Registered NGO · Est. 2010 · Central Region, Ghana
HERO Network trains and equips local volunteers across Ghana to close the last mile in immunisation, HIV self-testing, TB case-finding and stigma reduction — door by door, durbar by durbar.
Who we are
HERO Network is a Ghanaian NGO working in health, education and governance. Rather than parachuting in, we build capacity within the community itself — training local volunteers to monitor healthy living, good governance and quality education long after a project's funding cycle ends.
We've worked in communities across Agona West, Agona East, Gomoa West, Gomoa East, Assin South, Awutu Senya, Twifo Atimokwa & Hemang and Lower Denkyira districts of the Central Region — and, through our stigma-reduction work, as far as the Ashanti, Bono and Upper West Regions.
To promote quality education, good health and wealth creation through health, education, technology and governance support programs for sustainable human resource development.
To reduce poverty through education, healthy living and good governance for sustainable development — achieved through networking and information sharing.
Meeting the developmental needs of future generations, one district, one durbar and one household visit at a time.
Long-standing partnership
We've supplied weighing scales, tables, plastic chairs, megaphones and other logistics to the Directorate, and built the Fetteh Kakraba CHPS Compound to bring care closer to the community it serves.
The ledger
Every figure below comes straight from our 2025 activity registers — the same ones our volunteers fill in by hand after every household visit, durbar and screening.
Case files
Each project below runs on the same model: train local volunteers, map the community, go door to door, and report what happens — good or bad — back to the people funding it.
Gomoa East
Project 01 · May–Dec 2025
Ten volunteers and five Community Information Centre operators were trained as immunisation champions across ten under-served communities — from Amakum to St. Gregory — to trace defaulters, mobilise caregivers and support the district's routine and campaign vaccination drives.
Agona West
Project 02 · Since July 2024
Volunteers carry test kits into salons, pubs, mechanic shops and dressmaking stalls — wherever people already gather — and pair every kit with plain-language education, a phone number for follow-up, and a direct line to confirmatory testing at partner health facilities.
Global Fund GC7
Project 03 · Year-round
Missing TB cases rarely walk into a clinic on their own. So our volunteers walk into markets, churches, lorry stations and homes instead — screening, collecting samples, and liaising with lab teams at Kasoa Polyclinic and Winneba Municipal Hospital to shorten the wait for results.
8 districts · 4 regions
Project 04 · Jan–May 2025
From Wa to Assin Fosu, we ran mini-durbars, community radio slots and school talks to make room for honest conversations about HIV and TB. Door-to-door work in one community uncovered a 12-year-old living with HIV, orphaned and being raised by his 72-year-old grandmother — now a case we continue to support.
Show your work
Partners ask to see trends, not just totals. Here's how three of our indicators moved this year.
All 9 reactive self-tests in 2025 were among women — a signal we're now using to shape outreach at male-dominated worksites like mechanic shops and lorry stations.
The people
A core staff of four coordinates a rotating bench of field volunteers — the people who actually knock on the doors.
Who we work with
Our projects are only possible because of the organisations that fund, host and stand alongside our field teams.
Field notes
Short, honest stories from the volunteers doing the walking.
In 2025, every single person whose self-test came back reactive ended up linked to care. Here's what it took to get there.
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A routine door-to-door visit in one community turned up a case no register had flagged.
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Screening jumped ten-fold this year. It didn't happen without a few honest setbacks.
Read the full dispatch →Get involved
Whether you have a weekend a month, a district health budget, or a community that needs reaching — there's a way in.
Join a district team as a mobiliser, data officer or CIC operator. We train before every project launch — no prior experience required, just consistency.
Ask about volunteering →Co-design a program, fund a district rollout, or support logistics like test kits, transport and BCC materials. We report back in the same ledger format you see above.
Start a conversation →Run a church, mosque, school, market or workplace? Invite our team for a sensitisation session, screening, or self-test kit distribution.
Call the Programs Manager →Reach us
Based in the Central Region, working nationwide when the project calls for it.
