The Our Generation Voluntary Organisation (OGVO) was founded in 2004 in order to enable young people to use their leisure time for the benefit of the wider community.

This service took the form of participation in volunteering/work-camps for the consciousness of various community development schemes. Teams of young men and women crossed ethnic boundaries to work in other areas to bring new life and ideas to isolated places in both rural and urban Ghana with a view to blend the country and to develop it.

OGVO is non-political, non-religious and non-profit making organisation. Its membership is open to all those (interested persons) that wants help put a smile on the faces of deprived people in Ghana irrespective of nationality, religion, race, political affiliation, colour, sex or educational background.

OGVO as an organisation believes in helping the helpless and needy in society so almost all the projects we undertake are geared towards that. We also believe that through these, individual participants will learn about Africa and our ways of doing things.

 

OUR VALUES

Integrity, Fairness, Mutual Respect, Teamwork & Collaboration, Creativity and Excellence that are never compromised.

 

OUR VISION

To facilitate the development of communities in Ghana to reach a level that is most dignifying to the total and holistic progress of mankind.

 

OUR MISSION

To foster cross-cultural understanding while pressing challenges facing various communities in Ghana and develop practical, efficient and relevant solutions to these challenges, and hold up services to youth, educators, volunteers, institutions and gap year organisations.

 

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:

1. To bring together all people interested in volunteering or voluntary workcamps with the object of fostering a spirit of common understanding among all classes of people and to give young people the opportunity to use their leisure time in the service of the community by participating in community development schemes, such as building of schools, health and other Welfare Centres and generally to organize and assist Local and National efforts in these and similar projects.

2. To recruit participants, such as students, graduates for Exchange Visitor educational, culttural, work & travel, and training programs.