A Residence for Women
A Place Where Women Thrive
From planning through foundation
Our mission to foster positive life experiences for young adults living with mental or physical disabilities in Ghana always included women. Women living with disabilities face even more challenges in their communities than men do. They require a different sort of support system. They require experiences designed for them. They require a living space to call their own.
Our planning of The Sky House began in 2012, and while additions, such as the workshop, saw us alter that plan during construction, our vision had always included a Women’s Residence: and we of course stuck to that plan.
Our 2017 GoFundMe campaign, launched specifically to fundraise for the construction of the Women’s Residence section of the property, provided us with the funding to build the foundations to a two-storey building (thank you!). This was significant because it allows us the ability to expand in the future – an important part of our plan, of course. Construction of the Women’s Residence began in Ghana the following year.
The final construction phase of the Women’s Residence in Ghana.
One of our four residents currently residing at the Women’s Residence at the Sky House, Juliette has learnt to weave Kente, despite Cerebral P{alsy in her right hand!
The current Women’s Residence
The first floor of the Women’s Residence was completed in 2019, and a roof was added at that time to allow residents to move in and have the building operational. We now have 4 Ghanaian women living in our Women’s Residence, including one who has already completed her seamstress training.
Upon completion of her training, she joined other residents of The Sky House in the workshop. There, she, along with her colleagues, create incredible pieces of woven Kente that are then sold locally and in our online shop, with the profits going directly back to The Sky House and Women’s Residence. As our residents improve their skills, and as we expand our programs and reach, we aim for self-sufficiency of the project by sale of the products our residents create (and the produce they grow).
Sponsor the Women’s Residence
Our 2017 GoFundMe campaign proved our Women’s Residence has the support of amazing people like you. Without those donors, we would not have a space made especially for women. A space where they build relationships with others, develop life and working skills, and grow as individuals; a space where women can thrive.
We now work to grow the reach of the Women’s Residence. We now aim to complete that second storey. Your donation to The Sky Is My Limit will help us ‘raise the roof’ of the Women’s Residence, and we mean that both literally and figuratively. Not only will we add a second storey, but in so doing we will invite more Ghanaian women into the home and raise the roof of their potential.
Sponsoring the Women’s Residence means that you are helping young Ghanaian women living with mental or physical disabilities find a sense of self and a space where they can belong – a place to truly call their own.
The Septic System being installed for the Women’s Residence in Ghana