We Grow Navrongo
Project Founder & Leader:
Dr. Mimi Choon-Quinones
Background and Rational: Partners for Patients NGO (PFP.NGO) is serving internationally, with engagements in all 55 African countries through our Pan African Parliament partnership. In Ghana, we have engagements with the Ghana Armed Forces Medical Services, The 37 Military Hospital and The Osu Children’s Home.
In the second week of September 2023, a team from PFP.NGO, led by its founder and chairman visited Ghana and undertook a field reconnaissance visit to Navrongo in the Kassena Nankana Municipality. During this visit, the team together with Members of the Navrongo Team drawn largely from Dizemtaaba held meetings with Ghana Education Directorate, Navrongo Traditional Council Leaders, School Authorities, teachers and pupils in order to understand the prevailing challenges facing teaching and learning in specific reference to Basic Education.
The outcome of the field visit necessitated the PFP.NGO initiative to build partnership for the design and design and launch of series of intervention that will contribute to building a healthy, education and resilient livelihoods of the population in the Navrongo area.
Project Aim: The project’s overall objective is to enhance the quality of life in the Navrongo and its adjoining communities by uplifting the socio-economic condition of the indigenes. It is foreseen that the implementation of the actions earmarked under this Support Project will contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations with a specific focus on:
Objective:
⦁ Strengthen families and communities to cope with the situation of vulnerability.
⦁ To create a better life and brighter future for the children.
⦁ Encourage community members to form Self Help Groups for Poverty alleviation.
⦁ Socio-economic empowerment.
⦁ Ensure secure and equal access to financial knowledge and services.
⦁ Implement resilient agricultural practices in an effort to adapt to climate change.
⦁ Increase agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, especially women and vulnerable people.
⦁ Ensure all people have access to nutritious and sufficient food all year round.
⦁ Increase investment in rural infrastructure, agricultural research, and technological development.
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