Vodafone Foundation’s World of Difference ends

 

After two months of undertaking various life-changing projects that made positive impacts in the lives of many across the country, 50 participants under the third edition of the Vodafone Foundation’s World of Difference programme have wrapped up their activities on a successful note.

The World of Difference programme offers financial support to life-changing opportunities for participants, who then share their skills and energy with selected NGOs and communities around the country.

The participants spent not less than two months with their chosen beneficiaries so they could implement the change they sought in and around their communities.

The Foundation earlier this week, in Accra, brought together the participants from across the regions to officially announce the closure of the 2012 World of Difference programme, and also to congratulate them for helping touch lives in their respective communities.

From November 2012, participants have worked in various sectors to improve and enrich lives; some of these including health and wellbeing.

The project covered areas such as personal development among women and children, catering and vocational training, child care and development, waste management, agriculture, ICT training and development, and much more.

A participant, Sarah Nsiah -- working with Strength of Women Foundation, an NGO that focuses on women’s health issues, poverty reduction, malaria education and reduction -- worked tirelessly to educate people and reduce malaria cases to near-zero with great effect at Ho in the Volta Region. Community members are now better informed with a noticeable reduction in malaria cases.

Another participant with a life-changing outcome was Baffour Akwasi Agyeman, whose many years of giving blood to people that needed it most spurred him to work with the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in building a digitised blood bank system, which revolutionised the way in which people give and receive blood.

Samuel Kudzawu, a laboratory technician who also worked on Tuberculosis (TB), succeeded in raising much awareness within the community of Esikuma Odobe Braka District by using public health facilities, creating advocacy locally with council members and youth forums, and building a functioning TB lab that helped reduce TB cases in the district.

“We are proud of the participants, who dedicated their time and energy to work on projects that will have a positive impact in their communities.

“Vodafone Foundation World of Difference is all about making a difference in the community and making it a better place for all. We say a big “thank you” to all participants of 2012 and to the NGOs for truly changing lives for the better,” said Carmen Bruce-Annan, Head Corporate Communications for Vodafone.

“In its third year running, the World of Difference programme has to date positively transformed communities with impactful and sustainable projects across the country by supporting participants with resources needed to execute their life-changing projects.”

 

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