On March 12th, JPG held their quarterly meeting. The meeting was held online. We discussed our tasks for 2021. The coming months we will be working on updating the website with our Ghanaian colleagues from YHFG. For instance, YHFG started Harvest Youth (HAY) Movement. The rationale for the formation of…
News from Youth Harvest Foundation Ghana (YHFG) Monday March 8th was International Women Day. Behind the scenes and in the spotlights, women and men across Ghana choose to challenge gender bias and inequality. They are forging an inclusive Ghana. In the light of International Women’s Day, we celebrate some of…
On November 27th, JPG held their 2020 annual members assembly. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the meeting was held online. We were excited to see that some of the founding members used the opportunity of an online meeting to join in and actively contribute to JPG. It was great to…
News from YHFG. The closure of schools due to the corona pandemic has led to increase in risky behaviors, including influence of peers and exploitation. Our Ambassadors are thereby engaging 20 Adolescent clubs in two districts in the Upper East Region with reproductive health education lessons and games. They are…
Buyina – The same Where starts the difference? Where ends the same? Where starts the comparison? Where does it end? Where starts the inequaliy? Where does it end? Where start the equal rights? Where do they end? Where do we want to be more similar? Where do we want to…
This post is about the experiences of Anne in Bolgatanga. She is from the Netherlands, and was a volunteer in 2018 in Bolgatanga. She is a JPG member since 2019. “I came to Ghana to do volunteering work at the physiotherapy department in a hospital. I really enjoyed my stay,…
This year, the annual meeting took place in Berlin the 11th of May. We had a whole Saturday to meet up with JPG members, to evaluate projects and to discuss new projects. We were delighted that dr. John Krugu, founding director, temporarily staying and working in the Netherlands, was able to…
Child marriage compromises the development of girls and puts boys in an early adulthood position denying them their childhood. This problem is gradually becoming less common in Ghana. Presently, the percentage of women aged 20-24 years who got married before the age of 18 years stands at 19% nationally as…
The Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) unit of Youth Harvest Foundation Ghana (YHFG) marks the 2019 Menstrual Hygiene Day (MHD) by educating and building the confidence of out-of-school girls to speak against the stigmatization of menstruating girls. Sanitary pads will be gifted to them to encourage the practice of…
Happy International Women’s Day! Today is International Women’s Day. On this special day, Youth Harvest Foundation Ghana (YHFG) in Bolgatanga interacted with some of its programme beneficiaries (women groups) in Bongo district, encouraging them to continue pushing the agenda of fighting for women’s rights in their communities and beyond. The…
