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A foundation named for a standard, not a founder.
Obaatanpa is Twi for the good mother — the one who provides, who protects, and who does not count the cost. We took the name so that anyone could hold us to it.
Our story
Write the real story here. Donors read this section more closely than any other page on the site, and they can tell the difference between a story and a brochure. A few things worth including, in your own words:
- The moment that started it — a particular person, a particular day.
- What you tried first, and what you learned when it did not work.
- Why mothers, specifically, rather than any other group.
- Where the name came from, and who chose it.
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In 2021 a woman in Ashaiman went into labour on a Tuesday night and could not raise the GH₵40 for a taxi to the clinic. She delivered at home. Her daughter did not survive the night. The cost of that death was forty cedis and the distance to a building three kilometres away.
We started by paying taxi fares. That first year we paid for eighty-one journeys. It became obvious quite quickly that transport was one link in a longer chain — that the same household could not find fees for a daughter's school term, and that the mother's small trade could not grow because every cedi of profit went straight back out again. So the work widened, but the principle did not: find the specific thing that is blocking a specific household, and remove it.
What we are for
Our purpose. That safe birth, school fees and a steady income should be ordinary things in the communities where we work — not strokes of luck, and not favours.
What we will not do. We do not build things we cannot staff. We do not run programmes we cannot measure. We do not photograph anyone who has not been asked, in their own language, and told exactly where the photograph will appear.
How we work
Mothers decide
Every programme is designed with the women it serves, and our community committees can veto a plan they think will not work. They have done so twice, and both times they were right.
Stay long enough to matter
We commit to a community for a minimum of five years. Short projects produce good photographs and very little else.
Count honestly
We publish what did not work alongside what did. Our figures are checked by an independent auditor before they appear on this site.
Build on what exists
We strengthen the clinics, schools and savings groups already in the community rather than building parallel structures that leave when we do.
Where we work.
We work in a small number of places, year-round, rather than spreading thinly across the country.
Greater Accra
Ashaiman and surrounding communities. Safe birth and girls' scholarships, running since 2021.
Eastern Region
Nsawam and Suhum. Livelihoods and scholarships, running since 2023.
Next
We are assessing one further district for 2027. We will not open it until the current programmes are fully funded.
Who runs it.
Trustees serve without payment. Names, faces and real roles matter here — anonymous leadership is the first thing a serious donor treats as a warning sign.
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[Full name]
Executive Director
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[Full name]
Chair of Trustees
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[Full name]
Programmes Lead
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Finance and Compliance
Accountability.
Figures for the year ending 31 December 2025, audited by an independent firm. If anything here is unclear, ask us and we will explain it.
86%
goes directly to programmes — grants, fees, clinic costs and the field staff who deliver them.
9%
covers administration: office, audit, insurance and the systems that keep records straight.
5%
is spent on fundraising, which is how we bring in next year's programme money.
Policies
Every organisation working with children and vulnerable adults needs these in place before it starts, not after.
Safeguarding policy
Privacy notice
Conflict of interest policy
Obaatanpa Foundation is a company limited by guarantee, registered in Ghana. Registration No. CG-000000000. Registered with the Department of Social Welfare, No. D.S.W./0000. Registered office: 00 Street Name, Accra, Ghana.
Auditor: [Firm name], Accra. Bankers: [Bank name]. No trustee receives payment for board service, and no trustee has a financial interest in any supplier we use.
Who we work with.
Named partners, with their permission. Replace these with real ones — an empty list is better than an invented one.
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GH₵600 keeps one girl in school for a term.
Regular gifts are what let us promise a mother that we will still be here next year.