In this project we set up a Basic Income Group for 10 women in Ghana in cooperation with Compassion for Humanity. The goals for this project are threefold:
- To improve the living conditions of the participants
- To get it technically up and running with GoodDollars
- To be able to start fundraising for the next rounds with the results
GoodDollar distribution
Compassion for Humanity has selected a group of 10 women in Ghana for whom such a basic income can make a difference in their life. The women are free to decide how they want to spend the extra income. The participants receive 10.600 GoodDollars (G$) per day each. That is about one U.S. dollar per day. We distribute the same amount of G$ to the project coordinator from Compassion for Humanity, so he can monitor whether the technology is working properly. Compassion for Humanity will assist the participants during the project and monitor the results.
Project participants
These are the 10 participants in this project round.
Ruth Agbenyo (34) is a single mother with one child. She works as a petty trader, she buys womens clothing, cosmetics, etc and sells them to friends and people within the community. She plans to invest the money in her small business to increase her amount of goods to sell.
Edwina Agbesi (43) is married and has five kids all in school. She is a dress maker. She has a small wooden shop, where she sews dresses for women from around Adawso.
She plans to invest the money in her sewing business and will use it to pay for school fees.
Alhassan Ayishatu (22) is a young woman from Suhum. At young age she lost her parents, so she is on her own now. She has two siblings, but they are living with other family members. She is currently persuing business studies in the Technical University at Koforidua.
She plans to use the GoodDollars for her educational materials and believes this will improve her studies.
Tiwaa Bearice (24) is from Densuano in the Eastern region. Due to financial challenges she could not study further after her junior secondary education and stayed at home. But recently she enrolled into a sewing/dressmaking training. She is a first year apprentice and still has two more years to go.
She plans to use the GoodDollars to buy a sewing machine to help her practice at home and at work. With this she can also earn some income to pay for transport every day to the sewing centre.
Sarah Bediako (23) is staying with a family member as a house help, so that her parents could pay for higher education. Currently, she is learning to sew, to become a seamstress. She is in her 1st year as an apprentice.
She plans to use GoodDollars donation to buy a manual sewing machine to help her trade her trade. Also this will help her earn an income to take care of here basic needs.
Barbara Akwei (28) is student at University of Education Winniba in the central region. She stays with her parents and hopes to become a teacher in the future.
She plans to use the GoodDollars on her studies.
Rebecca Forjour (47) is single mother, and stays with her daughter. She is a trader and dressmaker.
She will use the extra income to buy womens cloth and sell it at her sewing shop. She hopes to increase her income so that she is able to pay her daughter’s school fees.
Innocentia Agypong (27) is from a family of 4. Since her parents could not afford school fees for higher education she had to stop after secondary school. But now she is a dress making apprentice.
She plans to use the GoodDollars donation for a manual sewing machine to help her learn her trade and earn some income during weekends at home.
Joyce Asabea (47) has 3 children, is married and stays with the family in Adawso. She has a provision shop where she works as a trader.
She plans to invest into her provision shop, by buying more drinks. This would help her pay up her children school fees.
Linda Afi (45) is single and works as a hair dresser.
She plans to use the GoodDollars to support her hairdressing business with additional hair products and creams.
Project results
The project runs for three months. After that we will evaluate the project and present the results here.
Project sponsors
A heartfelt thank you to the sponsors whose support made this project possible.
Do you want to become a sponsor too?
Contact us at info@fairspirit.com.
For other ways to support this project see the donation page.
Do mention “Basic Income Group Ghana” if you want to specifically support this project.
Thank you!