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It all started with a small church
The King's Village was pioneered by Ben and Marion Owusu-Sekyere. Ben comes from Ghana and Marion is from Radlett, England. They began their work in Tamale in 1999 and have lived and worked in Northern Region since then.
They started with a small church in their house in 2000, while visiting and working in various communities. They were greatly impacted by the living condition of the people and the deep poverty in the area and felt inspired to help the people in the most felt needs especially in the area of Education, Health, Water and Sanitation. With the help of donors and sponsors they acquired 43 acres of land next to their house from the local Chiefs and people of Zangbulung to use for a project. Since then they have built a hospital, school, nutrition centre and staff residences on this land.
Welcome
The King’s Village is a development project based in Northern Ghana - we provide healthcare, education and community development to the country’s poorest communities.
Why We Help
Among the local population of more than 160,000 people, only 1 in 20 adults are literate; 40 percent of children suffer long term consequences of malnutrition and there are few doctors.
What we do
We run a 24:7 medical centre offering emergency in-patient care, a full operating theatre and GP services. Our nutritional centre has served thousands of children, saving many hundreds of lives. Our two schools offer primary and secondary education to children from 14 communities and we undertake community development work, which has helped provide clean water and sanitation to more than 15,000 people.
The way we talk about what we do is by using the word HEALS. This word stands for:
Healthcare
Economic Sustainability
Academic Development
Leadership Development
Spiritual Development
HEALS
Healthcare
We provide the following:
Surgery / Operating theatre
Outpatient department
Pharmacy
Maternity ward
Laboratory
Nutrition center
Mental health
Public health
Record keeping
Each year we see:
360 number of critical surgeries per year
120 babies delivered every month
Treating 495 malnourished children per year
Economic sustainability
We provide the following:
Youth entrepreneurship
Water filtration
Tree planting
Catalyzing businesses
We Employ 320 adults
We are Planning to provide clean water for the children at the King’s school, our patients, our staff and the surrounding communities.
We have 7,000 trees planted, with 1,000 planned. The tress provide fruit, shade and timber and reduce carbon emissions
We develop youth businesses, selling school stationery and T shirts and we have a Pepper business.
Academic Development
We started the King’s school in 2003.
We started the Tehillah school in 2013.
Over 350 children have graduated and moved on to Senior high schools and beyond to university, training college and the workplace.
We now run two fully functioning schools with 560 students total.
23 students graduated to secondary education last year.
We have just built a library and nine new classrooms.
Leadership Development
In 2022 we launched a youth employment program.
Youth can earn tokens for bicycles, uniforms and other necessities.
20 youth serving 40 younger children
7 hours / week of leadership development, music, and youth entrepreneurship.
Teens learn how to BRING MAGIC and teach 3 classes: Bass, Drums, Keyboards.
As the younger children grow up, they become paid teen employees.
The only teen-led music school in Northern Ghana.
We have a partnership with Nottingham University hospital trust, training hospital staff.
Teachers continue to get ongoing leadership training.
Spiritual Development
Children have opportunity to learn worship songs and tap into their innate sense of worship.
Through the music school, an entire culture of youth worship is developing.
We run a Bible curriculum for students.
We have large group christian assembly times.
12 churches have been planted.
120 one on one spiritual meetings happen each month.
We're a UK Charity, established 2019
Many UK charities, churches and individuals have supported The King's Village, and to improve direct communication and support a UK charity was established in 2019. The Trustees of the UK Charity are:
Terry Carpenter - Terry along with his wife Ann have visited The King's Village on 10 occasions. They helped pioneer the nutrition centre which has treated over 5000 malnourished children
John Fahy - John worked in the chemical industry for 12 years and has led Eagle’s Nest Church, in Arnold, Nottingham for 22 years. He is also the leader of the NG Church Network
Julian Bond - Julian is Head of IT for a UK retail and manufacturing company. He is also a Trustee of various UK charities.