Village Exchange Ghana works on achieving its mission of poverty alleviation by empowering disadvantaged women in Ghana’s rural areas using a holistic approach, which includes:  sexual and reproductive health education, providing women with income generating opportunities, and working through microfinance.

VEG believes that encouraging good and responsible reproductive and sexual health is an important way of promoting the empowerment of women, improving gender relations and ensuring that women have equal educational and professional opportunities.  Our program aim at improving access to information on reproductive and sexual health issues, as well as providing support and realistic solutions for young women, youth and other identified groups.

In launching the Lady Volta Beads and Batik Projects, VEG hopes to improve the lives of women in poverty, and teenage mothers in particular. Through providing an innovative combination of income-generating activities, education, and financial services, VEI-Ghana strives to help the young women achieve financial independence and self-sufficiency.

Increasing access to credit facilities is in our view an essential component to any women’s empowerment program.  The VEG-Microfinance Institute offers back to back loans of increasing amounts. This both reduces our risk as unreliable clients are weeded out for larger loan amounts, as well as allows the growth of the business to follow a natural progression, the sustainability of the client growing with each new loan.

At VEI-Ghana, we aim to build close relationships with clients, supporting them in all aspects of their lives, by implementing these programs.