Ghanaian NGO won Top Program Award in the U.S.

World Partners for Development (WPD) is a dedicated U.S. 501(c)3 nonprofit organization and a registered non-governmental organization in Ghana that is making positive impact in peoples lives by working in partnership to develop and implement sustainable innovative solutions to some of the world's most urgent challenges affecting human lives. Interactive video and audio communications are incorporated in our programs to enhance program understanding and the linking of viewers to new people around the world, places and experiences. WPD join forces with other partners to improve lives in the areas of health, environment, education and cross-cultural engagement.

World Partners for Development program proposal was selected as a Top Program by the Global Health Task Force and the U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy (USCCD) and as such was highlighted as a key component of the U.S. Summit for Global Citizen Diplomacy that was held November 16-19, 2010 in Washington, DC, USA. 39 U.S. states and 41 countries around the globe attended the summit.

The U.S. Summit for Global Citizen Diplomacy was a national meeting presented by the USCCD in partnership with the U.S. Department of State, Office of Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. The Summit was designed to broaden the momentum generated from the work of the USCCD as a national resource base and network for Americans to be engaged as citizen diplomats, and two major leadership forums focused on the revival of citizen diplomacy as a critical component of U.S. public diplomacy and foreign policy strategy. The Summit was the first such meeting since President Eisenhower’s People-to-People conference on the same subject 54 years ago.

Why was a small organization like World Partners for Development selected for such prestigious award among the multi million dollar nonprofit organizations around the globe? It's all because of our creative use of new technologies like videoconferencing, teleconferencing and also world dedicated volunteers to partner with the world to address global challenges affecting humanity, regardless of race, color, country of origin, gender, disability, religious or political status.

Find out more about how we build better lives through global links at www.wpdprojects.org. World Partners for Development welcomes your input on our work and you can contact us at info@wpdprojects.org.