A Ghanaian non-governmental organisation (NGO), Naabans Foundation, which is dedicated to community development, the welfare of children and women empowerment, has urged media owners and practitioners in the country to propagate the foundation's activities.

This would enable the foundation to secure financial and material support to undertake its community development activities to improve the socio-economic lives of the people.

Some of the foundation's activities include building resilience and empowerment for the vulnerable, especially in agriculture and assisting children in all forms of education and health.

Through the foundation's efforts, vulnerable people can sustain themselves, particularly by earning a living without depending on others.

At a media engagement to mark the foundation's activities in Koforidua yesterday, the Executive Director of the Naabans Foundation, Nana Abena Asomakyere I, who is also the Mawerehemaa of Aboadakaa in the Suhum Municipality of the Eastern Region, said the foundation had been operating in the Suhum Municipality, Ayensuano District and the Komenda Edina District in the Central Region.

She told the gathering that the foundation, which had been focusing on areas such as education, health, and livelihood empowerment, had recently faced major constraints in mobilising adequate resources.

That, Nana Asomakyere indicated, made it difficult for the foundation to scale up and sustain its interventions in deprived communities within its operational areas.

She stated that such financial difficulties had compelled the foundation to engage the media in promoting its activities to  support from individuals mobilise and benevolent organisations.

This collaboration would aid in resource mobilisation, enabling the foundation to carry out its work to bring relief to children and marginalised groups in society.

Story telling

According to the Mawerehemaa of Aboadakaa, the mobilisation efforts would be through visibility, storytelling, advocacy and strategic partnerships to address pressing community development needs.

For his part, the Programmes Assistant (Communications) of the West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI), Gideon Ahenkorah, said funding for NGOs over the years had shifted dramatically and that traditional donor flows that once sustained civil society had been shrinking.