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Pro-Link Ghana

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Agriculture Children Development Education Environment Extreme poverty Food HIV/AIDS Labour Social Development Women/gender Equality Youth Gender Issues and Advancement of Women: Capacity building The girl child Women and HIV/AIDS Women and health Women and poverty Social Development: Employment Poverty Youth
Geographic scope:	National
Country of activity:	Ghana
Millennium Development Goals:	Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Achieve universal primary education Promote gender equality and empower women Ensure environmental sustainability
Mission statement:	Founded in 1993, Pro-Link is a non-profit, non-sectarian, non-governmental organization that seeks to ensure equitable development opportunities for the rural and urban poor, especially women and girls. Pro-Link's mission is to advocate for and empower disadvantaged populations to improve their health, educational and socio-economic status. Our goal is to forge partnerships to facilitate action by communities and organized groups to improve their health, education, economic and social well being. Pro-Link envisions a world where women and men are given equal opportunities to the basic necessities of life irrespective of neither where they come from nor their educational levels. As professionals, we derived our name from the ideology that rural populations are also professionals in their own right. As such, we do not impose our ideas on them but instead collaborate with them to undertake projects. Together we develop communities and improve lives. To achieve its objectives, Pro-Link’s efforts embrace a broad cross-section of rural development and advocacy issues, including reproductive health and education, HIV/AIDS, child survival, income generation, vocational training, and food security. Our organization has an enviable record of successful program implementation, achieved through its focus on 6 districts and 70 communities in Ghana. Its efforts embrace projects covering a cross section of each district basic needs from nutrition, to health and welfare, to education, to income generation support, etc. The key to Pro-Link’s success is community leadership acceptance. Success in each project reinforces the district and community involvement in other projects, and the long term presence sustains the community based organizations (CBOs) established within each district. Our Objectives * To reduce the spread of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS through school and workplace programs. * To provide care and support for People Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), orphans and vulnerable children. * To provide income generating opportunities to alleviate poverty among urban and rural poor households. * To promote gender equity through research, advocacy, and training. * To establish partnerships between local and international professionals in the areas of health, education and internships. * To animate communities and groups to assess poverty alleviation opportunities.
Year established:	1993
Organizational structure:	The organization of Pro-Link Ghana is made up of: A Board of Directors, with a Chair; An Executive Director who is CEO and accountable to the Board; A core management secretariat; A qualified staff of 35, to implement the programmes. Pro-Link has its head Office in Accra Abavana Junction, Pigfarm. It also has District offices, which provide the base for its activities in the Hohoe, Mankessim, Aflao, Obuasi, Danfa and Kadjebi districts of Ghana, and ongoing operations in Mafi-Kumasi in the North Tongu district. Each project area has a local advisory board, which meets quarterly to provide direction and monitor project activities.
Number and type of members:	The organization of Pro-Link Ghana is made up of: A Board of Directors, with a Chair; An Executive Director who is CEO and accountable to the Board; A core management secretariat; A qualified staff of 35, to implement the programmes.
Affiliation with NGO networks:	Alliance for Reproductive Health and Rights ( ARHR), African Women Development Fund (AWDF), Society for Women and AIDS in Africa (SWAA), Network of Associations of Persons living with HIV (NAP+), Coalition of NGOs in anti-child labour, GHANET
Funding structure:	Foreign and international grants

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