Love for Humanity
We are a foundation for sustainable projects which is mainly a community empowerment program aimed at facilitating development projects to create opportunities for rural marginalised youth. An initiative founded by the Ghanaian artist and writer Seyram Agbleze whose practice mainly advocates for social justice. The foundation is considered a next stage progression of his practice- moving from raising awareness about the problem to now helping address the problem (community marginalisation) with creative solutions that alleviate poverty for human dignity. Projects are funded by proceeds from his art practice but is now expanding to collaborations from well meaning institutions and individuals. The foundation is of the firm belief impactful development needs to have a bottom up approach instead of the usual up to bottom approach with government interventions leading to bad results. Most rural communities in Africa are normally neglected by the governments and do not get their fair share of the national cake aside the external factors faced with respect to unfair economic exchanges with the outside world which stem from historical antecedents. Africa’s issues of economic hardship, insecurity, illegal migration amongst others can only be mitigated by addressing root causes. In present times their plight is compounded by factors such as the negative impacts of climate change and rural communities are most affected. We aspire to bring meaningful progress into the lives of people in these communities.
Love for Humanity are stepping in to do things differently by putting the people at the heart of its operations. We believe in the multiplier effect of improving the livelihoods in deprived communities directly. The underpinning philosophy of our operations come from the African philosophy of Adinkra Interconnectedness and Ubuntu that highlight our shared humanity.
Mission: Achieving higher purpose by employing resources effectively for greater impact and better world by collaborating with partners.
Core objective: To use strategic advocacy to facilitate funds for community projects as a way of giving back and alleviating communities that have been systematically deprived and marginalized with unfair economic exchanges of the world. An organisation for impact not for profit and not charity.
Project location: Ghana
Vision: Making the world a better place one step at a time.
Motto: Service to humanity.
Projects
Current Projects:
Asidor: A community enterprise program aimed at supporting rural youth enterprises with low-interest loans and guidance to meet business objectives and monitor progress. An app is also available Asidor App link : https://apps.apple.com/gh/app/asidor/id6447971374 which aims to connect skilled workers to customers in need of their services this is necessary because many of them lack resources to hire space for physical offices to attract clients.We have had thousands of downloads so far helping facilitate more work opportunities for many skilled workers
Honey 360: A beekeeping program providing opportunities for youth to increase their source of income. Beehives, equipment, work gear, and training is provided to make them suppliers of premium honey which is always in demand and a good source of revenue.
Voluntourism: This initiative brings volunteers and tourists aboard to have a unique memorable stay in vibrant communities, a rich experience that expands one’s worldview. We also use this program to invite potential collaborators to visit and get a first-hand experience and to also see communities where they will like to have an impact.
Future Projects:
Solar 360: To empower deprived communities with clean and affordable energy to improve livelihoods. Project in development.
Community soap factory: To use waste wax residues from a future expanded Honey 360 project as raw materials for soap production to increase opportunities for community inhabitants
Cultural Centre: To preserve indigenous knowledge, community art and craft manifestations. Also includes library to foster love for literature and arts in younger generation which is in decline.
