CARE NET GHANA (CNG) is local non profit organisation dedicated to delivering efficient and sustainable programs that promote rights and improve the living condition of marginalized groups especially women and children in Ghana. Founded in 1993, it was registered in 1996 with the Registrar Generals Department as company limited by guarantee and with the Department of Social Welfare as a voluntary and charitable organisation in 1997.

CARE NET GHANA has programs in primary health care, water and sanitation, basic education for vulnerable children, education and training for development, child rights, youth development and women empowerment. Other programs include HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, Palliative care for people living with HIV/AIDS and Research.

CARE NET uses an integrated approach in its project implementation to address various issues as they affect women and children. CARE NET specifically targets women and children as beneficiaries of its programs, as they are often marginalized populations within Ghanaian communities.

To achieve our objective CARE NET engages in short, medium and long-term development work, development education and advocacy.

CARE NET’S work is achieved through: Partnership with target groups and communities in a manner that emphasizes their human and cultural dignity and again partnership with other organisations- community based, NGOs and Government Agencies. Participation in decision-making leading to sustained commitment to achieving specific program objectives.

THE VUCE FUND

CARE NET GHANA has set up a VULNERABLE CHILDREN’S EDUCATION FUND (VUCE FUND) to support the education of trafficked and other marginalized children in six fishing communities in the Volta Region.

The children the fund will support are those who have been taken away (trafficked) from their villages or sold out or taken to other villages to work as fishing hands, sand wieners, domestic servitude, weavers and farm hands for meager income usually less than a one dollar a day and have been denied access to any form of education and health care.

The monies accruing from this fund will be used to provide scholarships, school uniforms, meals, text books, medical care and recreational materials for the children to enable them access basic education and also provide medical care through a mobile clinic services. A rehabilitation centre will be established to provide counseling and psycho-social support to the children. Where necessary, school buildings will be constructed in the target communities in addition to a mobile school.

GET INVOLVED

• Spread the word about the VUCE Fund to everyone you know - friends, family and co-workers.
• Introduce CARE NET to a foundation
• Donate to the VUCE Fund
• Volunteer with Care Net Ghana