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Impacting Lives Through Culture and the Arts

Ghanaian culture as a tool for real change

A Ghanaian NGO empowering marginalised communities through culture and the arts.

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A registered Ghanaian NGO under the Companies Act, 2019 (Act 992), operating nationally since 14 May 2021.

Non-governmental organisation: RegisteredNon-governmental organisation
Companies Act, 2019: Act 992Companies Act, 2019
Incorporated 14 May: 2021Incorporated 14 May
Area of operation: NationalArea of operation

A man wrapped in yellow and blue kente standing beside a narrow strip loom, with a weaver working behind him and warp threads stretched the length of the frame. — Kente weaving on a narrow strip loom

Our mission

Culture is the tool. Development is the work.

To showcase, amplify and promote Ghanaian culture and arts dynamism as a tool and contribution to socio-economic and cultural development.

Economic empowerment

Accessible, marketable skills that create sustainable livelihoods.

Social inclusion

Using culture and the arts to build dignity, visibility and participation.

Health and wellbeing support

Education, facilities and resources delivered through the arts.

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Latest from the field

Five caregivers trained in Ayawaso North

5 to 7 November 2026ECG Vocational Training Institute, Ayawaso North, Accra

A three-day skills programme for caregivers of persons with disabilities, run in partnership with the DFMC of Ayawaso North Municipal Assembly, has ended with five caregivers trained.

What they learnt

Liquid soap
Shower gel
Powerzone

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Who we serve

Four groups, four different questions

What you need from this site depends on why you came to it.

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Corporate sponsors and grant funders

Costed programmes, stated targets and a governance record you can check before committing.

See the case for support

Two men in blue and yellow striped northern smocks seen from behind as they face a kente-draped high table where elders sit, in a hall hung with kente.

Government and institutional partners

The Ghana Education Service, District Assemblies, ministries and the Office of Diaspora Affairs, working with us inside existing structures.

Discuss an institutional partnership

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The Ghanaian diaspora

A way to take part in and support cultural programmes at home, from wherever you are.

Find a way in

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Beneficiaries and the public

The schools, learners and communities our programmes are built for and delivered with.

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Our work

The programmes we are running and raising for

All programmes

Raising fundsGHS 900,848

Skills Development Programme, Cape Coast School for the Deaf with Blind Unit

A 12-month, school-calendar-integrated programme equipping 100 students with vocational proficiency in two high value Ghanaian art forms.

Aligns with UN Sustainable Development Goals 4, 8, 10, 17.

A woman seated on a low stool stirring a mixture in a large black basin with a wooden paddle, while a man in a yellow T-shirt explains and participants and Nkrabea team members gather round to watch.

Raising funds

Accessible Soap Production and Entrepreneurial Skills Training for PWDs

A livelihoods programme training persons with disabilities in diversified soap production, combined with culturally infused entrepreneurship.

The drumming and dance troupe seated together under a canopy, children in white behind a row of tall carved drums, with adult tutors in patterned smocks at one end.

Long-term vision

A Culture and Arts Centre and Village

Our long-term ambition: the biggest Culture and Arts Centre and Village in Ghana, a landmark for cultural preservation, education and diaspora tourism.

The scale of the need

Five hundred people, four regions, one programme

Our accessible soap production programme is designed to train five hundred persons with disabilities in a trade they can run themselves.

500

Greater Accra
Ashanti
Central
Eastern

Nkrabea has not published how the five hundred places divide between these four regions, so no split is drawn.

A programme target, not a result to date.

Five children in white dancing under a canopy, one bent low into the step, with drums, the Nkrabea banner and an audience behind them.

Our work is to reach back into the rich soil of Ghanaian culture, like the Sankofa bird, and use its wisdom, art and power to build a more inclusive future.
From our organisational profile

Support that works as investment, not charity

We work with corporate sponsors, grant funders and institutional partners to put Ghanaian culture to work for the communities that need it most.

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