About us

About Access To Basics

The 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 MONUSCO, 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 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.

ACCESS TO BASICS (ATB) is set up to promote the education of underprivileged children, especially girls, school drop-outs, and the physically challenged persons in deprived communities of Ghana. The organisation does this by empowering marginalised women and girls, and persons living with disability (pwds), as well as unemployed youths with skill trainings and financial support so they become economically self-reliant, have a voice, and fully participate in decision-making across all levels of society. Our strategic objectives are linked with but not limited to Goals 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 10, 16 and 17 of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Starting as a personal project in 2011, ACCESS TO BASICS, has since supported many children (girls and boys) with their educational needs through fee, textbooks, and uniform scholarship support from basic to tertiary levels; empowerment of women and men with business start-up capital; and financial support to small-scale farmers. Over the years, these challenging community needs and the overwhelming demand on her personal resources, culminated in the formalisation of ATB as an NGO 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”.

Our Vision

ACCESS TO BASICS (ATB) envisions a world where underprivileged children, women, and youth are uplifted from extreme poverty, and both women and men have equal rights and opportunities.

Our Mission

ACCESS TO BASICS (ATB) is a grassroots non-profit organization that strives to alleviate poverty and reduce inequalities through promotion of access to and quality education, health, women’s empowerment and livelihoods, advocacy and policy influencing in communities in Ghana, and other countries in Africa.

Our Objectives

To promote access to and quality education through advocacy and targeted interventions in schools and communities.
To promote access to reproductive and quality health care for all, especially women and children.
To empower the vulnerable and underprivileged (women, girls, youths, and the physically challenged) in deprived communities so as to improve their quality of life/livelihood.
To create awareness of sanitation and hygiene in schools and communities while working to resolve the issues arising.
To builds critical partnerships to leverage social and entrepreneurial interventions for poverty alleviation, promotion of quality education, quality healthcare, women’s empowerment and sustainable livelihoods.