The Ghana Federation of the Disabled (GFD), is organizing series of stakeholder meetings, aimed at pressuring government to speed up the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (UNCRPD). Since the ratification of the UNCRPD in August 2012, the Federation said Ghana was yet to initiate actions for the […]

A Japanese woman, Ms Midori Tatsuki, on Tuesday donated medical equipment valued at $5,000.00 to the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to help in the improvement of emergency healthcare services in the country. The equipment includes an AED Heart Start Machine with infant key, which helps in reviving unconscious patients, especially those with cardiac arrest or […]

The European Union has announced a €600,000 financial support to Ghana to fight cholera outbreaks in the wake of the June 3 flood which wreaked havoc in Accra. About 152 lives were lost two weeks ago in a fire and flood disaster that rocked Accra. Health officials fear there could be cholera outbreak on a […]

Ghana and France have signed an agreement in Accra to help promote and facilitate an exchange programme in the education of Ghanaian students in France and French students in Ghana. Formerly, it was difficult for Ghanaian or French students to further their education in either country with certificates from their Universities. With this agreement, students […]

The United States Government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and in collaboration with the Ghana Ministry of Education (MOE) and the Ghana Education Service (GES), are set to launch the Partnership for Education: Learning activity. Learning will reach over 2 million children in Ghana through a broad- based, national project that […]

President John Dramani Mahama says Ghana will take advantage of the renewal of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) in September this year to increase its exports to the United States of America ( USA). Ghana has been exporting a number of traditional and non-traditional products to the US under AGOA but suggestions are […]

The First Baptist Church, the Wilmington Baptist Assembly of the United States of America, has presented a Gh¢ 24,000.00 water system to the Mpakadan Community, as a gift to commemorate its 200th anniversary. Mpakadan is in the Asuogyaman District of the Eastern Region, in the vicinity of the Volta Lake, about 15 minutes’ drive off […]

A new International Labour Organization (ILO) report has found about 168 million children are engaged in child labour around the world. The report shows the need for coherent policies to tackle child labour and the lack of decent jobs for the youth. The ILO report, prepared for the World Day against Child Labour, said around […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for increased and regular blood donations from voluntary unpaid donors in order to save millions of lives globally each year. In a statement ahead of World Blood Donor Day on June 14, the WHO said transfusion of blood and blood products help patients suffering from life-threatening conditions to […]