Ghana Projects

In collaboration with Fr. Beyuo Kuukole, missionary priest serving in the Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kansas, we have a goal to build a couple new in-ground wells every year.  The wells are built where there is not an infrastructure for people to have water in their homes. The more wells that are built, the closer people can have water to their homes. Each well costs approximately $3,500 to dig and build and provides water for 300-1,000 people!  Below are some videos and photos of the well-digging process for two new wells dug in January 2023, paid for by generous donors through FAST.

We started collaborating with Fr. Beyuo Kuukole, missionary priest serving in the Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kansas, in 2021.  We are grateful that through generous donors we are able to support individual students in Ghana and support them through school.  

We are able to help with individual critical needs such as medical, housing, etc. when we have generous donors to support these and when we hear of a need. These are some things we have done in the past two years:  

• hospital costs for an elderly woman with a large tumor on her leg
• funeral costs for a very poor couple
• helped a widow pay off a dangerous debt, and then helped her children with school fees to prevent future debt.
• helped a priest with heart surgery to save his life
• started a farmer’s co-op of 28 people with a microfinance loan
• helped two orphaned sisters with fees for room and board and to learn sewing and weaving
• helped an elderly woman with hip surgery costs
• paid for cancer treatments for a 35 year old mother in Ghana, including chemotherapy and radiation

We are currently seeking funds to build a multipurpose community center in Nandom, Ghana. This building will be used for Mass, school, religious education, group meetings and classes, and community meetings. The entire cost of the project is $175,000, of which 10% would be contributed by the Ghanaian people that it would serve, and the remainder would hopefully come from U.S. donors.