Projects - IMDID Ghana

Category: Projects

May 4, 2023

Youth Entrepreneurial Programs

Youth Entrepreneurial Projects

We support active youth, creativity, art, entrepreneurship and culture for employment. The primary purpose is to decrease youth unemployment; which is the proportion of the labour force ages 15-35 who are unemployed and actively pursuing work. In 2021, the juvenile unemployment rate in Ghana was 9.59%, an increase of 0.1% from 2020.

At IMDID Ghana, we work towards supporting underserved young people to turn their ideas into successful businesses, providing training, creating jobs and strengthening communities. The SDG target 4.4 aims to substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment and decent jobs and entrepreneurship.

Vocational Training Projects – for school dropouts living in rural communities and single mothers mostly in the coastal areas of Ghana.
Skill Acquisition Projects – for undergraduates and university leavers who require practical entrepreneurial skills that would enable them to venture into small scale business.
World Youth Skills Day (Campaign)

Other goals that support this objective include the SDG 9 – Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, followed by SDG 11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities, and SDG 8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth.

Only one per cent of the student population below the age of 25 in Ghana are enrolled in Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET). Our work as a non-profit organisation in Ghana is to champion the Vocational Education and Training (VET), believing that it provides learners with essential skills enhancing their employability, supporting their personal development and encouraging active citizenship.

Youth Business Innovation Program 2023

Fetteh Kakraba Visit

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Advocacy Programs

Advocacy Programs

In Ghana, approximately 94% of children between the ages of one and fourteen are said to have experienced one form of gender-based violence (MoGCSP 2018). Over 48% of Ghanaian women and girls have been sexually abused. Globally, the situation is similarly dire.

Since our 2014 inception as a non-profit social enterprise, we have supported girls’ education and lifted families out of dire situations through meaningful empowerment events and advocacy programs. In 2016, we began to prioritise females. That we engaged over two thousand females in Ghana’s coastal regions. Their courage and determination are a powerful appeal for a day when females will no longer be marginalised by poverty, discrimination, violence, or culture. Instead, they are empowered.

One simple and meaningful way is by donating to, volunteering for, and sharing these inspiring girl empowerment organisations with a girl in your life. Our effort in supporting girls’ education and working towards ensuring peace, advocating against child labour and promoting youth civic involvement creates positive change in the world.

Daughter You Can Make It (DYCMI Summit)
International Women’s Day
International Day of Peace
International Youth Day
World Day Against Child Labour

Our incredible social and empowering gatherings for girls and females in Ghana has inspired dreams among families and supported them to become the change they seek.

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Health Projects

Our organisation strives to improve health care for those living in hard to reach communities. Malaria killed over 21,000 individuals in 2019. Despite the introduction of preventive measures and remedies, the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases has increased in the country. As of 2020, there were 350,000 HIV-positive individuals, compared to 340,000 confirmed cases in the previous year. The communicable diseases prevalent in Ghana are malaria, HIV/AIDs, diarrhoea and tuberculosis while increasing incidence of non-communicable diseases include cancers, cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, chronic respiratory disease and others.

Health care is very variable throughout Ghana. Urban centres are well served, and contain most hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies in the country. Rural areas often have no modern health care and that’s where we channel our efforts and social cause. Patients in these areas either rely on traditional African medicine, or travel great distances for health care of which some of them lose their lives enroute. Our health care projects and programs increase awareness and provide health support to rural citizens in the country.

Health Advocacy Program
Donation of Health Supplies
Mental Health Campaign
Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation Campaign
World Health Day
Breast Cancer Awareness Month

IMDID Ghana’s goal is to support the achievement of SDG 3, which seeks to prevent unnecessary suffering from preventable diseases and premature mortality, by focusing on key targets that improve the health of Ghana’s population as a whole. Priority areas include regions with the highest disease burden and populations and regions that have been neglected in the country.

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Educational Projects

Educational Projects

One out of every five youths and adolescents worldwide are not in school. Youth ages 15–17 are four times more likely to be out of school than children ages 6–11, and the number of out-of-school children in Ghana increased by 229,756 (+648.44 percent) in 2020 alone. According to estimates, approximately fifty percent of unschooled children in Africa reside in conflict zones. Globally, 130 million primary and secondary school-aged women and girls are not in school. In a study conducted with a sample of 100 countries, economic development increases by 0.3% for every 1% increase in the proportion of females who complete 12 years of education. This would result in an annual revenue increase of $15 trillion on a global scope.

In 2013, Ghana’s primary education dropout rate was 16.3%. Though Ghana’s primary education dropout rate has fluctuated significantly in recent years, it has tended to rise from 1973 to 2013, peaking at 16.3% in 2013.

As a volunteer-run nonprofit organisation with several projects geared towards the development of rural communities, we are dedicated to creating socio-economic change in Ghana’s coastal areas through education of underprivileged children. IMDID Ghana has designed six key programs to address a number of issues that present barriers to education. This includes:

Back to School Initiative
Project HMC (Help Mentor Children)
Community Library Project
The SDG Roadshow
International Day of Education (Durbar & Campaign)
International Day of Street Children (Durbar & Campaign)

We prioritise education for children, particularly those from birth to age 18 who are most vulnerable. Volunteers frequently work in the disciplines of child development, education, and other aspects of the education sector as part of the organisation’s global network of benefactors and partners. These liaisons collect information on childhood education practices and policies and share it with IMDID Ghana to aid in program development and promote intercultural understanding. IMDID Ghana also exists to promote Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4), which focuses on education and seeks to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote learning opportunities for all.”