As part of our local fundraising programs to raise funding to continue to provide support to these underserved persons and communities, Songtaba started a local fundraising initiative known as FAAKO SOCIAL FUND.
The FAAKO SOCIAL FUND is a non-profit public benefit fund organized by Songtaba as a community owned initiative seeking to mobilize local resources for charitable purposes and for the development of communities in Northern Ghana. Many organizations and individuals including yours have contributed to this initiative in the last two years and to promote a strong transparent and accountability systems, Songtaba is organized an accountability forum to report and account to the donors including the general public on how the funds have been utilized in line with the objective of the fund as established. This forum also created the platform to fundraise to reach out to more donors.
The forum aimed to raise awareness about the prevalence and impact of witchcraft persecution on women in Ghana.
Its objectives included fostering dialogue and collaboration among diverse stakeholders and generating concrete recommendations to strengthen legal and policy frameworks, enhance access to justice and support services, promote education and awareness-raising campaigns, and advocate for the passage and effective implementation of the Anti-Witchcraft Bill.
Following the end of Songtaba entrepreneurship training and business grant challenge, Songtaba has come up with an innovative way to create a market space for the alumni through the creation of an online marketing app/shop where goods and services can be traded.
Songtaba is therefore organizing a training program for potential vendors/distributors on the deployment of the platform and to pretest the application. Interested individuals should complete and submit the registration form via this link: https://bit.ly/3QOrRm3
The Parliament of Ghana has passed the long-awaited Bill to proscribe witchcraft
accusations, which seeks to criminalise the practice of declaring, accusing, naming, or
labelling people as witches. This comes after concerted efforts by numerous stakeholders
to combat the ongoing social menace of witchcraft accusations which primarily target poor,
older, and widowed women.
As today 23rd July 2023 marks exactly three years since Madam Akua Denteh was brutally lynched in Kafaba, the Coalition Against Witchcraft Accusation (CAWA) released a press statement on the conviction of Akua Denteh and the need to pass the Anti- Witchcraft Accusation Bill currently languishing in Parliament
Songtabawith funding support fromEMpower – The Emerging Markets Foundation Ltd implemented a 12 months project to support young entrepreneurs in business innovation and E-commerce in a post covid-19 era to make use of digital platforms to promote their business and increase profit margins.
As part of activities under the project a micro grants challenge was launched to support 20 young entrepreneurs with very innovative ideas. After a successful selection process, 20 innovative ideas have been selected to be supported with micro grants to implement these ideas.
The Regional Reintegration Committee calls for Justice for Mma Safura Imoro and Mba Cherefo accused of Witchraft and lynched at Zakpalsi community in the Mion District of the Northern Region
We the members of the Northern Regional Reintegration committee on Witchcraft Accusation and Disbandment of Allege Witches’ camps wish to condemn the lynching of Safura Imoro, a middle aged woman in her forties and Mba Cherefo, an elderly man in Zakpalsi in the Mion District of the Northern Region on suspicion of Witchcraft. It is unfortunate to learn that the two were lynched in the early hours of Sunday, 7th May, 2023. This is barbaric and an afront to Human Rights, especially as Ghana has signed onto a number of international human rights conventions including the CEDAW.
The particular worrying thing is that Mma Safura was killed at the forecourt of the Zakpalsi Naa Palace. She left behind 7 children, the last of which is only 3 years old.
This is a clear case of an alleged murder and there should not be any interference in order to give the police the space to do their investigations.
We wish to commend the police for their early visit to the scene in the community and urge them to press this through.
We collectively call on the police to act swiftly on this issue in order to bring the perpetrators to book and give justice to the victims and their families.
On this note, we appeal to traditional leaders to support the Police to give justice to the victims and their families whilst calling on Parliament to hasten the passage of the Anti-witchcraft bill into law.
We urge the general public to desist from taking the law into their hands.
The committee can confirm that the case was reported to the police at the Mion District.
Reintegration Committee Members: ActionAid, Songtaba, CHRAJ, DoVVSU, Department of Gender, Representatives of traditional and Religious leaders.
Songtaba hosted Plan International Canada CEO, Plan International Ghana country Director , Global Affairs Canada Board and Donors at Zugu Community in Kumbungu to interact with project partners including showcasing of project impact under the WVL (Women Voice and Leadership) project.
