One of Thirdway’s main goals is to mitigate the institutional obstacles faced by the most deprived in Ghanaian society. One main approach we take is the establishment of educational projects in such communities. We believe educational institutions are essential to a community’s development, because it enables the community to ask itself vital questions and hands it the tools to answer them.

We therefore gave birth to the establishment of the Klaas Haven Basic School in Kasoa to ensure access to quality primary school education. This is the first of several proposed educational projects. We have proposals for other projects, including those for human rights education as well as entrepreneurial and technology oriented education.

Even though not often recognized and acknowledged, the concept of human rights applies beyond the strictly political. Human beings have the right also to economic development, broadly construed. This includes those values and material conditions that are instrumental to and protective of working human beings. So, while we pursue and support economic development, we understand that it is constrained by other values. This is important to impart and it is heavily stressed in our educational materials.

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in Education

If you are looking at this website right now you recognize the power that computers, and especially the internet hold. What we hope to do is to share the promise of these technological developments with our targeted communities in Ghana. This should result into access to information, sharing and making use of the information coming from all over the world for overall growth and development politically, economically, and educationally and others.
We aim to support the building, maintenance and running of computer and internet communications in the Klaas Haven School and later to extend the program to other schools as part of the Rural Manpower Development program.

We plan to provide this support at a minimum cost to the rural areas, enabling students to complete their education with basic computer knowledge. We then plan to extend the range of our program to grow along with the needs of our students.

At Thirdway our overall aim is to improve the economic and social situation of the people by increasing access to income-generating activities and by providing required training to manage their activities.
In general, micro-credit programs extend small loans to very poor people for self-employment projects that generate income, allowing them to care for themselves and their families. These initiatives can come in a variety of packages, serve a wide cross section of client base, and the financial product can be delivered in a free standing mode or as an integral part of the services provided by a Community Based Financial Institution or a Credit Union.

Our tourism program aims not only at income generation and the appreciation of nature's beauty. We have a philosophy of promoting human rights through tourism.

Thirdway’s Tourism Department identifies tourism opportunities in the southern regions of Ghana in particular in the Volta region and further develops them in cooperation with local entrepreneurs.

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