Salormey Volunteers Group: Partners from the Beginning

American volunteers fly in for two weeks. They perform surgeries, run village clinics, and donate supplies. Then they fly home. The work that makes those two weeks possible — the translation, the logistics, the relationships with chiefs and hospital directors, the radio announcements that fill clinic chairs — is done by partners who live in Ghana year-round. For Anidaso Health, the most important of those partners is Salormey Volunteers Group.

SVG from the beginning

We were aided by the hard work of Salormey Volunteers Group, our partners in Ghana from the beginning. Fred Frempong and Rebeca Lago have been outstanding as always — coordinating schedules, resolving problems before they reach the operating theatre, and representing Anidaso Health with integrity in every community we enter.

When we say our work in Ghana is facilitated by SVG, we mean it literally. They facilitate: they make the work flow. Without them, our missions would be a group of well-meaning foreigners with suitcases of medicine and no way to reach the people who need it.

What SVG does on the ground

Before each mission, SVG conducts outreach through local radio stations — interviews and announcements that explain who we are, when we will arrive, and that care is free. That step alone determines whether eight villages show up for outreach or two.

During missions, SVG staff accompany our teams to Kwahu Government Hospital, to village clinics, and to schools and orphanages. They translate between English and Twi. They negotiate with hospital administrators for theatre time. They know which roads flood in November and which families will walk two hours if they know a doctor is coming.

After we leave, SVG remains. They follow up with hospital staff. They hear whether a water filter is still working. They tell us what the next mission should prioritize. That continuity is why we return to the same partners, trip after trip.

Twelve missions in twenty years

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. Each trip built on relationships established on the last. Kwahu Government Hospital has steadily improved its facilities over the course of our visits — male, female, gynecology, maternity, and children's wards; two surgical theatres; a laboratory; and outpatient departments including Casualty (ER), HIV, antenatal, ophthalmologic nursing, and general OPD. SVG helped us become part of that hospital's story, not a one-time visit.

Our wider partner family

Salormey Volunteers Group is the anchor, but they are not alone. Original Volunteers from the UK joined us in 2013 with marvelous on-the-ground help. Children of Abraham — an interfaith organization of the United Methodist Church of Hammond and the Northwest Indiana Islamic Center of Merrillville — collects discarded medical supplies from hospitals in Northwest Indiana and Chicago and ships them to places of need, including Ghana. Cheerful Hearts supports community programs for children and families. Safewater Trust partners with us on wells, pumps, and filtration.

Children of Abraham has sent supplies to earthquake-affected areas in Pakistan, East Jerusalem, Iraq, Liberia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, the Gulf Coast, Ghana, and Bolivia. When surgical instruments reached Kwahu Government Hospital through COA, they arrived because two faith communities in Indiana decided that surplus supplies in American hospitals should save lives overseas.

Thank you

We thank Salormey Volunteers Group, Original Volunteers UK, Children of Abraham, Cheerful Hearts, Safewater Trust, and all the people who donate money, time, and supplies to this effort. Partnership is not a line on our website — it is the reason our missions succeed.

Anidaso means hope in Twi. Fred, Rebeca, and the SVG team carry that hope in Ghana every day we are not there. When our volunteers land in Accra, they are not starting from zero — they are joining a team that never left.