Learning Helping Living

Learning Helping Living (LHL) is a community-based, non-profit, and non-governmental organization recognized by the Department of Social Welfare in 1984 and registered with the Registrar Generals Department in 1989. It has branches all over the country, particularly in the Greater Accra, Northern, Central, Volta, Asanti, Eastern, and Brong Ahafo regions.

Vision

To be a model indigenous Ghanaian development organization that combines a global outlook with local experience to create good basic food education, food security, good health, and sustainable development in rural Ghana.

Objectives

Learning Helping Living undertakes activies to

• Promote the use of appropriate technologies in farming, reforestation, and small- and medium-scale industries for the improvement of living conditions in disadvantaged communities.
• Encourage women to undertake income-generating ventures in cooperatives through the microfinance system.
• Create awareness of the rights of women and children and provide education on governance issues.
• Ensure conservation and rational use of natural resources and renewable energy.
• Provide health education for citizenry with emphasis on malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS.
• Educate parents about the importance of quality child education
• Advocate the empowerment of women and the vulnerable

Areas of Focus

• Sustainable agriculture and agro processing
• Environment
• Health education, including malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS safety, first aid, sanitation, and hygiene
• Gender and development, including empowerment of women
• Governance
• Basic education
• Fundamental human rights, including rights of women and children
• Microfinance
• Computer literacy for children

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