Access To Basics (ATB) - Accra, Ghana

Access To Basics
he passion behind the formation of ACCESS TO BASICS (ATB) is to uplift vulnerable and underprivileged children and their families from extreme poverty, by facilitating their access to essential and basic needs. This vision came from the Founder & Executive Director, Madam Sarah Ntoh Ashu Davis’s background in development studies graduate programme and over 15-years of work as a development practitioner with the United Nations, Peacekeeping Mission with MONUSC, and other international organizations, in deprived communities in some countries in Africa that afforded her first-hand knowledge of how economic deprivation and parental hardships in financing their children’s education, tend to compromise the education of girls.

In this regard, our commitment to gender and  

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to justice, is underpinned by the intersectionality of diverse needs, experiences, and leadership of those most impacted by discrimination and oppression. This allows for the attainment of equitable distribution of resources, access, and opportunities while ensuring equal outcomes for all.

It is based on the backdrop of this social injustice against the girl-child, deep-rooted by poverty that Sarah begun ACCESS TO BASICS (ATB) as a personal project in 2011 and has since then supported many children (girls and boys) with educational needs, and school fee scholarships from basic to tertiary levels.

Empowering women, girls, and men, including people with disabilities with business capital, and to small scale farmers, But over the years, the demand on her personal resources, in response to these mammoth needs, has become very overwhelming thus, pushed her to formalize in 2023, in order to be well organized and be able to work in partnership with other stakeholders, and organizations, to contribute towards pursuing her vision of “a world where underprivileged children and families are uplifted from extreme poverty, and both women and men have equal rights and opportunities”.