Conscious Collaborative programs are designed through a participatory process that starts with community research, discussion, planning and implementation.

All of our programs are operated by local youth who are seeking to create a positive change in their community.

Our SAFE Program (Safe Alternative For Education) started during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to provide a safe space for children to come and learn. The program provided open-air classrooms for children to come and learn from teachers, who were suddenly unemployed and in need of alternative income.

Schools in Ghana were closed for almost a year at the onset of the pandemic. During this time, children were at home without any access to educational materials. Being at home during this time also made children more susceptible to child labor, abuse and neglect, as parents were also struggling to provide for their basic needs. SAFE Program was able to not only provide children with continuous education, but also a place for them to come outside of their homes and reduce the burden on their parents.

SAFE Program continues today with open-air classrooms providing free classes on Saturdays to any child in the community who wishes to attend.

The Youth Center is designed as a dynamic space that offers programming from vocational skills training for youth who were not able to attend high school to highly technical computer-skills programs for college graduates who are unemployed.

The Youth Center is focused on leadership building and entrepreneurship training to build capacity of youth to be able to put their ideas, dreams and skills in to action for themselves and their communities. A major component of the Youth Center is to bring the benefits of the interconnected globalized world to communities that have not been able to access its benefits. By leveraging connections across the globe, the Youth Center will engage with entrepreneurs, experts and visionaries who can provide virtual train-the-trainer sessions in various fields of interest.

The Youth Center is a space by the youth, and for the youth, of Shama District. Due to this, the programs will shift and change based one the needs of the community. To learn more about why the Youth Center is being builr and to hear from the visionary youth behind it, view our documentary The Youth Are Rising, coming soon.

Previous PROGRAMS

 Women's livelihoods & entrepenuership

Conscious Collaborative’s Women’s Livelihoods Program focused on ensuring women from vulnerable households are able to increase their capacity to provide for their children. Women who are primarily from the fishing communities, Abuesi and Aboadze which are located in the Western Region of Ghana, that operate their own small business and have a marginal status in the community, especially female-headed households and widows, are eligible for the program.

Women must be engaged in an income generating activity and prove efforts to provide for their children’s education in order to be considered. Current women in the program are engaged in fishmongering and selling provisions as livelihoods. Women are engaged with on a bi-weekly basis by the Program Manager to discuss profits and loss in their business and general struggles they are facing in supporting their families. All women in the program currently have students in the Education Program and have agreed to join a savings program to transition to paying their children’s school fees.

Anansi International

Anansi International was a pilot program under Conscious Collaborative with a social enterprise model of creating digital jobs for young adults from disadvantaged communities suffering from unemployment. Anansi International was piloted in partnership with Sue Shalley, CEO of Field Services Unlimited.