“It takes a village to raise a child.”
Yorke Mary AjuwalTreasurer
Local action · Global impact
Compassion that reaches further.
Through collaboration across communities and borders, we turn shared purpose into practical support.
Who we are
Creating opportunity where it is needed most.
The B.Y. Foundation e.V. works to empower disadvantaged children and communities by addressing the root causes of poverty and helping people unlock their potential.
Through education, healthcare, nutrition, community support, and practical skills, we work to restore safety, dignity, opportunity, and hope.
Sponsor a child
Help a child stay in school.
Educational support from the foundation already includes school materials, uniforms, scholarships, and mentorship. If you would like to sponsor a child, write to the team. They will explain how sponsorship works and where the support goes.
- School materials, uniforms, and shoes
- Scholarships and mentorship
- Meals and healthcare where the work already reaches families
Stories
Lives the work has reached.
These accounts are ones the foundation or a newsroom has already put on record.
Education · Ghana
Paid in person so she could finish
We listened. We believed in her potential. Our Executive Director, Mr. Yaw Barwuah, went to her school with her and paid her final tuition fees in person, so she could sit her exams and finish her education.
A beneficiary · Published by the foundationEducation · Bodoamase, Ghana
From Class Two to KNUST
Prince has been on the foundation’s scholarship programme since Class Two. He is now a Level 2 student at KNUST. He wrote to thank the team, and they later visited him at the university.
Prince · Published by the foundation
Education · Accra, Ghana
Fees paid so she could finish
Graphic Online reported that partners with the foundation gave GH¢2,200 so a final-year student at the Ghana Institute of Journalism could complete her programme. Her name was withheld.
A journalism student · Graphic Online, 3 July 2018
Community · South Africa
A family helped across a border
The foundation has published a humanitarian case involving Sophie, a Zambian national living in South Africa with her children. The team worked with partners so the family could take the next step with dignity.
Sophie · Published by the foundation
Education · Ashanti Region, Ghana
A public library restored
The renovated public library in Sekyere East now serves over 1,000 people across the district, including students, researchers, and professionals who use it for their education. The building, reading room, and walkways are complete.
Readers in Sekyere East · A completed foundation projectTestimonials
Voices from the work.
These words and this recognition are already on the public record.
Yaw Barwuah went to her school and paid her final tuition fees in person. She graduated, completed national service, and later visited the office to thank the team.
A beneficiaryEducation · Published by the foundation“I do not have to have millions of dollars before I can help someone. I will do the little I can, so the world is a better place for the people I am able to reach.”
Yaw BarwuahFounder and Director · Ultimate FM, KumasiA district the foundation serves awarded a certificate for education work that has reached nearly 10,000 pupils and students.
Ghana Education ServiceRecognition · Published by the foundationB.Y. Consultancy
Free guidance for careers, business, and social ventures.
Expert advice for young people, entrepreneurs, and organisations planning work in Africa or Germany. Offered free of charge.
Career counselling
Career Counselling and Professional Coaching
Guiding young people from secondary school to university and into their professional lives.
Book a free career sessionProject consultancy
Free Project Consultancy for Africa and Germany
Expert guidance for business and social ventures, offered free of charge.
Book a free consultation
Travel to Ghana
Come to Ghana with people who know the ground.
Visitors from Germany, and from anywhere in the world, who want to come to Ghana can write to the team. A stay can include time on the ground and, where it is welcome, seeing education, health, and community work already underway.
Build yourself. Build others. Build a better future.
B.Y. Foundation e.V.
What we do
Practical action. Lasting opportunity.
We concentrate on the foundations that help a person, a family, and a community move forward.
01Education and school support
School materials, uniforms, shoes, scholarships, mentorship, and classrooms so children can learn with dignity.
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02Healthcare and nutrition
Medical outreach, eye and dental care, medicine, and meals for families who would otherwise go without.
Learn more03Clean water
Support for community efforts that make clean, safe water part of everyday life.
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04Community development
Relief and community-led work that helps people build a more secure daily life.
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05Skills and livelihoods
Practical skills, advocacy, and support so women and young people can earn a living and stand on their own.
Learn moreRight now
Projects we are building together.
These are real, live projects happening on the ground. Your support, time, and voice make them possible.
School projectA school for Jerusalem, Ghana
Only 35 of 88 children in Jerusalem are in school, and the youngest learn in an open pavilion with no toilets, water, or power. We're raising about €30,000–38,000 for three classrooms, toilets, water, electricity, and furniture for up to 96 children.
Fundraising38%
B.Y. BuildCommunity Resource & Skills Centre
A multi-use space where young people learn practical skills, receive mentorship, and build livelihoods. Together we can make it real — and we need your hands, ideas, and support.
Community drive22%
B.Y. HospitalB.Y. Community Hospital
A dedicated community health facility to bring quality, accessible healthcare to underserved families in Ghana. From maternal care to general outreach — we are building something lasting.
Vision & fundraising12%
How we do it
A method, not a one-off gesture.
The foundation works in person, with partners, and for the longer piece of change, from the first conversation to the classroom, the clinic, and the livelihood that follows.
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Start where people are
We listen to families, schools, clinics, and local partners first. The work follows a real need in a real place, not a plan written far away.
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Give what can be used now
Uniforms, books, meals, eye screening, medicine, and classrooms. Support is practical, visible, and meant to restore dignity the same day.
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Work with partners, not around them
Schools, hospitals, the Ghana Education Service, the Gold Coast Organization, and volunteers across five countries carry the work with us.
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Stay for the longer piece
Emergency relief sits beside lasting work: a school block, a skill, a small business, and follow-through after the cameras leave.
Safeguarding
Everyone we work with deserves to be safe.
Children, young people, and vulnerable adults are at the centre of our work. Our safeguarding policy sets out how the team, volunteers, partners, and visitors keep them safe.
Children and vulnerable adults come first
Their safety and wellbeing come before any project, photograph, visit, or deadline.
Safe people in safe roles
Team members, volunteers, partners, and visitors who work with children are briefed on this policy and agree to its code of conduct before they start.
Respectful photos and stories
We ask for consent before taking or sharing pictures, never publish a child's full name with their home location, and remove any picture on request.
Every concern is heard
Concerns are taken seriously, handled in confidence, and followed up. Abuse, exploitation, or harassment is never tolerated and is reported to the authorities.
UN Sustainable Development Goals
Where the work meets the Goals.
The foundation’s programmes align with the UN Goals that match this work. Alignment describes contribution. It is not a claim of United Nations affiliation.
The content of this page has not been approved by the United Nations and does not reflect the views of the United Nations or its officials or Member States. UN Sustainable Development Goals
Projects
Work you can point to.
These are programmes already described by the foundation, from a school in Ghana to healthcare, food, and the team in Bangladesh.
Ghana
Public library in Sekyere East
A completed renovation of the public library in Sekyere East, Ashanti Region. It now serves over 1,000 people, including students, researchers, and professionals who come to read, study, and learn.
Ghana
A school for Jerusalem, Ghana
New kindergarten and primary classrooms for Jerusalem, a rural community in the Bono East Region, with toilets, water, and electricity, so up to 96 children aged 3 to 12 can learn close to home.
Ghana
Eye care and hospital support in Ghana
Medical sunglasses for Tamale Teaching Hospital, and free eye screening with prescription glasses in Achiase District.
Partnership
Healthcare with the Gold Coast Organization
A partnership with the Gold Coast Organization in the United States, bringing dental care, eye care, medicine, and health talks to the foundation’s first center.
Communities in need
Healthy Food for All
Meals for widows, people with disabilities, and vulnerable families, begun in the pandemic and still part of the foundation’s work.
Bangladesh
The team in Bangladesh
COVID relief for local families, school materials for children, and support so women can start small businesses.
Ghana
COVID-19 relief in the Ashanti Region
Free food supplies in Ghana’s Ashanti Region, together with Families Monitoring Families.
Where we work
Local presence. Shared purpose.
Five places connect the people and the practical work of the foundation.
West Africa
Ghana
School support, the renovated public library in Sekyere East, the Jerusalem primary school project, eye care in Achiase and at Tamale Teaching Hospital, food relief in Ashanti, and free legal guidance for people who cannot afford it.
South Asia
Bangladesh
A local team providing school materials, COVID relief, and support for women starting small businesses.
Southern Africa
South Africa
Community support alongside local partners, part of the foundation’s longer work on the continent.
East Asia
Japan
Volunteers and supporters who stay connected to the work, including volunteers who have served from Japan.
Europe
Germany
Home of B.Y. Foundation e.V. The German base connects partners, volunteers, and support for the work abroad, including an entrepreneurship project held on 1 December 2024.
Our team
Guided by purpose and shared responsibility.
Yaw Barwuah, Founder and Director. The foundation is carried forward by a dedicated team working across countries to bring dignity and practical help to those who need it most.
“I do not have to have millions of dollars before I can help someone. I will do the little I can, so the world is a better place for the people I am able to reach.”
12,000People supported
Gallery
A record of the work.
VolunteersChildren with a volunteerBangladeshLearning materialsGhanaPublic library in Sekyere East
EducationSchool bags for childrenGhanaVolunteers with children in GhanaNews
From the foundation’s record.
From the foundation
Paid in person so she could finish
The Executive Director paid a student’s final tuition fees in person. She graduated, completed national service, and later visited the office to thank the team.
Recognition
Recognition from the Ghana Education Service
A district the foundation serves awarded a certificate for education work that has reached nearly 10,000 pupils and students.
20 December 2020
Serving humanity in a time of need
With Families Monitoring Families, the foundation distributed free food for thousands of people in Ghana’s Ashanti Region during COVID-19.
1 December 2024
Every child should have the right to education
The foundation has described educational support reaching more than 10,000 children, and is raising support to build a school for a community in Ghana.
1 December 2024
Entrepreneurship project in Germany
A foundation entrepreneurship project in Germany, tied to practical skills and livelihoods.
Newsletter
Stay close to the work.
Occasional notes on programmes, visits, and ways to help. Not a daily list.
Get involved
There is more than one way to make a difference.
Write to info@byfoundation.org, call +49 151 24181189, or support the work directly.