Dr Gabriel Gbiel  Benarkuu, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MIHOSO International Foundation, a Civil Society Organisation (CSO) has urged CSOs and Non-governmental Organisations to find alternatives ways of raising funds for community intervention programmes.

Instead of over-relying on donor funding and grants, he advised the CSOs and NGOs to create social entrepreneurship, networks, and build and strengthen partnerships.

Dr Benarkuu, also the President of the College for Community and Organisational Development (CCOD), a private technical university, expressed unhappiness about the decline of donor support and funding for CSOs and NGOs.

Basically, he said that was because of the nation's status of being a middle income country, saying that had changed the funding raising field, having a huge toll on the activities of the NGOs and CSOs.

In an interview Sompa FM on the side-lines of a staff retreat of the Foundation held at Fiapre, near Sunyani, Dr Benarkuu noted that many NGOs and CSOs in the country were on the verge of collapse due lack of funding.

Established in 2003, Mr Thomas Benarkuu, the Deputy Chief Executive Officer in-charge of Operations, explained the foundation among others objectives worked to improve the conditions of vulnerable people with emphasis on women, children, and girls.

He commended the staff of the foundation for their hard work in 2024, and urged them to continue with that for the foundation to achieve its action plan of helping to build a better society for the vulnerable.

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