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Lead Ghana partner
Salormey Volunteers Group
Our partners on the ground from the very beginning — facilitating every mission with the able assistance of Fred Frempong and Rebeca Lago.
Nonprofit · Medical Missions · Ghana
Bringing hope to underserved communities in the eastern region of Ghana, one mission at a time!
Anidaso Health is a nonprofit group dedicated to medical missions and supplies for the undeserved in Ghana, West Africa. We also support education, clean water projects, and orphanages. Anidaso means hope in Twi, the main Ghanaian language.
AnidasoHope Since 2006
Est. 2006Atibie · Koforidua · Ghana12 Missions · + 100's of villages served and 1000+ free surgeries completed
12
Missions completed
since 2006
1000+
Surgeries since 2006
skin grafts, hernias, more
100+
Villages reached
outreach & screening
600+
Audiology patients
in our 2007 mission
100's
Of volunteers since 2006
doctors, nurses, more
About us
A small group of volunteers, returning again and again to where help is needed most.
Anidaso Health is a nonprofit group dedicated to helping with medical missions and supplies to the underserved in Ghana, West Africa. We also provide school supplies and support for other endeavors such as education, clean water projects, and orphanages.
We have completed twelve missions in 20 years to Ghana. Each trip is facilitated by our long-time partners on the ground — Salormey Volunteers Group — and supported by physicians, nurses, therapists, and volunteers who donate their skills, time, and money to make the work possible.
“Anidaso” means hope in Twi, the main Ghanaian language. Hope is what we bring — and what we receive in return.
The principles that drive us
Care, dignity, consistency and durable partnerships on the ground.
Our work is shaped by what our Ghanaian partners and the communities we visit tell us they need. We focus on treatment that is otherwise out of reach, on infrastructure that lasts beyond a mission trip, and on relationships that bring us back year after year.
Medical missions
Free medical treatment outreach across villages, with diabetes and hypertension screening for adults and prophylactic treatments for children. Wounds and skin infections treated; walkers, crutches, and wheelchairs provided when needed.
Surgical care
Specialist surgeries that, due to lack of equipment, specialists, or access, would not otherwise take place — skin grafts, thyroidectomies, lipoma removals, hernia repairs, hysterectomies, c-sections and more.
Clean water
Water filters delivered to villages and contributions toward well and pump projects — partnering with Safewater Trust to make clean, safe water accessible where it is needed most.
Education & orphan support
Funds and gifts donated to orphanages, with continuing support for some of the orphans through their secondary education. Educational materials donated to local health facilities and communities.
May 2025 · Featured mission
19 volunteers. Two weeks. Over 120+ Free Surgeries, screenings, and eight villages served.
In May 2025, a group of nineteen dedicated volunteers from Indiana, Wisconsin and Illinois — including 3 Surgeons, 3 Internal Medicine physicians, 1 Anesthesiologist, 2 CRNA's, 2 Surgical PA, 4 nurses, 3 family nurse practitioners and a high school teacher/ task manager, — joined our 12th mission to Ghana. We brought medicine, surgical supplies and medical supplies, dispensing them freely to patients throughout our stay. The surgeons performed over 120+ free surgeries.
We worked again at Kwahu Government Hospital in Atibie, where our dedicated surgical team performed more than 120 + surgeries in two weeks. The general and trauma surgeons handled skin grafts, thyroidectomies, lipoma removals, and hernia repairs, aided by surgical equipment and instruments brought to Ghana by our team members and the assistance of United Airlines — equipment later donated to the hospital.
Our medical team ran outreach in eight villages — Oboyan, Bukuruwa, Mangoase, Kwaku Safo, and Hweehwee among them — caring for a variety of illnesses, screening adults for diabetes and hypertension, providing prophylactic treatments for children, and treating wounds and skin infections.
Surgical theatre
Based at the Kwahu Government Hospital theatre; supported locally by hospital staff.
Medical outreach
Eight villages visited; screenings and prophylactic treatment for children and adults.
Donations
Clothes, shoes, medical equipment, educational materials donated to communities.
Clean water
Filters delivered to 2 villages; contribution to a well and pump project.
The need · Ghana
Health care is very variable throughout Ghana.
Urban centers are better served and contain most of the hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies in the country. Rural areas often have no modern health care — patients rely on traditional medicine, or travel great distances to be seen. Our missions aim to bring specialist care to the places it cannot reach on its own.
Physicians per 100,000 people
15
Ghana
313
USA
Nurses per 100,000 people
93
Ghana
900
USA
Population with access to safe water
50%
Ghana
100%
OECD avg
Population with regular sanitation
30.3%
Ghana
99%
OECD avg
According to the World Health Organization, the most common diseases in Ghana include cholera, pulmonary tuberculosis, anthrax, chicken pox, infectious hepatitis, malaria, tetanus, pertussis, trachoma, measles and schistosomiasis — most of which are preventable, and many of which are waterborne.
Partners
We are who we are because of who we work with.
Every mission is a coordinated effort between Ghanaian teams, US-based volunteers, and partner charities who donate equipment, time, and expertise. We are grateful to all of them.
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Volunteer coordination
Original Volunteers (UK)
Joined us in 2013 with marvelous on-the-ground support across our outreach work.
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Medical supplies
Children of Abraham
Interfaith organization (United Methodist Church of Hammond & NW Indiana Islamic Center of Merrillville) shipping surgical equipment and supplies to hospitals in need.
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Community programs
Cheerful Hearts
Partnering on community-level programs supporting children and families across our service areas.
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Clean water
Safewater Trust
Partnering on filters, wells and pump projects so villages have safe, reliable access to clean water.
Where we serve
Hospitals, schools, and orphanages across Eastern Ghana.
We’ve given service across several locations — most often in Koforidua, Nkawkaw and Atibie, where dedicated local professionals make our work possible.
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Kwahu Government Hospital
Atibie, near Mpraeso · Eastern Region
A government district hospital serving more than 230,000 people. Male, female, gynecology, maternity, and children's wards; two surgical theatres; a lab; and outpatient departments including Casualty (ER), HIV, antenatal, ophthalmology and OPD. We've worked here across every mission.
- District population served
- 230k+
- Doctor to patient ratio
- ≈ 1 : 32,000
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Koforidua School for the Deaf
Koforidua · Eastern Region
Audiology and hearing services for students — including hearing aid fittings, ear cleaning, and vision checks. In 2007, our audiologists saw 600+ patients and gave away 200+ hearing aids plus a year of batteries.
- Patients seen, 2007
- 600+
- Hearing aids fitted
- 200+
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To-No-Mi & Bless the Children Orphanages
Eastern Region · Ghana
We helped support some of the orphans in their secondary education, and contribute funds, gifts, clothes, shoes, and supplies during our early missions.
- Orphanages supported
- 2
- Education sponsorship
- 2006-2013
Our missions
12 trips, since 2006
Trips were made in the fall of 2008, 2010, and 2013, and in the spring of 2006, 2007, and 2012 2016, 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2025 — each one made possible by our Ghanaian partners and the generosity of donors and volunteers.
- 2006Mission
First mission
Drs. Ted Thachenkary and Mark Kevin, with pharmacist Lisa Leong, travel to Ghana to volunteer their medical services and deliver supplies.
- 2007Mission
Two trips · 40-foot container
Twenty medical personnel in the spring — doctors, nurses, a pharmacist, OT and audiologists — see 600+ patients and give out 150+ hearing aids. A second smaller team follows.
- 2008Mission
Fall mission
Continued work at Kwahu Government Hospital and surrounding communities.
- 2010Mission
Fall mission
Outreach, screening, and surgical work return to the district.
- 2012Mission
Spring mission
Continuing surgical, clinical, and outreach work alongside Salormey Volunteers Group.
- 2013Mission
Seventh mission · featured
17 volunteers from Indiana, Wisconsin, and Illinois. 50+ surgeries in two weeks; outreach in 8 villages; water filters delivered.
Help bring hope
Join us. Your support funds surgeries, supplies, filters, and futures.
We thank the people who donate money, time and supplies to this effort. Every dollar, every hour, every box of supplies makes the next mission possible.
Donate securely · via PayPal
- DonateOne-time or monthly
- VolunteerSkills in medicine, nursing, PT
- SuppliesMedical equipment & instruments
- SponsorEducation for orphan students