Our Mandates

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Our Mandates

VOWACGhana is impacting lives through the following programmes;

Education and care

  • Promote inclusive and accessible education for all.
  • Offer rehabilitation and counselling services.
  • Identify Hidden children, women and caregivers of children with disabilities.
  • Enrol children and women with disablities and caregivers in schools and apprenticeship.
  • Provide Scholarship for Schooling and Apprenticeship.
  • Provide Assistive Devices to children and women with disabilities.
  • Home the Homeless children and women with disability.

Economic Empowerment

  • Promote apprenticeship and other trainings.
  • Promote business manggement skills.
  • Create marketing channels and opportunites
  • Advocate for business friendly environment.
  • Promote business initiative of women and caregivers of children with disabilities.

Mentorship (catch to grow)

  • Form clubs and societies for children and young girls with disabilities
  •  Link mentees to mentors
  •  Organise mentorship events Form clubs and societies for children and young girls with disabilities
  •  Link mentees to mentors
  • Organise mentorship events

Advocacy and Research

  • Advocate for inclusive legislations, policies and programmes for women
    and children with disabilities and caregivers of children with disabilities.
  • Advocate for the fullest enjoyment of the fundamental human rights and
    opportunities of women and children with disabilities and their caregivers
    in Ghana.
  • Influence government policies, programmes and legislations.
  • Speak publicly on all issues affecting women and children with
    disabilities and caregivers in Ghana and beyond.
  • Celebrate international or national events of interest to women and
    children with disabilities and caregivers.
  • Conduct Research to gather evidence for advocacy.
  • Enhance knowledge of the public on disability.

Health and Wellbeing

  • Promote inclusive health care and other services.
  • Promote Inclusive sexual and reproductive right and services.
  • Promote menstrual, good nutrition and personal hygiene among children and women with disabilities and their caregivers.
  • Support poorper children, women and caregivers of children with disabilities meet their medical bills.
  • Provide Scholarships for apprenticeship and schooling.
  • Promote the prevention of disability.

Membership

  •  Organisations or institutions of women or children with disabilities.

  • Patrons and founding members.

  • People without disabilities both men and women who are interested
    and willing to support to achieve our vision. 

  • Honorary members

  • Women with disabilities in Ghana regardless of the disability type.

  • Every child with disability in Ghana regardless of disability type.

  • Parents or caregivers of children with disabilities.

Restorations

  • Offer counselling services.
  • Link children, women and their caregivers to available services and
    opportunities.
  • Develop and organise motivational programmes.
  • Create peer learning and information sharing opportunities.