CARING VOLUNTEERS NETWORK-CAVNET

Caring Volunteers Network is a local-based Non-Governmental Organization operating in the Upper West Region of Ghana, its headquarters located in the Wa Municipality, adjacent the Deputy Regional Ministers house at Chorkor-Sombo. The organization has been established to bring help, good health and development to our society, especially, the poor and needy in the rural areas. The organization also identifies brilliant but needy children and assists them in their educational pursuit. In addition, the organization is committed to finding lasting solutions to the perennial and pervasive poverty problems in the region and Ghana as a whole. CAVNET’s team believes the key to fighting poverty is advocating education for all, promoting healthy lifestyles, improving sanitation and environmental sustainability and ensuring food security.

OUR VISION

A world where no child would be deprived of education, health, livelihood and an environment free of destruction

OUR MISSION

To be an international NGO that is committed, caring and consistent in the provision of educational support, health and livelihood to children and communities at large under a friendly environment.

OUR VALUES

To solve challenges concerning issues affecting health, education, water and sanitation, livelihood/agriculture and advocacy to promote holistic development and functioning of the human being.

Our specific objectives are:

1. To identify brilliant but needy children and assist them in their educational pursuit.
2. To promote girl child education in Northern Ghana.
3. To facilitate the improvement of the general health status of communities.
4. To support and help harness community initiatives for quality education.
5. To contribute to the enhancement and sustenance of the livelihoods security of communities and also maintain environmental friendliness for better human growth and development.
6. To support research and other community advocacy initiatives especially violence against women and governance.
7. To raise, mobilize and disburse funds and other resources for the promotion of the organization.
8. To promote or assist in the promotion of any organization or company or other bodies having objectives similar to that of the organization.