BASIC in Ghana
BASIC is a non-profit international community development organization committed to improving the lives of our brothers and sisters around the world through partnership.
BASIC works with those living in extreme poverty, abandoning the vanity of leading top-down change for the joys of learning, growing, and working together. Through partnership with the indigenous community leaders, BASIC works with local people to understand the projects that are most important to them. We develop plans, mutual commitments, and gather resources in partnership with local capabilities and other NGOs. Through ongoing involvement of short-term teams and individuals, we work to fill the skills and resource gaps and act as co-managers with local leadership.
As we support each other we hold one another accountable. We understand that effective communication, early results, and mutual respect build the trust needed to take on bigger projects. On each project the BASIC teams maintain a long-term relationship that will last well beyond the development phase.
Our first projects are now happening in the village of Kasei, Ghana. In partnership with the village, we embarked on the projects most important to them.
As our resources grow, we form teams to work within Ghana and other African countries. What is needed? You are. We are looking for builders, nurses, educators, doctors, laborers, engineers, farmers, trades people, lawyers, businesspeople, students, community organizers, homemakers, and others. We need people with a desire to learn, get things done, and make a difference.