Challenging Heights calls on Ghana Police to deliver on their commitment to stop children being trafficked across Ghana, with the upcoming school vacation known to be the season when many children are taken into forced labour on Lake Volta. Exactly one year ago this week the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) conducted a raid along Accra-Kumasi road in […]
All 55 children currently being cared for at the Challenging Heights Hovde House were taken on a day-long excursion to their nation’s capital. Staff accompanied the boys and girls, who had not too long ago, been working in dangerous conditions as slave labour on Lake Volta. The group first made their way to the Kotoka […]
“We are the money watchmen! The ‘money security act.’” Gilbert Oduroh says he and his colleague, Cecilia Donkoh, take care of figures. He’s a numbers guy. She loves the problem solving. The duo makes up the Challenging Heights Finance Department, writing budgets, preparing payment vouchers and reporting back to our esteemed donors. Cecilia says she […]
“It’s a great feeling ‘cause you get the chance to transform someone who has never been to school before, and you see such a child writing his or her name, it’s amazing.” The life of a social worker at the Challenging Heights Hovde House Rehabilitation Shelter is more than checking in on a child every […]
Hair dresser, tailor, concrete designer, auto mechanic, welder, carpenter and more. The oldest rescued children being rehabilitated at the Challenging Heights Hovde House were taken on a bus-tour style “Career Day,” gaining crucial exposure to many different apprenticeship opportunities in the area. First stop was a local hairdresser in Swedru. Three girls are on the […]
As the Challenging Heights Community Stakeholder’s Manager, Mr. Mensah settles disputes between families quarrelling about who should be responsible over a child. In one case, a man impregnated a woman and she had a little boy. For years, though, the man never accepted his role as the child’s father. In Ghanaian culture, the father is […]
Sahara is the Prefect and a Fashion & Design student at our Mother and Child Recovery Center. Through this program, she is acquiring the skills needed to become a successful fashion designer after graduation. Sahara is a goal-getter—bold, confident, creative, smart, and talented. Despite the challenges she has faced, she continues to push forward, aspiring […]
“I hope that my appeal will be granted so that together we can create a country safe for all children while enabling all children to enjoy their basic rights to education and proper parental care and support.” This passionate request was made at the press conference launch of Challenging Heights-led research on Ghana’s Livelihood Empowerment […]
Research results launched in Ghana today have highlighted how the Government’s Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme can be optimized. The study shows that LEAP has positive effects regarding both material and non-material aspect of well-being and care for children. It further shows that these advantages can be increased if implementation challenges such as delay […]
Before heating the coals and smoking fish to sell at market, participants of the Challenging Heights Livelihoods Programme started from the ground up. They pounded bricks and smoothed edges to construct smoking ovens from a mud mixture made from termite mounds. The hard work came with wide smiles. This is the work they women grew […]
