Heath Foundation of Ghana: About HFG

WHO WE ARE
Health Foundation of Ghana (HFG), is an issue-oriented, not-for-profit, non-governmental organisation committed to assisting Ghanaians to achieve better health through the design and implementation of creative solutions and interventions to local health problems using community based resource.

Health in its broadest sense is perhaps the most important human resource the absence of which diminishes the individual's quality of life and reduces the capacity to partake in national development.

The Foundation believes that good health is essential for the sound socio-economic development of the country and as such is committed to contributing to improving the health status of all Ghanaians.

Health Foundation of Ghana developed in August 1999 out of the Dreyfus Health Foundation Ghana office, which was founded in 1989; Health Foundation of Ghana is registered with the Registrar Generals Department of Ghana and the Department of Social Welfare as a local non-governmental not for profit organisation.

VISION
That all Ghanaians will accept full responsibility for the health status of their respective communities and will endeavour to take a proactive stance in addressing health problems via a multisectoral approach with the overall aim of improving the health and quality of life of our people.

MISSION STATEMENT
The Foundation shall advocate for improved health delivery services in the country, undertake health awareness programs to better the health of Ghanaians and provide knowledge and skills to disadvantaged communities and groups to assist them formulate innovative cost effective solutions to their health by optimizing the use of available resources.

OBJECTIVES
Among other things the Health Foundation seeks to:

		Create an awareness of the need for, and advocate for improved health delivery services.

		Train and empower front-line health professionals and others in capacity building to strengthen and develop innate and acquired skills to take action for better health.

		Encourage participants for the PSBH programme to devise and implement creative solutions and interventions to local health problems using community-based resources.

		Improve access to relevant and useful health information.
		Promote Phenytoin Research in Ghana.
		Research into causes and possible treatment of Buruli Ulcer.
		Create a network of small self-sustaining community based health projects throughout Ghana.

		Update health professionals and health workers on current medical/health information via seminars and a quarterly health digest.

	RATIONAL The Health Foundation is a direct response to a challenge in the health delivery system in Ghana. In spite of massive improvement in health delivery infrastructure in the last two decades, Ghana's health delivery system is still inadequate. Access to medical facilities is generally poor and only 50% of the population have access to medical facilities. Avoidable deaths are not uncommon. Concern for the improvement in the delivery system ranks high, not withstanding the inadequacy of public resources to meet the needs of the population. Preventive medicine as against curative medicine has been advocated. Poverty and ignorance about basic hygienic, and poor environmental sanitation has led to the resurgence of communicable diseases. HIV pandemic is a real threat to our development. There is the urgent need for private non-governmental sources to supplement government efforts if the population is to have access to improved health services. The Health Foundation is a product of this need and has over the past 13 years assisted the government in improving the health status of the communities we work in. COMMUNITY APPROACH HFG adopts a community approach to solving health problems because of its belief in each community's ability to solve its health problems with the right motivation. The Foundation therefore makes each community responsible for its own health status. The wishes of the community are always respected in the design of health programmes that affect them. Health Foundation promotes the development of communities by encouraging them in their health needs and aspirations, and realising them through the mobilisatiom of community-based resources with some external assistance. PARTNERSHIPS The Foundation has a shared vision with its partners and community stakeholders in working together with the aim of achieving a better health status for communities. OUR PARTNERS 1. Ministry of Health (MOH) 2. Ghana Health Service (GHS) 3. Ghana Education Service (GES) 4. P P A G 5. LINKAGES 6. International Institute for Communities Development (IICD) 7. Action Aid Ghana 8. Gamos UK 9. Big World (UK CHARITY) COMMUNITY STAKE HOLDERS HFG WORKS WITH 1. Religious Organisations 2. Municipal/District Assemblies 3. Traditional Councils 4. Organised Youth groups 5. Women's groups 6. Community members 7. Community Leaders 8. Opinion Leaders
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