OUR PARTNERS

GHANA

2023 Partner Update

In January 2012, SHGO formed a very special partnership in Ghana with the local NGO HOCAP (Home of Care and Protection). The organization’s talented director, Barbara Asempa, has experience managing large multinational humanitarian and development efforts in Ghana – but left this work to establish HOCAP, fueling a passion to collaborate with local communities for true grassroots development. HOCAP partners with seven rural communities surrounding the Tema area to:

Provide spiritual nurture;
Extend services for education and healthcare – with a focus on service provision for youth;
Develop systems for economic development through agriculture and micro-lending;
Promote support systems for women, children, and families;
Enact sustainable and community-driven development initiatives.

SHGO’s partnership with HOCAP is currently engaged with the development and promotion of a 5-year micro-lending program, extending small loans to local farmers for subsistence agriculture and income-generation. With this investment in local enterprise, funds earned serve to feed struggling families throughout the dry season, provide schooling and healthcare for children, and sustain family units and communities far beyond the harvest. With small amounts of interest earned, and loan repayment rates at 98 – 100%, the micro-lending fund provides a sustainable and ever-growing pool for economic and community-based development efforts.

Update June 2026

For 15 years, Seven Hills has impacted more than 25,000 lives in 8 developing countries worldwide. Dr. David Jordan, President Emeritus of Seven Hills, has led this effort and continues to launch and support life-changing initiatives with partners in each country. Securing donors is always a work in progress.

In 2005, during a trip to Ghana, he met his partner, Barbara Asempa, of the Home of Care and Promise, to build a vocational school to help poor women and girls support their families. He had already purchased the first three sewing machines, and there was demonstrated success. That same trip, they broke ground on a new center with no funding, only a promise and faith to make it happen.

The day after the groundbreaking, he received a large donation to SHGO, which paid for the construction. “Really, it was a miracle. Since the night of the groundbreaking, I couldn’t sleep, worrying about where I was going to find the money needed for construction.

The next morning at breakfast, I got a note from a donor with the funds.” Dr. Jordan recalled. All of the treadle sewing machines gifted to the graduates are funded through the Drs. David & Kathleen Jordan Charitable Fund.

Now that the vocational center in Ghana has been completed, women are learning to sew traditional Ghanaian clothing and to bake and cook, leaving with self-employment skills and a bright future!