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November 18, 2021

Team H.E.AD Wins Regional Sanitation Hackathon

Healthy Environment Advocates have emerged winners of the Regional Sanitation Hackathon held yesterday. The team went head to head with five others from Ghana and Nigeria who pitched their innovations to help solve the region’s sanitation problems.

November 12, 2021

Ghana’s youth pitch digital and non-digital ideas to find innovative solutions to open defecation

Three teams out of ten, have emerged as winners with their solutions to end open defecation in Ghana. In a three-day hackathon called IDEAS HACK “21”, ten teams made up of young people under the age of 24, met to pitch digital and non-digital, functioning and sustainable solutions to end open defecation in their communities.

June 15, 2021

Let’s End Child labour Now!

Curious Minds Ghana has applauded European Union for marking the 2021 year of Elimination of Child Labour with a sing-along concert last Friday at Alisa Hotel in Accra.

February 27, 2021

CURIOUS MINDS HOSTS VOWAC

The Executive Director of Voices of Women and Children with Disabilities in Ghana (VOWAC) – Madam Beatrice Akua Mahmood, has called on the government to help with efforts at empowering women and children with disabilities through targeted skills training.

August 28, 2020

Curious Minds launches #VoteNotFight

CYIB - Curious Minds, a youth-led non-governmental advocacy organization working to ensure that all children and youth are well informed and meaningfully participate in decision-making that affects their lives at local, national and international levels has launched a peace campaign dubbed “Vote Not Fight” with support from RFSU.

February 1, 2020

CURIOUS MINDS SUPPORTS GIRL BOSS INITIATIVE

As part of efforts to reduce unsafe abortions among young girls and create an enabling environment that supports adolescent girls and grants them access to safe services; Curious Minds has joined Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana (PPAG)

November 21, 2019

The State Of The Ghanaian Child: One Generation After Adoption Of The UN Convention On The Rights Of The Child

Many of the children of the 1990s are now locked up in poverty-choked urban slums, daring and dying across deserts and seas to Europe, left to rot in poor rural cultures or settled for less in low-earning occupations of an inundated informal economy that leaves our dear country still in the abyss of mediocrity in spite of enviable potential.

November 14, 2019

KEY NOTE ADDRESS BY MAVIS NAA KORLEY ARYEE AT #NAIROBISUMMIT (#ICPD25)

"How do I begin to talk about 25 years when I am younger than that? Thankfully, here I am as an active leader of ICPD actions, to make things happen for others in our unfinished business.

October 11, 2019

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL: CYIB-CURIOUS MINDS REFLECTS ON 30 YEARS OF PROGRESS

This year the day is celebrated under the theme “GirlForce – Unscripted and Unstoppable”; this year also marks thirty (30) years of the Convention of the Rights of the Child’s adoption with Ghana as first country in the world to ratify the treaty