Who We Are

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The future economic growth of the country may only be assured if the health sector is accorded the utmost priority it deserves in the developmental agenda of Ghana. This entails the placing of emphasis on measures and program to prevent disease through education, recreation and sanitation. Properly trained manpower and logistics must also be marshaled and utilized to manage diseases when they unfortunately occur. The central government has over the decades invested massive resources in the health delivery system to enhance the well being of the people. It has also opened the floodgate for religious bodies, private individuals, NGOs and others to participate in the provision of both orthodox and herbal health care to the people with the common objective to improve access to quality healthcare. FOHA is a progressive, non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO), or 100% not-for-profit charity. We work to support, protect and empower vulnerable Ghanaian children, women and genral population and engage volunteers from the international community to break down cultural barriers and inherited prejudice, improve awareness of developmental issues & approaches, and offer guidance that fosters responsible global citizenship.

We are Ghanaian-based - registered and overseen by the Ghana registry department, core member of Coalition of health NGOs in Ghana, and where we are certified by the Ghanaian Department of Social Welfare to undertake humanitarian & developmental works nation-wide. Our charity promotes and undertakes collaborative, ethical, international development projects, focused in the main on reducing poverty and improving access to health and education for underprivileged children. Through strategic alliances with the local and international communities, like-minded individuals & organizations, and educational & academic institutes, we build bridges, foster empathy & understanding, and - most importantly - promote the sharing of knowledge & resources that allow local people to take ownership of change. All our projects & programs are specifically designed to complement in word and spirit the aims and objectives of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2015; the framework agreed by the international community to identify and help address the most critical humanitarian challenges facing mankind today.

Our Board of Directors have extensive backgrounds in education, social work, family support services, and the management and administration of charities. Our team manage and administrate our organization, focusing on strategy, fund-raising and policy, ensuring our practice and approaches meet the highest National and international standards of accountability, transparency and ethical best-practice. As well as guiding and having ultimate oversight of the organization’s global activities, our team also provide an effective presence for our partners, including the range of schools and CSOs. We are engaged in formal partnership with wide range of charity organizations and national actors. The 'Partner' describes the collaborative approach at the center of our model. Our focus on collaborative and strategic partnerships builds on our belief that the challenges the world faces today require comprehensive, holistic, cooperative responses. No person or organization can effect sufficient change alone. So by harnessing the knowledge and skills that our international volunteers, academic experts, partner organizations and local and international community members provide, and by intelligently identifying and making the most efficient use of the variety of resources these different parties can offer, Partner West Africa seeks to design robust and fully inclusive, sustainable solutions to local problems. For that reason, Partner FOHA, embodies the values inherent in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal No.17: the 'revitalization of global partnerships for international development'.

For more information about our organization, the work we do, or how you can get involved, please browse the rest of our Website, follow us through the social media links at the top of OUR page, or get in contact with a member of our team.

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OUR VISION

SAVING LIVES AND CHANGING SOCIETY

OUR MISSION

THE MISSION OF FOHA IS TO CREATE AND SUPPORT PROGRAMMES THAT DIRECTLY IMPROVE THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF THE MOST VULNERABLE AND THE SOCIETY AS A WHOLE

Our Core priority is to ;

1. Provide critical and special healthcare, social and economic needs of the vulnerable and needy in society
2. Celebrate the diversity of programs we offer, the staff, volunteers and donors who make it possible
3. Staying true to our core values of godliness, professionalism, commitment, accountability and transparency for our people.

We draw on the resources of the generous and on the lived experiences of the world poorest and sickest communities, and provide preferential care for our people with special needs and we strive to achieve overarching goals of alleviating poverty and hunger, and making healthcare a right to the vulnerable and poor and its possible through solidarity rather than charity alone.

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1. Accountability-To report on all activities
2. Professionalism-Technical competence
3. Leadership-The ability to know and show the way
4. Capacity development-Building of competence

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Over the past years FOHA has chalked success in many areas including the following:

1. Building of membership capacity to over two hundred
2. Mass blood donation exercise for the regional hospital sunyani in 2009
3. Mass health screening on Diabetes and Hypertension for the Yamfo community in 2009
4. Mass blood donation for Holy Family hospital in Berekum in 2010
5. HIV/AIDS campaign within the Berekum Municipality in twenty junior and senior high school
6. Three days medical outreach in the area of hypertension, diabetes, body mass index assessment for obesity, breast examination, health education in selected churches and clean-up exercise through the principal street of Dormaa Ahenkro in 2011
7. Medical outreach on diabetes, hypertension and health education with the Sunyani Traditional Council in 2011
8. A medical outreach to Mpataapo community, a suburb of Berekum where two hndred people were screened on blood pressure, diabetes, breast examination, body mass index.
9. FOHA in partnership with the Berekum Traditional council had a medical outreach on diabetes, hypertension, eye examination and general medical consult in November 2014. Three hundred people were screeened
10. In June 2015 FOHA again in partnership with the Dormaa Traditional council organized a three days medical outreach on diabetes, hypertension, body mass index, general medical consult and clean-up exercise through the principal street of Dormaa.
11. Mass health screening on diabetes, hypertension, body mass index, dentine examination, mental health assessment, nutritionist consult, and general medical examination for the Drivers and market women at Sunyani main station in 2016
12. Mass health education on diabetes, hypertension, body mass index, breast examination, nutritionist consult and general medical examination at the Chiraa station, Sunyani on the 1st of July, 2016.
13. Hepatitis B screening for the members of Champion Pentecostal ministry at Kukuom in the Brong Ahafo region.
14. Mass health screening for the Brong Ahafo Presbytery at Ayakomaso on the 22nd and 23rd April, 2017 during their annual minister’s conference on diabetes, hypertension and hepatitis B screening.
15. Mass Heath screening on blood pressure, body mass index, Nutritionist consult, general medical consult, gynaecological consult, breast examination for the women at the Sunyani central market on the 13th and 14 of May, 2017.
16. FOHA now on metro 90.5 Fm every thursday, Sunyani.

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