Ghanaian NGO Wins Top International Award

According to a UN youth report, the number of youth living in developing countries will grow by 89.5%, by 2015.

If these youth are not empowered with long lasting productive life skills and ideas through effective training and education then the future of the developing world is at risk.

It is against this background that World Partners for Development (WPD) which is a registered NGO in Ghana and also a registered 501(c )3 in the U.S.is taking all the effective steps it can to have high impact on Ghana youth with its sustainable empowerment programs.

WPD's Ghana program, SENSE (Students Engaged in Solar Enterprise) won them a second place prestigious Pan-African award among 350 NGOs from 39 countries.

The award Program Fellow who made the final announcement in this April, said, “The quality of entries was extremely high and organizations highlighted their innovative and entrepreneurial work in education from all countries.

We are excited to announce that World Partners for Development, Ghana was a second place winner of the 2012 Pan-African Awards for Entrepreneurship in Education”.

This is not the first international award that WPD has won; in 2010 they won the top 10 Global Citizen Program Award from the U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy in collaboration with the U.S. State Department.

WPD is also the first organization in West Africa to win a 5 year partnership program with the Adobe Youth Voices to empower Ghana's rural youth in multimedia projects. Our shoe donation program with partner organizations also support needy school children in Ghana with 10,000 pairs of brand new shoes every year.

WPD's award winning program, SENSE, is aimed to empower Ghana's rural underserved high school students in innovative Do-It-Yourself entrepreneurship education that empowers them to use available materials in the local market to design, assemble, install, maintain, and market their own hand made photovoltaic solar lanterns. WPD always comes withgreat ideas to empower humanity.

To learn more about World Partners for Development, please visitwww.wpdprojects.org. You may also make contacts via [email protected] to support, partner, volunteer or intern with their high impact work.