Rescue Volunteers is a female led organisation that happens to advocate for women and girl right. We are sure to ensure gender balance in our selection of executives and volunteers for the various activities that we engage in. Rescue Volunteers assists many more women and youth than we do men in our activities. We believe women have been marginalised for long in our society and the culture itself is male driven which relegate issues on women and girl right to the background. The Country Coordinator and Founder of the organisation herself is a woman.
Rescue Volunteers therefore trains its women and girl beneficiaries to advocate for rights of the female race in their communities and work places. We have a policy to work with queen mothers to pass our message across to the traditional leaders to consider right of women in their decision making processes. The Organisation organises durbars and musical shows led by female artist to drum home our messages and also to encourage other females to join in the effort to empower women and girls. Head porters and street hawkers, normally women are trained in various vocations and sent home to integrate with their community members and encourage other girls who may fall victim to child marriage or societal neglect to also take advantage of Rescue Volunteers programs. The objective of this initiative is to eliminate violence against women and girls and sustain respect for women’s bodily integrity and autonomy
Rescue Volunteers Ghana prides itself with the history made by Ghana in 1990, when Ghana was named the first country to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The country has many more policies in place to seek the welfare of children yet, children remain in the streets of the major cities in the country to date. These chilldren engage in many forms of economic activities to earn a living and in the are abused by opportunist in many ways that affect their human existence.
Rescue seeks the right of such children who are willing to be developed and reintegrated into their communities through the various capacity building programs we run.
Orphans are dear to the heart of Rescue Volunteers hence, we applaud the Government of Ghana and other private entities that build and run orphanages in the country. Our interest lies in the total development of orphans and this has initiated our partnership with orphanages to advocate for and ensure the right of orphans. Their right for shelter is what we seek most in our partnership with the orphanages. This follows from provision made in Section 19(3) of the United Nations Convention on Child Right which mandates it’s contracting Governments to remove a child in need of care and protection to a place of safety. Orphans brought to Rescue Volunteers are treated with care from the day they are discovered till they are finally developed. To ensure that operating standards are met, Rescue Volunteers partner with Domestic Violence
