Project Helping Hands

Assisting Marginalized Communities in Accra, Ghana

"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink......."Matthew 25:35

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Our Story

In March 23, 2020 Heads Hearts ‘n’ Hands launched a GoFundMe campaign to assist marginalized communities in Ghana during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Funds raised from this campaign were used in the following initiatives:

Distributing Hand Sanitizers

Initial funds raised were used in purchasing hand sanitizers. These were distributed to 300 homes in Nima and Mamobi.

Donation of Masks and Gloves

Additionally, face masks and gloves were purchased for health personnel at the Madina Polyclinic Kekele. This clinic is severely under-resourced health facility that caters to highly populated marginalised communities

Feeding Initiative

Seventeen families who had been severely impacted by the temporary shutdown during the COVID-19 pandemic were identified in Nima and Mamobi and provided with food items for a period of three weeks.

Where we are now - Project Helping Hands

As we got to know these seventeen families and heard their stories we realized that they will need assistance beyond three weeks of food supply. Heads Hearts ‘n’ Hands and their partners are launching Project Helping Hands to provide additional assistance to these families. Our goal is to provide basic necessities for these families (food, toiletries, clothing) beyond three weeks.

Meet out families:

Halimatu Bukari
Widow with sole guardian of her young grandchildren. Primary source of income which is selling “ice blocks” has almost collapsed due to the COVID -19 pandemic measures.

HAJARA HUSSEIN
Married with five children. Husband left to marry another woman. Unemployed but will be happy to be helped to start some trading so as to support her children.

IYABO SHAIBU
Is an elderly widow with an older daughter who is currently unemployed. She has been blind for the past five years.

LYDIA ASABEA
Married with four young children. They went through a traumatic situation when her husband was abducted for three months in 2019. Due to his ordeal he suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and is unemployed. Lydia went through surgery due to still birth but unfortunately had to go through surgery the second time because a catheter was left in her body which has rendered her inactive and unable to do any job until she fully recovers

FUSEINA ABUBAKARI
Domestic worker with four young children. Her husband has been sick for many years and so she’s the only breadwinner in the family.

About us

Who we are

Heads Hearts ‘n’ Hands (H³) - Betty Blay Ackah and Benjamin Sackar (founders).
H³ is purpose-driven not-for-profit corporate entity dedicated to the less privileged and the marginalised in Ghana. At its core, H³ is a people-centred organisation set up to help support the large segment of the population stuck in a poverty rut.

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What We Do

Give a person a fish, and you feed them for a day; teach a person to fish and you feed them for a lifetime. (Variation of a quote by Lao Tzu).

The above citations informed the creation of Heads Hearts ‘n’ Hands (H³) and continue to constitute our guiding principles. One of the cruelest aspects of living in poverty is that people are robbed of their dignity, unable to cater for themselves and their families in the simplest ways.

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Why We Do It

We believe that it is not enough to provide people in need with a steady stream of handouts. People should be concurrently given the right resources to discover, develop and meaningfully utilize their abilities and capacities. The research is undeniable that when people take ownership of their socioeconomic improvement, it is more sustained.

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