Ghana STORIES

Development Bank Ghana and CorpsAfrica announce collaboration to drive Community Impact

Accra, Ghana — Development Bank Ghana (DBG) is excited to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with CorpsAfrica/Ghana, marking the beginning of a strategic collaborative effort to promote impactful community-driven corporate social...

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What Cocoa Taught Me That School Didn’t

As a CorpsAfrica Volunteer, I have promised not just to serve the people but to live with them. So, when Nana Ahensah, one of the local farmers, shouted, “Agya Ayensu, today we break pods!” I...

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Citi Newsroom: CorpsAfrica/Ghana hosts Pitch Day 2026 to boost community-led dev’t initiatives

by Jonathan Adjei CorpsAfrica/Ghana has successfully held its 4th Pitch Day in Accra, a flagship fundraising event aimed at supporting innovative, community-driven development projects across rural Ghana. The 31 March 2026 event brought together all...

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Is the Cocoa Pod Teaching Me More Than the Classroom Did?

As a CorpsAfrica Volunteer, I have promised not just to serve the people but to live with them. So, when Nana Ahensah, one of the local farmers, shouted, “Agya Ayensu, today we break pods!” I...

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She Chose to Rise…

Volunteering has a way of opening doors to stories you never expect to walk into. One ordinary afternoon, while returning from the local school where I volunteer to teach, I encountered a young woman whose...

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Learning Through Setbacks: My First Community Meeting Experience

Have you ever scheduled a meeting and no one turned up? How did that make you feel? Disappointed, perhaps, or even discouraged? As a CorpsAfrica Volunteer serving in a community in the Afadzato South District...

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When Community Support Feels Distant

I have spent time reflecting on my journey as a CorpsAfrica volunteer in Northern Ghana, and the emotions that surface are not easy ones; frustration, disappointment, and a quiet sense of self-doubt. My community is...

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True Development Begins with Listening

Today, I witnessed something that reminded me of a major challenge in rural development. Thus, the sustainability of projects. Many times, well-intentioned NGOs and organizations arrive in rural communities with the desire to help. Their...

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Behind Every Grain of Gari

If you passed through Senior High School (SHS) in Ghana, chances are gari saved you at some point. Gari soakings after prep, late nights with textbooks, or days when “food money” finished too early. For...

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Finding Home in Kojokrom

When the site postings were released, I was both nervous and excited to see where I would serve. The name Kojokrom sounded simple yet unfamiliar. On deployment day, as we turned off from the Komenda...

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