Our mission

SVG aims with its programs to provide social and functional networks that serve as meeting point for

those willing to participate as volunteers

institutions that are part of developing processes

and the communities which are part of these programmes

Our programmes take place in Ghana, a country that faces numerous challenges to its development: lack of or inadequate access to water and sanitation, poor infrastructures, low enrolment rates in secondary and tertiary educational institutions, high maternal/child mortality rates.

However, Ghana is also host to a large talented young population/ workforce, is rich in resources, has one of the highest GDP growth figures in all of Africa, and is destination for increasing numbers of investors/tourism.

Civil society organisations are key to fair and inclusive development processes; globalisation processes tend to target economic rather than social growth or wellbeing; this sows the path towards increasing inequalities within populations.

Sustainable development thus should tackle growth across board: all sectors of society, in both rural and urban spaces. It must do so respecting local culture, the environment, and trying to ensure future generations' needs are protected today. 

Our contribution to this is to provide or assist those already providing services in the areas of Education, Health and Water and Sanitation, using a participatory approach -working alongside local rural populations, in locally relevant projects.

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Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-Mark Twain