About Us

The Dignity Foundation

Our story

Gloria Acquah moved to Kokrobite with her family in 2013. The beautiful fishing community attracts lots of tourists from all over the world but the local people are poor. As one raised by a single mom, in peri-urban Ghana, Gloria knew at first hand what risks face young girls and boys in this beautiful community.

As her way of giving back, she decided to start Dignity Plus Foundation, an organisation that will be dedicated to helping some of the world’s most vulnerable come out of poverty with dignity. As big as her dreams are, she knew she had to start small so her maiden project was to start a Girl’s Club in Langma, another fishing village, right next to Kokrobite where she lives. The success of the Girl’s Club motivated the boys in the school who came asking if she could help them start a club too.

Gloria has a Master’s Degree in Human Resource Development and a Bachelor’s in Educational Psychology. As an experienced educator and Special Needs Education professional, she’s been committed to helping club members get the best professional interventions possible.

About Us

Dignity Plus Foundation (D+F) is a Ghana-based non profit organisation located in the tiny, rural fishing community of Kokrobite. D+F is a local effort to help bridge the widening inequality gap plaguing the nation, which disproportionately affects the rural poor, especially women and children.D+F empowers adolescent girls and young women through leadership training, reproductive health support and education, literacy training and entrepreneurial and economic training.

Our Vision

Our vision is to help some of the world’s poor and vulnerable achieve and live dignified lives. Specifically, we seek to support adolescent and young women to find their path and niche in life.

Our Mission

Dignity Plus Foundation focuses on leadership and economic development, reproductive health, medical screening and literacy training, using interventions such as girls clubs, capacity-building, educational and information services

Quick LifeLine

Sometimes, communities need quick interventions. Due to Gloria’s journalism past, she gets exposed to urgent social needs that happen around the country, and collaborates with media practitioners, social workers and good hearted people to quickly intervene with life threatening situations where official support from governments and bigger institutions may be slowed by bureaucracy. These quick interventions have helped flood victims in Bereku, Volta Region Ghana go back to school, pregnant teenagers in Nandom, Northern Ghana find refuge and deliver safely, and supplied much needed medical interventions for people in the Upper East Region of Ghana.