals for local herds. In an effort to ensure food security and increase the amount of protein in the deficient diets of the people, we are raising ostriches, emu, pigs, cattle, sheep, goats and grasscutters and have embarked on an aquaculture project which in 2007 won us the award from the Ministry of Agriculture as the Best Fish Farmers in the Bole District.
Our investment of working continually with the local chiefs and leaders to prevent and solve conflicts has brought about a true sense of stability and
co-operation in the immediate areas and we have been called upon to act as mediators in other areas of both the Northern and Upper East Regions of the
country. Church planting and training lay leaders to nurture the many new believers in the area, continues to move ahead steadily.
Over thirty churches have been started since the work in Ghana began.
Shalom,
David Mensah