About us
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The Clear Mind Foundation offers persons with a mild learning disability appropriate paid work and supported living. We currently provide 14 jobs, mainly at the car wash and the farm projects. This is a unique example of a working and residential community in Ghana.
Bridget Donkor, a woman with cerebral palsy, was the first person to use our services in 2014, first as a weaver and later as a salesperson. She was followed by Kwame Evans and his wife Adyoa, also with cerebral palsy and mild learning disabilities. A five-year development plan designed in 2018 by the team in Ghana secured steady development. Clear Mind, which initially owned a store with a community centre in town, increased the number of work sites by developing a farm, a car wash bay, a store with a restaurant and recently an agroforestry project.
Between 2020 and 2024, many other people joined with a shared ambition to work, make their own living and become more independent. Many also left again, mostly because our 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. In addition to our first three residents, we now employ Yaw, Charles, Amankowa, Kofi Baidoo, Frimpong, Amoateng, Timothy, Nicolas, Victory, Kojo and Regina.
Without subsidy and other government support, Clear Mind is only made possible because the work sites function as small businesses that generate income to pay the workers and even save some for recurrent project expenditures.
To secure the upkeep of the special workers in times of need and for the future, each special client has a monthly overseas sponsor who provides support through a 25-euro monthly donation. This setup works well.
The team in Ghana consists of the members of the governing board of Clear Mind Foundation, the daily management of the project, the webmaster and the special workers mentioned above.
The board (2014) is formed by Ineke Bosman, founder and chairman; Willie Hardi, secretary and project manager; Kwame Evans, senior special worker, and member; Charles Bosie, senior special worker, and member; Salamata Catherine Mahama, coach and restaurant, member; Samuel Baffoe, technical advisory member; George Kumih Kyereme, advisory member. The board meets every month. For contact information, please see Contact Us.
Willie Hardi runs the Clear Mind family with all the work sites with the help of two assistants: Rachid and Abu. Kwame and Charles also assist and run weekly lively meetings with the special workers.
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 (2014) consists of Dorrit van Dalen, chairperson; Marijke van Doorn, secretary; Leo van Boheemen, treasurer; Vera van der Zalm, PR board member; Tjeu Bakermans, aspirant board member for visitors and volunteers, and Ineke Bosman as an advisory member for the connection between the Netherlands and Ghana. The Dutch board meets twice a year. The foundation in the Netherlands supports the foundation in Ghana but is not responsible for the Ghanaian board.