About us

The Clear Mind Foundation offers persons with a mild learning disability appropriate paid work and supported living. We currently provide 16 jobs, mainly at the car wash and the farm projects. The maximum intake is 20 special workers. 

This is a unique example of a working and residential community in Ghana

Bridget, with cerebral palsy, was the first person with disability to find a job at Clear Mind. That was in 2014. She was a weaver and seller of used clothes. Kwame Evans and his wife Adyoa, also with cerebral palsy and mild learning disabilities, followed her over the next 5 years as car washer and seller of water. From 2020 onwards 13 other special workers joined the Clear Mind family, mainly working at the carwash, the farms, the shop and the cornmill.

From 2018 onwards a systematic annual development plan was designed by the team in Ghana. The phase of providing the infrastructure (for jobs and sheltered living for max 20 persons) will probably be completed in 2027.  Fundraising to implement these annual plans were predominantly done by the Clear Mind Foundation in The Netherlands, a foundation raised to financially aid the work of Clear Mind in Ghana.  

Many special people joined with the ambition to work and create a more independent living at Clear Mind, but many also left again because special workers must be tough, mature, sociable and hardworking to stay at Clear Mind. The point of Clear Mind is that people who join need to work and be able to live from what they earn. This is difficult enough for ordinary people in Ghana, let alone those with disabilities! But so far they really manage, and all this without subsidy or other government support.

Clear Mind is only made possible by the hard work of the 

 special ‘family-members’. The work sites function as small family-businesses that generate income to pay the workers and most of the recurrent project expenditures. We are very grateful for donations and project-sponsoring from overseas as long as there is no subsidy from Ghana.

Each special client receives, apart from his pay, a monthly allowance of 25 euro from overseas, meant for healthcare, unforeseen and saving for the future.

The team in Ghana consists of director Willie Hardi with his two full time ço-workers’ and 16 special workers. They are advised and supported by the Clear Mind Foundation Governing board in Ghana, formed by George Kumih Kyeremeh, chairman, Director Willie Hardi, secretary, Kwame Evans, treasurer, Salamata Catherine Mahama, member; Samuel Baffoe, member; Ineke Bosman, founding member, Nana Adams, member, Mrs Agyewaa, member, Judith Looijen, member. The board in Ghana meets on a monthly base.

Director Willie Hardi runs the Clear Mind family with all the business and family life aspects. He has two assistants: Rachid and Abu, who are called the co-workers. Kwame, Adjoa, Charles, Amankowa and 12 others are the special workers running the project. The workers organize weekly house-meetings about anything to do with daily life, relationships, shopping, cooking, cleanliness and issues at the worksite. The webmaster is Stephen Amoako, an ICT expert presently living in Dubai. He is responsible for the website design and hosting and keeps it updated as a webmaster on a voluntary basis.

The Clear Mind Foundation governing board in the Netherlands consists of Dorrit van Dalen, chairperson; Marijke van Doorn, secretary; Leo van Boheemen, treasurer; Vera van der Zalm, PR board member; Ineke Bosman, member. The Dutch board meets twice a year. The foundation in the Netherlands financially supports the foundation in Ghana but is not responsible for its policies.