{"id":715798,"date":"2019-10-03T15:59:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T15:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/03\/world-vision-ghana-invests-20-million-annually-to-support-the-vulnerable\/"},"modified":"2019-10-03T15:59:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T15:59:44","slug":"world-vision-ghana-invests-20-million-annually-to-support-the-vulnerable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/03\/world-vision-ghana-invests-20-million-annually-to-support-the-vulnerable\/","title":{"rendered":"World Vision Ghana invests $20 million annually to support the vulnerable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.adomonline.com\/world-vision-ghana-invests-20-million-annually-to-support-the-vulnerable\/\">\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG-20191002-WA0008-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"IMG-20191002-WA0008\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Integrated Programmes Director, Nii Okai Okai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>World Vision Ghana has said every year it spends about $20 million in the country to help improve the standards of living of the vulnerable. He said people who benefit from the programmes are in remote areas.<\/p>\n<p>Integrated Programmes Director, Nii Okai Okai, speaking at the launch of 40 years of being in Ghana told<strong> Adom News <\/strong>that 40 years that they had been in the country, they have built schools, health facilities and trained health officials and teachers, provided potable water, sanitation\u00a0and WASH programmes among others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe work at places<br \/>\nwhere a lot of non-governmental organisations are not willing to go,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Okai said his<br \/>\noutfit played a major role in elimination of guinea worm in Ghana in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a Christian organisation,<br \/>\nwe take the risk and go to places where people are not willing to go and<br \/>\nprovide the necessary help to those in that area,\u201d Mr Okai said.<\/p>\n<p>The Programmes<br \/>\nDirector explained that wherever they go, they work in collaboration with<br \/>\ngovernment institutions and experts in that community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot has been achieved in our 40 years, but we still have more to be done in the years ahead of us,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Okai added that<br \/>\nbecause they work in collaboration with government agencies, they find it<br \/>\ndifficult to operate in areas where government structures and systems are weak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAreas and districts<br \/>\nwhere government mechanisms are weak, we are not able to get the full support<br \/>\nto work in those areas and have to fall on the regions to be able to do<br \/>\nwhatever we want to do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Okai is pleading<br \/>\nwith the government to ensure her systems and structures work in all areas to<br \/>\nenable non-governmental organisations like World Vision to do more for the<br \/>\nvulnerable to improve the conditions of living in deprived areas.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Adomonline.com | Adom News | Kwame Kulenu \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Integrated Programmes Director, Nii Okai Okai World Vision Ghana has said every year it spends about $20 million in the country to help improve the standards of living of the vulnerable. 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