Overseas Relief Organization is a registered Non-Governmental Organization in Ghana with a Charity number CG107402019, incorporated in September 2019 under the Companies Act 1963, Act 179.
Ghana is a country in West Africa that has made tremendous efforts in its poverty reduction, resulting from a poverty rate that has been cut from 52 percent to 21.4 percent between 1991 and 2013 across its three (3) ecological zones.
According to the Poverty profile of Ghana, this situation further suggests that about a quarter of Ghanaians are poor and under a tenth of the population is in extreme poverty concentrated in rural populations in which Six (6) out of the sixteen (16) regions are characterized by poverty rates lower than the national average of 24.2 percent.
Again, while rural development and urbanization have led to significant poverty reduction in the South, similar dynamics have been largely insignificant in Northern Ghana.
This is especially true because, According to the Ghana Living Standards Report 2019, The combined rate of time-related underemployment and unemployment, and the composite measure of labor underutilization of the rural population is 24.2 percent, with females (27.3%) recording a relatively higher rate than males (20.9%).
Mission
Overseas Relief Organization (ORO) exists to act as a National Non-profit organization working to improve the lives of hard-to-reach and underserved populations through access to Portable water, Access to quality Education, Reducing Inequality, Promoting Quality Health Care while Strengthening Agriculture and Food Security.
Vision
Our aim is to explicitly help drive the equalization of opportunities characterized by people left behind and living in extreme poverty through evidence-based solutions and guidance on the implementation of practical project activities that have been tested and proven to be successful.