ChildWell Plus Foundation grew out of voluntary work that was already under way. In 2021, a team of health professionals, with backgrounds in disease control, health promotion, nutrition, health information, monitoring and evaluation, and nursing, began a volunteer-led child-health initiative in the Talensi and Bongo Districts. The work was delivered through the Ghana Health Service, the Catholic Health Service, basic schools, community systems, and partner institutions.
It began as a response to what the team saw in participating communities: high disease incidence, malnutrition, teenage pregnancies, and too many children dropping out of school.
Working with rural communities, basic schools, and primary healthcare facilities in the two districts, the initiative ran community education sessions, household visits, and school-health activities, including referrals to health facilities, trained community volunteers and school-health coordinators, and brought community leaders into child-health action.
That work taught us what helps children in rural northern Ghana and which local institutions need to work together to make it last. We founded ChildWell Plus Foundation to carry it forward: led by communities, guided by evidence, and built into the health, education, and community systems children already depend on.
