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Health Education
Technology is transforming how health care is delivered in Africa, giving more people in remote areas there and around the world access to better care. Likewise, easier access to data helps both doctors and policymakers make better-informed decisions abouthow  to continue to improve the system. Even with these strides, however, the continent’s health care system faces big challenges. Africa, specifically Ghana, is confronting an increased demand beyond the treatment of AIDS, malaria, and other communicable diseases to address the no communicable ones such as hypertension, diabetes and among others which are growing as the middle class increases and lack of proper education and lifestyle modification with regards to nutrition and
health.

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Clinical and HIV/AIDS Treatment
Providing intensive clinical services targeting people at their homes and vantage areas with the sole aim of bringing health care at their doorstep, organizing health screening programs at communities where access to primary health is a challenge. FOHA’s overwhelming achievement in community outreach programmes saves a millions of lives across the region and beyond, reducing challenge of people to access proper health, and provides guidance and behavior change to the vulnerable. FOHA’s mission is in line with the Ghana AIDS commission strategic plan on the 90-90-90 fast track targets aimed at ensuring that 90% of Persons Living with HIV know their HIV status, 90% of Persons Living with HIV who know their HIV status are placed on sustained treatment, and 90% of Persons Living with HIV on sustained treatment achieve viral

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Capacity, Social Protection And Livelihood Development
The majority of Ghanaians fall in the poverty level, considering the definition of the United Nations Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights, 2001. According to statistics, about 51% of Ghana's poor population can mostly be found in the rural areas, and so far, the poorest region in the country are the Upper West, Upper East and North. In a research conducted by the Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis (CFSVA), it was discovered that in Ghana, solely on the basis of household food consumption, 5% of the population of 1.2 million people have limited access to sufficient and nutritious food for an active and healthy life. Up to 1.5 million people vulnerable to food insecurity live in the rural areas and urban areas of the seven remaining regions, with the largest percentage in the Brong-Ahafo Region. Deprived of effective safety nets and social protection systems, poor and food insecure people can neither invest in more sustainable agricultural practices nor even protect such modest resources as they have. FOHA works in the area of agriculture training to group farmers, communities and small and the vulnerable and food insecure groups, works with partners to offer logistics and inputs, build on multiple benefit potentials delivered by improved training and community participation activities geared towards improving yields and to meet market standards and safeguard resources to meet future needs. FOHA’s mandate on gender equality and social protection involves Strengthen participation and equal representation of women, scheduled tribes, and marginal cultivators in the communities. Work with partners and public agencies to great and strengthen market linkages and accessible to rural farmers and organize refresher training for caterers providing school feeding with the aim of making it more nutritious.

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Nutrition
Good nutrition is widely recognized to be an essential element in the ability to lead a healthy and productive life. Yet poor nutrition remains a critical global problem: Each year, more children die as a result of under nutrition than of AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. Good nutrition is widely recognized to be an essential element in the ability to lead a healthy and productive life. Yet poor nutrition remains a critical global problem: Each year, more children die as a result of under nutrition than of AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. The Ghana demographic health survey, 2014 estimates stunting 19% among children in Ghana, and the cost of hunger report indicates 24% of all child mortality cases in Ghana are associated with under nutrition and the implication is that, child mortality associated with under nutrition has reduced Ghana’s workforce by 7.3%. The report further indicates that, the annual cost associated with child under nutrition is estimated at GHS 4.6 billion equivalent to 6.4% GDP. The effects of malnutrition are devastating and far reaching. It not only causes loss of life, but also weakens immune systems and increases risk of disease. It lowers the success rate in education and employment, ultimately leading to the loss of productivity and well-being of communities and nations. It is both a result and driver of poverty and inequality. Nutrition has generally made a lot of progress as evident in the 2014 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey, but the gains have been uneven, with increasing geographic disparities. In order to address these challenges the focus would be to increase coverage of high-impact nutrition specific interventions that ensure optimal nutrition of Ghanaians throughout their lifecycle. Special reference will be made to maternal health and child survival as well as collaboration with relevant sectors to ensure high coverage of nutrition-sensitive interventions to address the underlying causes of malnutrition. FOHA, in the brong ahafo region with key stakeholders partnership GHS embarks on nutrition sensitive education programs for communities in the region, radio campaigns on early breastfeeding which has recorded a marginal decrease from 127% to 98% from 2013 to 2014, according to the GDHS 2014. Among FOHA’s program include capacity building for health nurses in the area of nutrition screening and home care management that aims to improve the nutritional status of the vulnerable. Community group for breastfeeding in action for FOHA is currently in place to create awareness and understanding for the need to exclusively breastfeed for the first six months and wider approach to bridge the gap for under nutrition especially to improve on the first 100,000 days of life.

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Research And Community Development
Research and community development plays a key role in ending global challenges in health putting vulnerable people into perspective that will enhance access to health and reduce risk related factors associated with health implications. FOHA works in the in the field of community needs assessment, engages in community participatory activities that will understand their own problem, find solutions, and build a peaceful and healthy community. Work with communities to improve on social and economic interventions, develop partnerships to support community development projects, which have a more holistic approach and research related to improve on health and wellness of the community.

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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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By this perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother have need, and shuts up his heart of compassion from him, how dwells the LOVE of God in him? 1 John 3:16–17