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Sponsor a Women to Start Her Own Business in Ghana
It’s time to end the gap between genders in Ghana, Women need their own future and identity.
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Project Summary
Project Challenge
Project Solution
Impact
Reports
Project Summary
This project aims to identify aspiring local entrepreneurs who want to set-up a business and give themselves a sustainable income source. Often these women have a great business idea but with no means of funding it themselves, the government is also often not an option due to lack of funding. We will provide these women with grants to get a head start in their business and instead of paying high-interest rates on a loan they instead can give back to the project to help the next woman
Project Challenge
Life in a township is unregistered and therefore you can’t just set up a business. The only way we can tackle all the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals is through training, investment and job creation, this is what is at the heart of this project. A gift to this project helps our women take the first step to a future as a female entrepreneur. This helps tackle the inequality of gender across Africa
Project Solution
We get to know the women as they sign up and join our 6-week training program and therefore we are in the best position to identify women that graduate and have the drive to set up their own business but are presented with a block due to funding. We will continue to provide graduates with support and access to sewing machines, stoves and computers but with a small start-up grant to purchase essential supplies is often the only thing needed to support local women start her very own business
Impact
This will reduce dependency on foreign aid and create sustainable economic growth and empower locals to take control over their future. In addition, the project will contribute to skills development and provide job opportunities which will break the cycle of poverty. By having an income, families will have the means to independently pay for food, education and healthcare which will again reduce dependency and contribute to economic growth.
Reports
Project Report | Mar 9, 2026
Elmina Community Are Taking Over Our Project
By Tyrone Bennett | CEO of Action Change
Akwaaba everyone,
It feels like a lifetime ago that we started our first program in Elmina, but looking at the calendar, it has actually been eight years. Thanks for stopping by to read this. Your support has been the engine behind everything we’ve done here, and I want to make sure you know exactly where that energy is going.
We have a massive milestone in our sights: we believe 2026 is going to be our final year in this specific community.
When we look back at the 300 women who have walked through our doors, it is hard not to get emotional. Every single one of them has moved into employment, and over the last four years, we have seen their work go from training pieces to a polished product that is selling at the famous tourist spot by the old slave castle on the Cape Coast. We have reached a point where eight of our alumni are fully employed, and we are finally turning a profit.
The goal now is simple but bold: we want to hand the keys over to the local community by November 2026. We are not just walking away, of course we will stick around as mentors but these women are ready to own this. They have the skills, the drive, and the plan to make this project financially sustain itself for the Elmina fishing community for years to come.
To make that final handover a reality, we need one last push to upgrade our machinery this year. If we get this tech upgrade, we know the project will be standing on its own two feet long after we’ve moved on.
And that is where it gets interesting.
I am spending the first few months of 2027 in Accra and the surrounding urban townships. We are already mapping out our next women’s empowerment program. This means 2026 is a huge transition year for us. We are balancing an exit strategy in Elmina with a major fundraising push to secure a new space, buy new equipment, and train up the local leaders who will run the show in Accra.
We have the Little by Little campaign coming up on GlobalGiving from March 17th to the 20th. Since every donation up to 50 dollars gets a 50 percent match, this is our best shot at clearing those final equipment costs in Elmina and stacking up the runway we need for Accra.
Mark your calendars for March 17th. We would love it if you shared this story with your people. We are not just finishing one project; we are setting the foundation for the next chapter.
Thanks for being in our corner. It means everything to me and the women we work with.
This project aims to identify aspiring local entrepreneurs who want to set-up a business and give themselves a sustainable income source. Often these women have a great business idea but with no means of funding it themselves, the government is also often not an option due to lack of funding. We will provide these women with grants to get a head start in their business and instead of paying high-interest rates on a loan they instead can give back to the project to help the next woman
Life in a township is unregistered and therefore you can’t just set up a business. The only way we can tackle all the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals is through training, investment and job creation, this is what is at the heart of this project. A gift to this project helps our women take the first step to a future as a female entrepreneur. This helps tackle the inequality of gender across Africa
We get to know the women as they sign up and join our 6-week training program and therefore we are in the best position to identify women that graduate and have the drive to set up their own business but are presented with a block due to funding. We will continue to provide graduates with support and access to sewing machines, stoves and computers but with a small start-up grant to purchase essential supplies is often the only thing needed to support local women start her very own business
This will reduce dependency on foreign aid and create sustainable economic growth and empower locals to take control over their future. In addition, the project will contribute to skills development and provide job opportunities which will break the cycle of poverty. By having an income, families will have the means to independently pay for food, education and healthcare which will again reduce dependency and contribute to economic growth.
Project Report | Mar 9, 2026
Elmina Community Are Taking Over Our Project
By Tyrone Bennett | CEO of Action Change
Akwaaba everyone,
It feels like a lifetime ago that we started our first program in Elmina, but looking at the calendar, it has actually been eight years. Thanks for stopping by to read this. Your support has been the engine behind everything we’ve done here, and I want to make sure you know exactly where that energy is going.
We have a massive milestone in our sights: we believe 2026 is going to be our final year in this specific community.
When we look back at the 300 women who have walked through our doors, it is hard not to get emotional. Every single one of them has moved into employment, and over the last four years, we have seen their work go from training pieces to a polished product that is selling at the famous tourist spot by the old slave castle on the Cape Coast. We have reached a point where eight of our alumni are fully employed, and we are finally turning a profit.
The goal now is simple but bold: we want to hand the keys over to the local community by November 2026. We are not just walking away, of course we will stick around as mentors but these women are ready to own this. They have the skills, the drive, and the plan to make this project financially sustain itself for the Elmina fishing community for years to come.
To make that final handover a reality, we need one last push to upgrade our machinery this year. If we get this tech upgrade, we know the project will be standing on its own two feet long after we’ve moved on.
And that is where it gets interesting.
I am spending the first few months of 2027 in Accra and the surrounding urban townships. We are already mapping out our next women’s empowerment program. This means 2026 is a huge transition year for us. We are balancing an exit strategy in Elmina with a major fundraising push to secure a new space, buy new equipment, and train up the local leaders who will run the show in Accra.
We have the Little by Little campaign coming up on GlobalGiving from March 17th to the 20th. Since every donation up to 50 dollars gets a 50 percent match, this is our best shot at clearing those final equipment costs in Elmina and stacking up the runway we need for Accra.
Mark your calendars for March 17th. We would love it if you shared this story with your people. We are not just finishing one project; we are setting the foundation for the next chapter.
Thanks for being in our corner. It means everything to me and the women we work with.
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