Self-Help Initiative Support Services

About

Self-help Initiative Support Services (SISS) was established in 1998 as a grassroots mobilizing organization that provides services to promote and support existing self help groups or serve as a catalyst to establish them in communities where they do not exist, assist such groups to undertake development initiatives, build their capacities through training, transfer of skills ad organizational development to be self supportive. SISS favors building long term relationships and growing one project at a time. In the long-term SISS sees itself as an established support and advocacy facility protecting civil rights and promoting social welfare and small enterprise development to tackle poverty and social exclusion in Ghana.

Aims

To help reduce poverty and raise living standards within poor communities by providing training and support required to get excluded individuals and groups into income earning activities.

Objective

To promote and campaign for support for self help development initiatives.
To transfer the skills needed for personal development, organizational capacity building and civic consciousness through training and exchange.
To support self help projects initiated by individuals and community based groups and help link