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The West African Health Foundation

Promoting Health and Wellness through Unrestricted, Comprehensive Medical and Public Health Outreach in West Africa

We Walked, We Celebrated, We Changed Lives!

Thank you for making the 3rd Annual Walk-A-Thon our most impactful one yet. Relive the moments and continue supporting our mission.

When we set out to build the state-of-the-art Specialist Eye Institute at Juaben in the Ashanti Region of Ghana, we knew we weren’t just constructing four walls. We were designing …

In Ghana, hundreds of thousands of people are currently living in darkness due to a condition that is entirely reversible. This condition is not a mystery or a rare disease; …

In many parts of the world, a change in vision or the onset of cloudy eyes is followed by a quick visit to an optometrist or ophthalmologist. A routine procedure …

About Us

The West African Health Foundation (WAHF) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization formed by a group of physicians on a mission to address the poor health and nutritional status of the people, particularly children and women, of the West African sub-region.

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If you wish to move mountains tomorrow, you must start by lifting stones today.

— African Proverb