Hopeworks Ghana educate children with special needs on coronavirus

Hopeworks Ghana on Saturday, 28th March 2020 embarked on a public awareness campaign to educate students with intellectual and developmental disabilities at Castle Road Special at Accra Psychiatric Hospital in Adabraka in Accra about the COVID-19 pandemic that plunged Ghana into a state of uncertainty.

Hopeworks Ghana is a Non-profit Organization (NGO) that is committed to empowering disadvantaged youth in deprived communities in rural Ghana with its focus areas on disability, economic empowerment, health and basic education.

Hopeworks Ghana holds a membership status with SDGs Ghana National Platform operating mainly on Goals 1, 3 and 8, and hold membership status with the National Council for Voluntary Organizations Ghana (NCVO-UK), National Consortium for Voluntary Organizations-UK (NCVO Ghana), Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA).

Hopeworks Ghana is a recipient of two international awards; Books for PEACE Award in 2019 for its Humanitarian Work and Global NGO Leadership Award 2020 in 2020, and has been nominated for 4 categories of the Humanitarian Ghana Awards 2020.

Hopeworks Ghana in the wake of the COVID-19 disease that has hit the world and Ghana has found it extremely necessary to embark on a public awareness campaign in Special Needs Schools in deprived communities in Ghana to educate children/individuals with Special Needs on the pandemic, it's causes and prevention of Coronavirus.

The Reach-Out Project is an effort to contribute to complimenting Government's effort of preventing the spread of Covid-19. The team also presented some sets of veronina buckets, bowls, tissues and liquid soaps to help them fight and/or reduce the effect of the spread.

They further called on benevolent individuals and organizations to come on board as they scale it up to cover more less privileged families with children/individuals with Special Needs in deprived communities.