External Funding
HiChale has received funding from the German Embassy Accra to support our community project in Funsi
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Hi Chale! In Ghana everyone is a Chale – female, male or others… especially when you are approachable and friendly. We are HiChale, a Ghana-based NGO, located in Kalba and Funsi. We like to be approachable and friendly, and to develop together… Chale!
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HiChale 1st anniversary
HiChale successfully celebrated its 1st anniversary with series of events to mark the occasion
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Boreholes in Kalba Area
We are inviting suitable contractors for the construction of three boreholes in the Kalba area
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Social support
Social support is one of our thematic areas. HiChale donated to 20 needy people who genuinely struggle to afford basic needs such as food and other household essentials
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Our Office
Our office is now open and some work has started already. Visit us for collaboration!
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Funsi Grand Launching
Join us in Funsi on Saturday, 25-Mar-23, for the second Grand Launching Festival of the HiChale NGO!
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Kalba Grand Launching
Join us in Kalba on Saturday, 18-Mar-23, for the Grand Launching Festival of the HiChale NGO!
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HiChale develops sustainable programs and services responsive to needs in the areas of education, healthcare, water supply, infrastructure and social support projects, focusing on communities and individuals in Kalba and Funsi, Northern Ghana.
Our history and experience is based on more than 40 years in development and partnership in Northern Ghana. While the NGO itself was founded as a legal entity in 2023, the work and activities of its team lead back to the end of the 1970s when Fr. Bernhard Hagen started his friendship and collaboration with the people in Northern Ghana. Since then hundreds of friendships have been made and thousands of collaborations and projects have been developed. The team looks back at the implementation of development projects with a value of more than two Million Euros during the last 4 decades.
The HiChale NGO is the continuation and evolution of this friendship with the mission of developing sustainable projects. While keeping the core values of the Church’s support for human beings, HiChale merges them with a modern and liberal approach to society and – most importantly – is headed by local talents that benefited from this kind of collaboration in the past and are eager to invest in the future of communities in the Northern part of Ghana.
HiChale is based in Kalba, Savannah Region, and active in this community as well as in Funsi, Upper West region, where it collaborates with the Ghanaian artist Wiyaala.
Its Board of Directors is a diverse group of individuals with valuable background in terms of leadership, local knowledge, development experience, networking and funding. The NGO is backed up through a strong partnership with the German associations Aktionskreis Pater Hagen and Rüt'n'Rock, which serve as the financial backbone of the NGO based on which further funds and collaborations are developed.
Vision & Mission
HiChale strives to enable the people of Northern Ghana to develop themselves and their region sustainably and based on friendship, with fair and equal treatment.
This vision of HiChale serves as a focal point for the organization’s mission in Ghana and will guide all aspects of the organization’s development of programs and services as well as what needs to be accomplished in order to achieve sustainable and quality growth as a Ghanaian based non-governmental-organization (NGO) with international partnerships:
HiChale exists to develop sustainable programs and services responsive to needs in the areas of education, healthcare, water supply, infrastructure and social support projects, focusing on communities and individuals in Northern Ghana.
- Our Team: Provide a safe, challenging and friendly work environment that allows people to realize their value and worth, while contributing to the betterment of the organization.
- Program and Services Portfolio: Develop programs and services that are directly responsive to the needs of the villages, communities and areas we work in.
- Partnerships, Collaborations and Relationships: Nurture a healthy network of individuals, organizations, funders, government agencies, countries and communities that work towards the common goal of further developing the Northern part of Ghana.
- Financial Resources: Never seize to identify small, medium and large financial opportunities that allow the organization to be programmatically and fiscally responsible.
- Infrastructure and Capacity: Ensure the growth and development of the organization is comparable to its leadership and management.
- Public Appearance: Be a communicator and multiplier within and outside Ghana, addressing the needs of the people in Northern Ghana, as well as the mission and activities of HiChale.
Our Values
HiChale believes in friendship and assuming goodness. People develop best as individuals, teams or as a community, in a diverse and fair environment with equal opportunities, based on integrity, trust and accountability for their actions.
Participation, continuous learning and sustainable growth are key pillars of our development goals, which are guided by the 17 SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) of the United Nations.
The members of HiChale focus on serving the people of their communities with quality teamwork, as leaders and role models while having fun and passion for what they are doing.
Location & Contact
The office of HiChale is located behind the Police Station of Kalba town in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba district of Savannah region-Ghana, with digital address: SS-08988-1024
Our Managing Director Emmanuel Dery Kuusani is happy to be contacted on phone numbers (+233)-243836084 / 265213733 and via email: info@hichale.org / dery.kuusani@hichale.org