Raise Awareness
Raise Awareness
Educate yourself. Educate others.
Foundation Beyond Belief uses social media and blogs to raise awareness and share progress of our projects, volunteers and partnerships. You can support this work by following Foundation Beyond Belief on Twitter, liking the Foundation Beyond Belief page on Facebook, and sharing information about our work with your personal networks.
If you would like to take a more active role in raising awareness about disability or witchcraft accusations in Ghana, you may wish to start with information from the resources below.
Free Online Resources:
Disability in Ghana
- Ghana Should Implement Commitments on Mental Health Issues, 2018 Human Right Watch report
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Ghana: People with Disabilities Freed from Chains: Invest in Voluntary Mental Health Services and Support in Communities, 2017 Human Rights Watch report
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The Misrepresentation of Disability, 2016 Graphic Online report
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Ghanaians ban ‘spirit child’ killing, 2013 BBC News report
- Ghana’s mental health patients confined to prayer camps, 2014 The Lancet article
Witchcraft Accusations in Ghana
- Condemned without Trial: Women and Witchcraft in Ghana, 2012 Action Aid report
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“Ghana witch camps: Widows’ lives in exile,” 2012 BBC News magazine article by Kati Whitaker
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No Country For Old Women, 2012 BBC documentary (narrated by Kati Whitaker, above)
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Witches of Gambaga, 2010 The Guardian video
- Ghanaian Witches, 2008 National Geographic video
Additional Resources:
Disability
Witchcraft Accusations in Ghana
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The Witches of Gambaga, 2010 Yaba Badoe documentary
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Witches in Exile, 2005 Allison Berg documentary
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Spellbound: Inside West Africa’s Witch Camps, 2010 book by Karen Palmer
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The Problem of Money: African Agency & Western Medicine in Northern Ghana, 2007 book by Bernhard Bierlich