Keta Foundation

The Keta Foundation has been established to raise funds for the benefit of a number of philanthropic and other institutions in Ghana, Africa, and globally.

In Ghana, a primary beneficiary of U.S. donations will be Freedom University, based in Keta, Volta Region, Ghana, which will host students, faculty, staff and alumni who wish to become informed social activists in the battle against modern slavery. This project is funded under the aegis of the Freedom Corps Ghana Pioneer program.

A further sustainable project of considerable importance supported by the Keta Foundation is Freedom University's annual Keta Global Slavery Summit, designed to engage scholars, leaders, and experts in diverse fields to find and implement solutions to attack the core problems of ignorance, poverty, intolerance and lack of opportunity that fuels slavery throughout the world.

Keta Foundation will also assist victims - particularly children - at a number of benevolent institutions in Ghana. These include, but are not limited to HardtHaven, Kapando (Ghana's HIV/Aids Orphan's Home), Challenging Heights, Winnenden (HardtHaven promotes youth and family empowerment and children's rights to education and freedom from forced labour in Ghana), Adele Orphanage, Nkwanta, founded by the mother of our dear friend, Daniel N'gkobo nearly 50 years ago, who together with Angelika, has devoted all his income and efforts for the past two decades to keeping it going.

And then, there are the impoverished, semi-isolated and nearly forgotten men, women and children of Bomigo Island, a proud, highly artistic, hospitable people, with no local employment, their daily lives plagued by treatable illness, marked malnutrition, and clouds of mosquitos. The Chairman of Volta Region, Dr Normanyo “said it was profoundly regrettable that the youth of these areas were left to waste away; whirling in cycles of poverty; ignorance and backwardness; unaffected by policy and forced to drift to the cities to be manipulated by the dangerous vicissitudes of urban life.'

In 2000, three Bomigo girls were drowned on the way to school in an unstable canoe – the only means of transport. Just one of the many goals of Keta Foundation, is to purchase a secure motorboat to take children to school. But we hope with your aid, to do much more – to provide jobs, better housing, medicine and nutrition for these joyous people who refuse to have their spirits beaten down by their circumstances.

We have identified a variety of much needed projects for the Volta Region that will make a major impact in Ghana.

Our primary focus areas are education, health, agriculture, housing, environment, communications, infrastructure, energy, and tourism.

Projects range from the restoration of various buildings of colonial and historic significance, such as Fort Prinzenstein, to the development of anti-malaria home treatment teams, an artisanal fishery and wildlife center, medical clinics, affordable housing projects, telecom improvements and eco-tourism and immersive education experiences.

With the counsel of Emmanuel Akyeampong, and a visionary definition of the future role of a polytechnic institute, we have been able to re-define our goals and establish an initial time table for meeting them regarding the Freedom University and Freedom Corps Ghana Projects. As our financial base and human resources expand and permit greater flexibility and scope in our undertakings, these goals will be constantly updated and refined.

In addition to our core team of dedicated volunteer managers and strategic partners, who have developed a range of educational, industrial, agricultural and social projects over the past two years, we rely on guidance and assistance from our distinguished Advisory Board.

We are proud to announce that our two initial scholars and educators, Professor Emmanuel Akyeampong of Harvard University, and Professor Victor Gadzekpo of Ghana, have now been joined on our Advisory Committee by Professor Elyséé Soumonni of l'Université Nationale du Bénin, Cotonou, Professor Kodzo Gavua of the University of Ghana, Legon, and Professor Sandra Green of Cornell University.

We have secured permission from the Keta Municipal Assembly, His Majesty Togbi Sri III (King of the Anlo-Ewe people), the Chiefs and private owners of land and historical sites for 1) renovation/revitalization of existing buildings and 2) construction of needed new facilities. We have secured partnerships with clay manufacturers, portable agricultural processing manufacturers, prefab/building construction companies and banking facilities for credit funding and backing at the local/regional level. We have developed 20 detailed proposals/plans for much needed improvements in the region. We are now in the process of aggressive fundraising to fuel these projects for immediate start.