True Vision Ghana

True Vision Ghana provides services through three main programmes: education and training, care and aid, and economic empowerment. The education and training programme works with health care workers and young people to support HIV/AIDS education and youth empowerment. Specifically, the programme trains Ghanaian healthcare workers to volunteer in underprivileged communities and support HIV/AIDS education initiatives. This includes providing HIV/AIDS classes focusing on risks and preventative measures, as well as malaria and other health topics; facilitating sex education classes and clubs in primary and junior secondary schools, as well as training youth leaders to run them; and providing a monthly youth-run radio programme on HIV/AIDS issues. According to the organisers, educating youth and empowering them to talk about HIV/AIDS issues without fear of being judged, is the key to lowering rates of HIV/AIDS in the future.

The care and aid programme focuses on providing food, access to antiretrovirals and the national health insurance programme, and school fees and supplies to people living with HIV and vulnerable children. The organisation's economic empowerment programme works to provide micro-financing and support to women affected by HIV/AIDS.

HIV/AIDS, Children, Youth

According to True Vision, once they receive more funding and donations, the number of children in the care and aid programme will be expanded, as will the number of communities involved in health and sex education. Currently, the organisation works in 6 communities in Northern Ghana. The organisation hopes that within a 5-year period the various programmes in the communities will become self-sustaining and will only require occasional visits and support from True Vision Ghana. This will better enable the organisation to work with other communities in the region.