SIGC is a Ghanaian NGO reducing teenage pregnancy, fighting hunger, promoting health, and creating youth employment in underserved communities across the Eastern Region.
Teenagers Mentored Annually
Health Screenings Per Year
Vulnerable Households Supported
Youth Trained in Handicraft & Entrepreneurship
Core Programs Across the Eastern Region
Sustainable Initiative for Global Change (SIGC) is a registered non-governmental organization headquartered in Accra with field operations in the Eastern Region of Ghana. We work at the intersection of youth empowerment, health, food security, and economic self-reliance. Our programs reach teenagers, vulnerable women, persons with disabilities, and entire communities through structured, evidence-based interventions.
Read Our Full StoryEach program addresses a distinct community need — together, they create lasting change.
Structured school-based mentorship, reproductive health education, and life skills training to keep teenagers in school and reduce teenage pregnancy rates. We also support teens who dropped out of school due to pregnancy to continue their education.
Career seminars, counseling sessions, vocational pathway education, and internship placements to give young people clear direction and opportunities.
Training teenagers in bead making, tailoring, basket weaving, soap making, and gypsum mold production. Building youth cooperatives and linking products to markets.
Food distribution, community food banks, backyard gardening projects, small-scale farming support, and nutrition education to build household food security.
Free community health screenings including blood pressure, diabetes, eye testing, prostate cancer, and HIV testing. Delivered through partnerships with health professionals.
Skills training, micro-enterprise support, financial literacy, and assistive device provision for persons with disabilities, widows, single mothers, and vulnerable women.
Educational scholarships for children from basic school through junior high school to university. We invest in the next generation by removing financial barriers to education.
