Every Person Deserves Comfort, Compassion and Dignity at the End of Life

Across rural Ghana, too many people living with advanced illness are diagnosed late and reach the final days of life without pain relief, specialist support or practical help. Families often become carers overnight, children leave school to help at home, income disappears and people die in unnecessary pain. It does not have to be this way.

COMPASS-Ghana is a Ghanaian-led charity, registered in both Ghana and the UK, working alongside the Ghana Health Service, hospitals and communities to ensure that people living with a life-limiting illness receive expert, compassionate care wherever they call home.

During the last year alone we supported 167 patients and 151 family members across seven districts through our pioneering hospital-embedded community palliative care programme. One in every five patients we cared for was a child or young person. Our team also introduced Ghana's first Community Care Volunteers, helping families receive practical support closer to home.

Our patients were living with advanced cancer, heart failure, kidney disease, HIV, stroke, tuberculosis and many other life-limiting illnesses. Every diagnosis is different, but every person deserves the same dignity, comfort and compassionate care.

Our work is doing more than caring for patients. We are strengthening Ghana's health system by training healthcare professionals, supporting communities, improving referral pathways, collecting evidence to shape future services and developing a model that can be replicated across the country.

This work has already gained recognition from the Government of Ghana and has been presented internationally through the European Association for Palliative Care, demonstrating that locally led innovation can transform care in resource-limited settings.

Every donation helps us reach more patients and families with expert medical care, symptom control, home visits, family support, volunteer training and compassionate end-of-life care.

Together, we can ensure that no one faces the end of life alone, in pain or without dignity.

Thank you for helping us bring comfort, compassion and hope to families across Ghana.