| About Us |
 Our Mission: The Ahoto Partnership for Ghana is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving access to health care and promoting better health practices in developing regions of Ghana. Our projects are largely based out of the village of Akotokyir in Ghana’s Central region, and aim to mitigate the incidences of malaria and water-borne diseases that claim thousands of lives annually.
In addition our initiatives are designed to promote long term solutions support self sustaining development to empower the local population, in the aims of alleviating the suffering caused by the region’s extreme poverty. By using our unique positions at Cornell, McGill and Harvard Universities – epicenters of innovation in public health, medicine and technology, leadership and social entrepeneurship – we connect leaders in various industries, non-profit workers and locals to each other and the resources they need.
At Ahoto, we believe that Akotokyir is just the beginning. Over 15 communities within a five mile radius of Akotokyir face similar endemic problems. In the long run, Ahoto hopes to develop a presence in many of these communities and implement the best practices developed in Akotokyir.
 The History of Ahoto:  In the summer of 2007, Michael Kapps traveled to Ghana on a medical internship, where he saw first hand the state of social and health policy in the communities surrounding Cape Coast. There, he met schoolteacher Michael Lagede and student Emmanuel Gayasi, who were interested in helping the small underdeveloped community of Akotokyir. With Kapps’ help, they founded the Free Foundation Ghana in 2008, a non-profit designed to promote health initiatives in the region. Kapps, along with the executive directors, implemented surveys and various health education campaigns in Akotokyir, and in 2009, founded the Ahoto Partnership for Ghana, a sister organization of the Free Foundation, based in Cambridge Massachusetts.
Since then, Ahoto has continued its work, organizing health education camps, National Health Insurance Scheme subsidization and anti-malaria campaigns. We continue to work tirelessly on new projects in the area.
For more information on past and future projects please see our Projects page.
For more information about the Free Foundation, please visit www.freefoundationghana.org
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