ABOUT US
We are a Ghanaian, non-governmental, not-for-profit organization that facilitates and improves the health, education and socio-economic status of our beneficiaries. Our work focuses on women, children, young people, and persons with disabilities including people living with HIV and Aids. True Vision Ghana (TVG) was founded in 2006 to address the devastating effects of HIV and AIDS on vulnerable people in Northern Ghana. The organization aimed to provide dignity and treatment access for HIV+ individuals. It also focused on raising funds for healthcare support and prevention efforts. TVG collaborated with friends and families to offer care and support for those in the end stage of life. We act as a bridge between the private and public sectors, and our goal is to alleviate poverty, increases participation and ensure equity among all especially the underserved. TVG identifies and reacts to the challenges presented by HIV and AIDS on individuals and communities through education, support and empowerment. In doing so, TVG intends to promote the realization of rights of underprivileged children affected, facilitate and improve the health, education and socio-economic status of women, children and young people through empowerment, rights based approaches, innovative and acceptable participatory strategies.
We strive to combat malnutrition and improve maternal and child health holistically and also work with children, young people women, underprivileged communities, persons with disabilities to transform their lives and build their capacities to take control over their lives in order to end chronic poverty in undeserved homes and communities in Ghana.
Mission:
To facilitate and contribute in developing a sustainable care and prevention of HIV and AIDS, TB as well as other diseases, and improve the health, education and socioeconomic status of women, children and young people to live a dignified live through social and economic empowerment.
Vision:
To be the leading advocate and facilitator for a sustainable and dignified living for the disadvantaged individuals and their communities.
Our Goal
To form partnerships that will facilitate and improve the health, education and socioeconomic status of women, children and young people through empowerment, right-based approaches, climate smart agriculture. innovative, acceptable, sustainable, and participatory strategies.
Before Nutrition for Life Foundation Merged With True Vision Ghana
Nutrition for Life Foundation was run by Edward Naapong. Nutrition for Life Foundation originated from Edward's childhood experiences where he witnessed a gross lack of interest in health-seeking behaviors and education growing up which coupled with high morbidity and mortality children and pregnant women due to malnutrition at the Nadowli hospital where he worked in 2014 as a nutrition officer. He witnessed high stigma, lack of priority of care given to malnourished children and their families at both health care facilities and community levels. These experiences propelled him to start an informal Nutrition for Life Foundation voluntarily to ensure the nutrition, health, food security, the rights, and well-being of malnourished children, pregnant women, and their families in 2017.
Nutrition for Life has since 2017 in partnership with colleague workers, Nadowli District hospital’s management, friends, and other local organizations, Edward raised funding to support their medical bill payments, feeding, and health insurance renewal and initiated backyard rearing among vulnerable children and families. To combat malnutrition and improve maternal and child health holistically, he initiated the Reading for Life Project in Koro Junior High School and Buo Junior High School in partnership with support from the Necessary Aid Alliance, Youth Model Parliament (YMP) of Youth Empowerment Consortium (YEC) ELFA Foundation and the Ghana Education Service in 2022 in order towards the achievement of its goal.
In October 2023, the Nutrition for Life Foundation started the process for formal registration as well as seeking partnerships with link-minded individuals and organizations to expand its activities.
Nutrition for Life Foundation works with children, young people women, underprivelliage communities, persons with disabilities to transform their lives and build their capacities to take control over their lives in order to end chronic poverty in underserve homes and communities in Ghana.
Faustina Vimariba founded True Vision Ghana (TVG) in 2006 after her very personal experience with the devastation effects of HIV and AIDS among vulnerable people in Northern Ghana. Her family member’s struggle with this terrible disease and the stigma of being an HIV+ person compelled Faustina to start TVG to ensure that other HIV+ people can live in dignity and get access to the treatment they require.
Touched by her experience at the time, the idea of starting a foundation dedicated to helping especially those already infected with HIV and who had developed AIDS emerged and True Vision Ghana emerged and was established. TVG was meant to replicate what she had started, collaborating, partnering with friends and families, raising support, in-kind and in-cash support for affected persons and families giving those in the end stage of life, the appropriate care and support to ensure a dignified death.
True Vision Ghana finally was founded under two major objectives; 1) raise funds to support the healthcare of affected persons and families and 2) to focus on prevention so many would not get infected and end up at the facility with AIDS.
After years of partnering with Friends and families to support the operations of TVG, came across the need of registering the organization in Canada after a voluntary service of Meghan and Vessey who after supporting the activities in Ghana expressed their passion and saw the need to support raise funds from Canada to support the vision of TVG.
Who We Are?
We act as a bridge between the private and public sectors, and our goal is to alleviate poverty, increases participation and ensure equity among all especially the underserved.
Between 2010-2020
After many years of operations focusing on HIV and AIDs with other related activities, the organization repositioned to expand its services to cover key development areas after key lessons learned and strategic partnership in key areas of Ghana development agenda. The organization strategic review in 2020 revealed key development issues and the potential for in working together in achieving a more holistic objective and making impacts on the lives of people and communities. For example, Food insecurity, degraded livelihoods, increased vulnerability and adverse socio-economic impacts have been identified in many instances as both factors and consequences of HIV/AIDS. Some of the most significant social and economic consequences include.
Considering the above analysis is still relevant in a changing environment. However, the environment has changed considerably from what it was at the time of formulation of the vision of TVG. It has brought forth fresh local and global challenges that impact on the issues that TVG is trying to address thus necessitating the organisation to engage differently. This led the organisation to undergo a deep reflection and analysis of its purpose, mandate and procedures, considering a more strategic approach aligning with both national and global policies the delivers sustainable impact for it beneficiaries.
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