Mission
to promote sustainable, rural development to reduce poverty by providing essential resources, quality education, vocational skills, and healthcare
Empowering rural communities to thrive
Since 2012, the Naa Yonmo Koshie Adoma Foundation has worked to promote sustainable rural development through quality education, healthcare, vocational skills, poverty alleviation, and clean water and sanitation.
12+
years walking alongside communities across rural Ghana, building skills, dignity, and lasting opportunity.
Community-ledEvery project begins with local families, elders, and trusted partners.
Working in partnership with
District Assemblies
Local Clinics
Faith Networks
Community Elders
At a glance
What the work is built around.
A quick look at the foundation's roots, focus areas, local relationships, and the practical pathways that guide each project.
Who we are
Born from lived experience, built for lasting change
The foundation grew out of our founder's own experience with hardship and a conviction that vulnerable rural families deserve more than relief. They deserve real, practical opportunity. Today we work hand in hand with communities to turn that conviction into schools attended, skills learned, clinics reached, and clean water flowing.
Vision
to empower and improve the life of vulnerable communities thriving through education, health and sustainable livelihoods, with equitable access to education, vocational training and healthcare services.
Integrity & Transparency
Clear stewardship, honest reporting, and open communication.
Compassion & Empathy
Listening first, then serving in a way that protects dignity.
Empowerment
Building skills and local confidence, not dependency.
Programs
Five ways the work reaches people
Each pathway starts with a practical need and grows into steady support for families, elders, children, and young people.
5practical routes into dignity, health, learning, water, and work
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Widows & Orphans Support
Care and practical support for widows, orphaned children, and vulnerable households through education, supplies, and steady community follow-up.
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Health Screening Programs
Community health screening programs that bring basic checks, guidance, and referrals closer to vulnerable families.
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Emergency Relief for Vulnerable & Elderly
Emergency relief for vulnerable people and elderly community members during urgent need, hardship, or crisis.
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Clean Water & Sanitation Projects
Clean water access and sanitation projects that reduce preventable illness and protect time for school, work, and family life.
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Youth Skill Training
Vocational and practical skills training that helps young people create pathways into work, enterprise, and service.
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Community impact
When a community has the tools to care for its own, dignity follows.
In one rural district, a borehole can mean children no longer walk hours for water before school. A skills workshop can help a young mother start a small trade. These are quiet, everyday transformations, led by the people who live them.
- 2.5k
- people reached
- 5
- program areas
Give with confidence
Give where care becomes practical
Your donation helps turn everyday barriers into reachable next steps: school materials in a child's hands, clean water closer to home, health checks for elders, and skills that help young people earn with confidence.
Lend your time & skills
Become a volunteer
Teachers, health workers, tradespeople, organisers, storytellers, and students can all find a practical way into the work. Join a community project, support a screening day, or share a skill that opens a door.
5program areas to join
Flexibleon-site & remote roles
Localcommunity-led teams
News, blog & events
A living record of programs, events, and field notes.
Upcoming events
Elder Care Screening Day
Mobile outreach with partner health workers
Youth Skills Practical Workshop
Hands-on training with local mentors
Latest notes
View allHow nearby water gives school mornings back to children
Families spend less time walking for water and more time preparing children for class, work, and care at home.
Read article Program updateMentors are shaping the next youth skills cohort
Local tradespeople are helping align training sessions with practical work, small enterprise, and community service.
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Moments from the work in motion.
Our team
People and partners behind the work.
A small leadership circle keeps the work close to the communities it serves, connecting vision, program coordination, and volunteer action.
Adoma Koshie
Founder
Esi Mensah
Programs Coordinator
Kwame Tetteh
Volunteer Lead
Ready to make a difference today?
Your gift helps a child learn, an elder get care, and a village access clean water.
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Start a conversation with the foundation.
Have a donation question, partnership idea, volunteer enquiry, or community project to discuss? Send a note and the foundation team will follow up.
hello@nykafoundation.org
Phone
+233 24 123 4567
Location
Greater Accra, Ghana, with outreach programs serving nearby rural communities