NkrabeaCulture & Arts
Four boys in white playing tall carved drums under a canopy while other children stand around them holding gourd rattles, watched by a crowd, with the Nkrabea Drumming and Dance Troupe banner behind them.
Our work

Programmes with a measurable end

Nkrabea is currently running and raising funds for the following initiatives.

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
  • Boys seated at a row of tall carved drums under a canopy, other children standing behind them with gourd rattles, a crowd looking on and a videographer filming from the side.
01Raising funds

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

Programme value GHS 900,848

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

  • Kente weaving for 50 students
  • Drumming and dance for 50 students, a cultural group development using vibrotactile technology so Deaf and hard-of-hearing students can feel and perform rhythm
  • All equipment procured remains permanently at the school as an institutional asset

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.
Soap-making at the caregiver training, Ayawaso North, November 2026
  • Four women and a man holding a white cane standing behind a table lined with filled white bottles, in front of the Nkrabea banner.
02Raising 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.

  • Targets 500 persons with disabilities across Greater Accra, Ashanti, Central and Eastern regions
  • Intensive three-day workshops covering eight or more soap and hygiene product varieties, plus business skills
  • Label and packaging design using Adinkra symbols, local fragrances and storytelling that positions products as distinctive Ghanaian goods
  • Aims to seed 90 new PWD-led micro-enterprises and link at least 250 trained artisans to markets
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.
The Nkrabea Drumming and Dance Troupe
  • Paintings mounted on freestanding display boards at an outdoor art exhibition, each with a printed label, as visitors walk between them.
03Long-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 destination all our work is building toward
  • Preservation, promotion and education of Ghanaian culture and the arts

What the funding buys

One hundred students, split evenly between two trades

The Cape Coast programme is costed, dated and designed to leave its equipment behind. These are the numbers a funder would be committing to.

100

students at Cape Coast School for the Deaf with Blind Unit, over one school year

Kente weaving
50
Drumming and dance, with vibrotactile equipment
50
A programme target, not a result to date. Source: Nkrabea's Skills Development Programme design.

GHS 900,848

Total programme value

As published by Nkrabea.

12 months

Integrated into the school calendar

about GHS 9,000

Per student, on average

The published budget divided by the published intake.

Retained

Equipment stays at the school as an institutional asset

How we teach

The art forms we work through

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

Taught to 50 students under the Cape Coast skills programme.

Boys seated at a row of tall carved drums under a canopy, other children standing behind them with gourd rattles, a crowd looking on and a videographer filming from the side.

Drumming and dance

Taught to 50 students using vibrotactile technology so Deaf and hard-of-hearing learners can feel and perform rhythm.

How a Deaf student learns a drum pattern

  1. Rhythm becomes vibration

    Vibrotactile equipment turns the drum pattern into a vibration a learner can feel.

  2. The learner feels the pulse

    Through the body rather than through the ear, so a Deaf or hard-of-hearing student can hold the timing.

  3. The learner plays it back

    And performs with the group, as a member of the cultural troupe the programme is building.

Nkrabea's programme design specifies vibrotactile technology for the fifty drumming and dance students. The equipment is part of the funded budget and remains at the school afterwards.
Children in white bending low into a dance step on muddy ground under a canopy, with carved drums behind them.

Nkrabea Drumming and Dance Troupe

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