Who We Are
The Organisation
Maata-N-Tudu
Association is a non-political,
non-religious, non-ethnic, non-governmental women's membership
organization. It was registered in September 1993 to bring together
women's groups of the three Northern Regions (Northern, Upper East, and
Upper West) to improve their situation.
The Association was formed by women's groups who participated in the erstwhile CUSO Women in Development Project to continue and/or sustain the flow of services they received under that project.
The Association was formed by women's groups who participated in the erstwhile CUSO Women in Development Project to continue and/or sustain the flow of services they received under that project.
Vision
The vision of
Maata-N-Tudu Association is to improve the situation of members and
their families by assisting them to unite and work together through
meetings, mutual self help, training and savings and loans programmes.
Mission Statement
- Maata-N-Tudu is an Association mainly of rural women from Northern Ghana working to meet their need for food, clothing, shelter, education, and health. This is done through:
- Meetings to promote unity withing member groups and between all groups, to promote peer learning and to improve their problem solving capacity.
- Contributions, regular savings and raising external support to sustain their work.
- Train and strengthen the capacity of members to provide support to each other and other needy persons in their communities especially in emergency situations of ill health, drought, floods etc.
- Loans to members to improve and expand their income generating activities so as to improve their income levels.
- Maintaining a secretariat and staff to help with
planning, co-ordination of activities, advice
financial management, etc.
Legal Status
Maata-N-Tudu
Association is a legal
entity registered and recognized as an NGO under the Ghana Company's
Code of 1963 Act 179. It is a company limited by guarantee with
registration No: 51733.