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About 200,000 people have died of hunger worldwide since the much-heralded United Nations Food Systems Summit concluded about two weeks ago. Oxfam estimates that 11 people are likely dying every minute from acute hunger — or an estimated 15,840 people every day. Another 720 and 811 million people — primarily women and children — do

The Doreen Andoh Book Farm and Opoku Gakpo Foundation have donated books and other school supplies to schools in the Ajumako Ba community in the Ajumako – Enyan – Esiam District of the Central Region. Reading books, writing books, school bags, mathematical sets, pens and pencils were some of the supplies donated to the pupils.

The Opoku Gakpo Foundation (OGF) and Care Right Foundation (CRF) are partnering the Social Youth Drive Foundation (SYDF) to raise funds to build a three-unit classroom block for the Akaglakope community in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta region. The project, an initiative of SYDF, would use plastic waste and other building materials to

Social media was recently agog with attacks, criticisms and insults directed at two French scientists who irresponsibly suggested that a Covid-19 vaccine under development should be tested in Africa. It was exciting to see blacks, whites, and people of different complexions from Accra to Paris to New York match the recklessness of the French scientists’

At the start of the last decade in 2010 – in what was probably one of the most eye opening experiences of my life – I spent weeks volunteering as a school club facilitator and teacher in some of the most deprived rural communities in the then Mpohor Wassa District of the Western Region. Thanks

The Opoku Gakpo Foundation has donated books, school bags, mathematical sets, pencils and other school supplies to the Kportitsekorpe D/A Schoool in the Ada East District of the Greater Accra Region. Joseph Amartey who is headmaster of the school, as well as officials from the Social Welfare Department in the district, and the Education officer

A seven year old disabled boy has been gifted with a wheel chair following the intervention of founder of the Opoku Gakpo Foundation. He was also given an undisclosed sum of money by the Member of Parliament for Agona East in the Central Region Queenstar Pokuah Sawyer. Baba Karim who lives in Ejura in the

On Friday 19th April 2019, the Opoku Gakpo Foundation organized a get together for children at Kwesimayah in the Kade Constituency of the Eastern Region. Joseph Opoku Gakpo and friends conveyed biscuits, toffees, drinks, chips and other consumables, as well as toys, dresses and footwears to children in the deprived community. Hundreds of children as

The Opoku Gakpo Foundation has donated school uniforms and other school supplies worth about 30,000 Ghana cedis to the Nyitavuta D/A Basic School in the Volta region. The presentation is in fulfilment of a pledge the foundation’s founder Joseph Opoku Gakpo made after winning the MTN Heroes of Change Award last year https://www.myjoyonline.com/news/2018/May-19th/2-multimedia-journalists-honoured-at-mtn-heroes-of-change-finale.php. Opoku Gakpo