Nabdam District · Upper East · Ghana
Nabdam is the poorestdistrict in Ghana.We start here.
Ramah Upliftment Foundation is a locally led Ghanaian nonprofit working with widows and vulnerable children in Nabdam. Our first work is three days in December 2026: 25 widows, 30 children, and a public report within 30 days.
Illustrative photograph of a Sahelian compound. Not taken in Nabdam, and not of Ramah participants or programmes.
Logre · Nabdam District
The poorest recorded community in Ghana's poorest district.
Nabdam is 261st of Ghana's 261 districts. Inside it, Logre is the poorest locality the Ghana Statistical Service recorded. That is the whole reason for starting here rather than somewhere easier.
Logre
Where the pilot begins
94.4%
Nabdam District
261st of 261 districts
68.6%
Ghana
National rate
24.3%
Multidimensional poverty incidence. Ghana Statistical Service, 2021 census basis. Logre is the poorest of the twenty largest localities GSS published for Nabdam.
Three days. Fifty-five people. One public report.
Three days in Logre over the Christmas break, with 25 widows and 30 children. A pilot, not a launch: small enough to do properly, and small enough to account for in public, cedi by cedi. The dates are set with the chiefs, elders and the Assembly before they are announced anywhere.
GHS 205 carries one person through the three days. Places are capped at exactly 25 and 30: surplus giving moves to the next cohort, disclosed at the moment you give, never to inventing beneficiaries. An unsold place never means an excluded person, because Ramah runs the pilot regardless and covers the difference from general funds.
Survive · Protect · Earn
Nobody climbs in one step.
A widow does not receive a one-off training. She enters a staged pathway: health and food first, then her children in school, then savings and a trade chosen for demand that already exists.
- Health and food
- CHPS-linked volunteers, quarterly outreach, lean-season food security.
- Children in school
- Distance, supplies, hygiene and hunger. Not fees.
- Savings and a trade
- Savings groups first, then shea and soap with market linkage.
Widows first, because the data says so.
In Nabdam, female-headed households are poorer than male-headed ones: 71.0% against 67.8%. Roughly four in five people work in subsistence, rain-fed farming, with a lean season running March to July.
Cohort 1 trains two trades that form one value chain, shea processing and soap making, so that what one group produces the next group can use.
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Join the founding donors
Secure giving is not open yet. Founding donors are the first invited to give the moment it is, and the first to receive the pilot report.
- First to give when payments open
- A personal note from the founder
- Honest field updates, including what does not work
No spam. Launch milestones and the secure giving link when it is ready, nothing else.
Start where the list ends.
Decades of development policy favoured the south. Nabdam is where that arithmetic runs out. Ramah is a locally led Ghanaian organisation starting here, and publishing what happens.
“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; ensure justice for those being crushed.”Proverbs 31:8 (NLT)