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Home Archive by category "News from YHFG"

Category: News from YHFG

International Women’s Day: Choose to challenge

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…

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Jolien van der Geugten 10/03/2021 01/05/2024JPG Blog, News from YHFG, Uncategorized

Annual meeting JPG: November 27th 2020

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…

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Jolien van der Geugten 29/11/2020 01/05/2024JPG Blog, News from YHFG

YHFG launches adolescent reproductive health programme

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…

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Jolien van der Geugten 11/11/2020 01/05/2024JPG Blog, News from YHFG, Uncategorized

YHFG News: Child marriage

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…

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Jolien van der Geugten 30/05/2019 01/05/2024News from YHFG

YHFG News: Menstrual Hygiene Day 2019

  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…

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Jolien van der Geugten 28/05/2019 01/05/2024News from YHFG

Happy International Women’s Day!

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…

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Jolien van der Geugten 08/03/2019 01/05/2024JPG Blog, News from YHFG

World Toilet Day

World Toilet Day on November 19th is an official day to inspire action to tackle the global sanitation crisis and to promote the Sustainable Development Goal 6 to ensure that everyone has a safe toilet and that no-one practices open defecation by 2030 (read more). One in five Ghanaians have…

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Jolien van der Geugten 19/11/2018 01/05/2024JPG Blog, News from YHFG

Women’s economic empowerment is Fundamental

News from Youth Harvest Foundation Ghana: Women are key contributors to the growth and development of our societies, as producers of food, caretakers of children, the elderly, entrepreneurs and employees in businesses. Despite the contributions to family and society, women remain disproportionately affected by poverty, discrimination and exploitation. They have…

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Jolien van der Geugten 18/10/2018 01/05/2024News from YHFG

Meet the new YHFG acting Executive Director

We are happy to share the news that Ms Priscilla Nyaaba has taken over as the acting Executive Director of the Youth Harvest Foundation Ghana (YHFG). As some of you might be aware, in late July 2018, John Krugu left the YHFG to take up a one-year post-doc assignment in…

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Jolien van der Geugten 15/08/2018 01/05/2024News from YHFG

YHFG has a new Board of Trustees

YHFG has a new board of trustees. “YHFG defines a Youth-led Organisation to mean one that is “predominantly governed and staffed by young people”. From our experience, Youth-led organisations have proven to be of immense benefit for both young people participating and the wider community of young people. As youth-led,…

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Jolien van der Geugten 01/08/2018 01/05/2024News from YHFG
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