May 6, 2025, 4:07pm MDT
Latter-day Saints’ Church of Jesus Christ has donated new facilities and educational programs to two remote villages in Ghana’s Volta region to help students overcome their learning challenges.
On March 21st, students, teachers and educators from West African countries celebrated the donation with dance and speeches.
Then, on April 24, the church donated equipment to six health facilities in the eastern region of Ghana, increasing training from the church in maternal and neonatal care.
This effort is part of the Church’s global initiative for women and children led by the Relief Society. The initiative calls for the greatest impact possible by putting money into efforts to specifically celebrate the lives of women and children under the age of five.
For educational contributions, the Church collaborated with Rights, a global non-governmental organization.
In his remarks to the audience at the official ceremony, Elder Samuel Annan Simmons, a district of 70, cited the church President Russell M. Nelson. “In the church, it is a religious responsibility to gain education and knowledge.
Elder Annan Simmons concluded, “I want you to know that we love you. This is our efforts to live the teachings of Jesus Christ, which is to love God and love our fellow people.”
For a project that includes six health facilities at Ghana Health Services, the church funded Jpego, a nonprofit organization focusing on international health that exists across the country, the Church’s African newsroom reported. The donations included a handheld Doppler scanner, ultrasound device, stethoscope, bags, mask resuscitations and oxygen tanks to check the baby’s heartbeat in the uterus.
Church representatives provided training oversight, including Elder Michael Vissick, a pediatrician who serves as a senior humanitarian missionary.
At the handover event, Elder Visik spoke about what church members are making all over the world to care for their siblings in need.
“This ability building and this equipment will not come to you from governments with the agenda. This will come to you from members of the church. Mothers, fathers sacrificed us because we feel our God does not want our mother to die.
President Kenneth S. Oconco, second counselor to the Equity President of Coforidua Ghana, told the audience that donations of equipment are a symbol of the core values of the church’s love and the importance of life.
“We believe that the value of our soul, or the value of life, is extremely important to our heavenly Father,” he said.
Donations to prisons and dispatch centres in Ghana
Other donations throughout Ghana have sought to improve the lives of people in need.
The church donated a solid waste incinerator to HO Teaching Hospital on March 4 in the Volta region of Ghana on March 4 to help hospitals meet the growing needs of the community.
Then, on March 17th, the church provided computer equipment, sewing machines, textiles and more to Washington Central Prison in Ghana’s Upper West area. This will allow inmates to acquire the skills to make a living on release, the African newsroom reports.
On April 4th, Ghana National Ambulance welcomed the donation of the renovated and renovated emergency dispatch centre thanks to funds from the church and efforts from the Hunghung Project.
At the beginning of March, the church donated special ambulances to support thousands of people in 10 districts of Ghana. Modified electric tricycle ambulances are all stages of mini-groups that allow them to reach communities that traditional ambulances cannot.
President Desmond O. Anom, president of the Coforidu Agana Stake, mentioned James 2:8. So today we are fulfilling the law that all Christians are supposed to fill up to help God’s children.
