Nabdam District · Upper East · Ghana
Nabdam is the poorestdistrict in Ghana.We start there.
261st of 261 districts · Ghana Statistical Service
Ramah is preparing its first work with widows and their children in Nabdam. 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.
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First field work
Three-day pilot, 18 to 20 December 2026
Where
Logre, Nabdam District, Upper East
Reporting
Public report within 30 days of the pilot
Why here
The poorest recorded community in the poorest district.
Nabdam is 261st of Ghana's 261 districts. Inside it, Logre is the poorest locality the Ghana Statistical Service recorded. That is where the pilot begins, and it is the whole reason for starting there rather than somewhere easier.
The district has one public senior high school and no technical or vocational institution at all. Employment deprivation drives more of its poverty than any other factor.
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, Multidimensional Poverty Report: Nabdam District, on a 2021 census basis. Logre is the poorest locality recorded among the twenty largest GSS published for the district.
18 to 20 December 2026 · Logre
Three days. Fifty-five people. One public report.
This is a pilot, not a launch. It is small on purpose: small enough to do properly, and small enough to account for in public, cedi by cedi.
- 0118 December
Traditional protocol
Entry through chiefs, elders and the Assembly. Nothing happens in Logre before permission does.
- 0219 December
The first Widow Circle
25 widows. Listening, registration for the February savings group, and the start of a relationship.
- 0320 December
Back to school
School supply packages for 30 vulnerable children, before Ghana's third term begins.
55
people, capped at 25 widows and 30 children
GHS 205
carries one person through the three days
30 days
to a public report, with income and spend
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. Ramah runs the pilot regardless and covers unsold places from general funds.
Be part of the beginning
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.
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 with buyers already lined up.
- 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 confirmed buyers.
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.
Read the programme designStart 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 there, and publishing what happens.
“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; ensure justice for those being crushed.”Proverbs 31:8 (NLT)