Ghanaman Trust provided funds to Katchito Community Development Centre, a local community based NGO in Buipe in the Northern Region for the purchase of a set of cassava grater machine for the processing of gari and cassava dough by the women in the area. The aim is to improve the living conditions of local communities through the creative and organized energies of the people. The project is also to provide entrepreneurial training to the women who are engaged in gari and cassava dough processing.

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A support from the Trust has been provided to the Afaataba Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society in the Bawku West for the facilitation of a milling house for shea butter oil extraction. The group is made up of women engaged in activities such as dry season gardening, shea butter extraction, processing of dawadawa towards improving the living conditions of the vulnerable and the disadvantaged group in the society. The mill has made it possible for the women to be engaged in income generating activities thereby reducing poverty.

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The Trust provided an amount of GHS 20,000.00 to the Single Mothers Association based in Daborin in the Upper East Region of Ghana for the production and processing of local rice. Single Mothers Association is a registered NGO with specialty in working with rural women in alleviating their under-privileged status. The association began in 1995 as a small group of independent single women who in their free time would come together to discuss and resolve livelihood issues. Through its income generating activities, SMA gives its member’s economic empowerment, more independence and heightened decision making capacity. With the help of the Trust, the women have also been able to rehabilitate the production centre.

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With support from the Trust, 30 graduates of Corban Foundation, a vocational institute based in Tema have been provided with a start-up capital to help them procure items for their businesses. The interest of the Foundation lies in bringing up of young ladies from deprived communities to learn at a minimum cost. This is to equip them to set up their own enterprises and prepare them well enough to fit into established places. The training involves catering, hairdressing, dress-making, batik making and screen printing. Students are drawn from Ashiaman, Afienya ,Dowenya, Tema New Town and surrounding areas.

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Women in the northern part of Ghana are often marginalized and suffer socio-economic injustices. In view of this, the Centre for Initiative against Human Trafficking (CIAT) came up with the idea of building the capacities and skill sets of 40 women from Gbulahigu, Tinbung, Gbanjonla and Gonlinga in the Northern Region of Ghana with skills in organic vegetable cultivation, an intervention that will ultimately economically empower each of them. Ghanaman Trust funded the project with the provision of water pumping machines, watering cans, hoes, cutlasses and other needed equipment. The project was commissioned in 2012.

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Volta Region Association of Beekeepers (VORAB), through the Edem Garden Training Centre, has trained 10 women beekeepers for one year (or two production seasons), equipped and integrated them into the Biakoye District Beekeepers Association with support from Ghanaman Trust Fund. The project also provided 10 old members of the association with beehives. The project was commissioned in 2012.

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The programme located in the Bongo district of the Upper East Region, is intended to improve food security and generate income for the women in the community. It involves distributing goats and bowls of cereals to the local women to rare and grow.

After the goats have reproduced and the crops harvested, the women will give back a number of kids and bowls of cereals to the association with will be pass on to other beneficiaries.  This revolving programme will therefore ensure that a large number of women are empowered economically.

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