Star Child Care Foundation · Ghana
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A Ghanaian child-welfare organisation

Every child
belongs to
a family.

Across six regions of Ghana we work with families before they break apart — paying school fees, treating malnutrition, and helping caregivers earn a living — so that no child has to grow up in an institution to be fed, taught and loved.

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Children supported
1,248
Partner communities
26
Working since
2011
Three children in yellow and brown school uniforms walking to school along a red dirt road
A teacher kneels beside a boy at a wooden desk, guiding his hand as he writes
Literacy catch-up class, Eastern Region

Most children in Ghana’s orphanages have a living parent or relative.

Our name comes from Nsoromma, the Adinkra star — the child of the heavens, watched over through the night.

Poverty separates families far more often than death does. A hospital bill, a failed harvest, one term of unpaid fees — and a child is sent away to be raised by strangers.

We work upstream of that moment. Star Child Care Foundation was founded in Koforidua in 2011 by teachers and community nurses who kept meeting the same child twice: once in the classroom, and again on a list of children about to be given up.

Four programmes, one purpose

Each programme removes one of the reasons a Ghanaian family gives up a child. They are designed to be handed over — every community we enter has a date we plan to leave.

Pupils on wooden benches raising their hands in a rural classroom

School that does not stop

Fees, uniforms, exercise books and exam registration for 1,248 children — plus after-school catch-up classes for those who lost a year.

  • Termly fee guarantee
  • Literacy and numeracy catch-up
  • Junior high exam sponsorship
A community health nurse weighing an infant at an outdoor clinic while mothers wait

Health and nutrition

Monthly growth monitoring with district health workers, therapeutic feeding for malnourished under-fives, and health insurance for every child on our roll.

  • Under-five weigh-ins
  • Therapeutic feeding
  • NHIS registration
A caregiver sits on a low bench in a compound courtyard with three young children

Family-based care

Tracing relatives, preparing kinship carers and supervising reunification — with a social worker visiting every placed child for two full years.

  • Family tracing
  • Kinship carer training
  • Two-year follow-up
Community members seated in a circle under a large mango tree during a village meeting

Livelihoods for caregivers

Savings groups, seed capital and business coaching for grandmothers, aunts and single mothers, so the household income survives the next shock.

  • Village savings groups
  • Start-up grants
  • Farm input support

What the last year added up to

1,248children kept in school for all three terms
94%of supported pupils completed junior high
187children reunited with family or kin
312caregivers earning through savings groups

Figures cover January to December 2025 and are checked against school registers and district health records. Our annual report and audited accounts are published each March. Request the 2025 report

A girl in a yellow and brown school uniform holding her exercise books, standing against a mud-brick wall

Akosua, 12 — Eastern Region

When my father died they told my mother I should go and live at the children’s home in town. I did not want to go. Now the fees are paid and I sleep in my own house.

Akosua’s mother joined a savings group in 2023 and now sells prepared food at the junction. Akosua sat her final primary exams last June and wants to train as a midwife.

Read more stories from our communities

Where we work

We are registered and headquartered in Koforidua, with field offices in Accra and Tamale. Every placement is made jointly with the Department of Social Welfare in that district.

  • Eastern11 communities
  • Greater Accra5 communities
  • Volta4 communities
  • Ashanti3 communities
  • Northern2 communities
  • Upper East1 community

See every region and field office

Children playing football on a red dirt pitch at sunset in a Ghanaian village
Evening in Asokore, one of eleven Eastern Region communities.

Give once, or stand with a child every month

Gifts are received in Ghana cedis and US dollars. 86 pesewas of every cedi reaches programme work; the rest covers audit, transport and the three staff who run it.

GH₵ 150 · $12

One term of books

Exercise books, pens, a school bag and the term’s examination fee for one pupil.

Give GH₵ 150

Most chosen

GH₵ 400 · $32

A month of school and care

Fees, uniform, a daily meal and a social worker’s monthly home visit for one child.

Give monthly

GH₵ 1,800 · $145

Keep a family together

Seed capital and coaching for one caregiver’s small business — the whole household.

Give GH₵ 1,800

Other ways to help

We are small on purpose. The support that helps most is steady, and the partnerships that help most are long.

  • Partner with us

    Schools, churches, diaspora associations and companies fund a community for three years at a time.

    How partnerships work

  • Volunteer in Ghana

    Qualified teachers, social workers and nurses join field placements of six weeks or more.

    Volunteer requirements

  • Fundraise where you are

    Run, bake, sing or sponsor a walk. We will send photographs of the community you funded.

    Ways to fundraise