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WOM & St. Paul e.V Documentary Video: Years of Impacting lives in Ghana
Miss Gertrude Schauber, who has since passed away, visited her daughter Almuth Schauber, who was serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer...
WOM Donor Spotlight (on Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc.): Food Distribution
WOM on the 26th of January 2024 distributed a food package worth over Fifteen Thousand Ghana Cedis to twenty (20)...
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According to the 2021 population census conducted in Ghana, eighty-seven percent (87%) of the widowed population is female. These widows find themselves in seventy-five (75) ethnic groups in Ghana that discriminate against them in one way or another. The Upper East Region is estimated to have 61,725 widows and ranks sixth out of the sixteen (16) regions of Ghana in terms of widowed population. Data from the Ghana National Household registry in 2018 shows that seventy-five percent (75%) of widows in the Upper East region are either poor or extremely poor, while sixty-one percent (61%) of employable widows are unemployed.
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WOM Donor Spotlight (on Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc.): Food Distribution
WOM on the 26th of January 2024 distributed a food package worth over Fifteen Thousand Ghana Cedis to twenty (20)...
Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. Donates to WOM’s Educational & Harmattan Food Breeze Programs
The Widows and Orphans Movement (WOM) has received a donation of Twenty-Five Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety-Five Ghana Cedis Thirty...
WOM & KGL Foundation Black Soap-Making Training in UER
Black Soap from Shea butter and Baobab Potash is the introduction to the soap-making industry. The Widows and Orphans Movement...
WOM-Plan International Ghana Partnership
This partnership is made possible due to funding from Global Affairs Canada. The Women’s Voice and Leadership (WVL) project targets...
WOM-Action Aid Partnership
WOM in collaboration with Action Aid Ghana continued to strengthen the capacity of women’s groups in the Talensi and Nabdam...
WOM-Wildaf-Oxfam Partnership
WOM in partnership with OXFAM and Wildaf with funding from the European Union continued to work in the Bongo and...
Video: WOM’s 2022 16-Days of Activism Public Sensitization Exercise
25th November to 10th December each year, the United Nations observes 16 Days of Activities against sexual and gender-based violence....
Waakii Women Gets Rice Mill Courtesy Stitching Zaare & Machinery By KGL Foundation
The construction of the processing facilities for the Anateem Shea butter processing centre and the Wakii rice processing facilities was...
Promoting Opportunities for Micro Enterprises Programmes
Currently, WOM runs five Promoting Opportunities for Micro-enterprises (PROMIC) programmes in the upper East Region with funding and technical support...
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Climate Change
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