Lokhanda is Africa’s preeminent self-defense organization creating awareness and empowering women and girls against sexual assault, r**e and violence in Ghana and Africa.
Mission Statement: empower lives and promote gender equality.
Motto: strength is in the mind
Slogan: global safety starts here
Goals
To become Center for Anti-Violence Education in Africa
To decrease the vulnerability of women and children to violence and sexual exploitation
To train and provide innovative principles and skills towards personal safety development while improving agility skills, flexibility, strength, and endurance
Target market & Audience
Women and Girls
Target Audience:
Women, Young people, Organizations, Communities, Security services and Law enforcement agencies and Military training.
Products/Services
Self-defense
Child-protection
Fitness training / Physical Education
First-Aid training
Workshops / Seminars
In order to make Lokhanda accessible to women, children and people of all ages and abilities, Lokhanda gives individuals, professionals, parents, teachers, group leaders, managers, administrators and employers to arrange and organize workshops for their family, class, school, club, business, organization, congregation, caregivers and friends.
Organizers communicate their priorities with respect to date, time, location, cost, participants and we tailor services to fit their respective needs which includes Seminars and Workshops ranging from 60 mins, 90 mins and 2 - 5 hours in length sections.
Services / Training programs
Lokhanda curriculum for teaching, research and community engagement programs spans all aspects of safety from awareness to prevention management. Our School and prevention curriculum creates a culture of safety and security for all educational institutions to teach simple effective means of prevention, escape and survival techniques. They are designed to be practical, fun and appropriate for a co-ed physical education class with an average class size of 40 with a 60-90 minute class period.
Lokhanda training services could be divided into our 4 main core innovative workshops themed Lokhanda Women Empowered Program- (for Only women and girls), Lokhanda Kiddy Safety Program (for Children between age 4-17 and Young adults between age 18-35 (Both boys & girls)), Lokhanda Corporate Self-defense (for only workers) and Lokhanda Community Safety campaign. Below are a short list of our training programs for your perusal:
Setting and enforcing boundaries
Bullying prevention and Positive peer relationship skills
Child Abuse Prevention skills
R**e + Sexual Assault prevention and survival skills
Close quarter defense and survival skills
Getting support, healing and recovery training
Basic first aid + CPR
Partnerships/Affiliations Lokhanda relies on a broad and diverse set of collaborative relationships and partnerships in all parts of the world to pursue its mission and implement its programs to ensure greater efficiency to build equitable global safety empowerment goals for women and children.
Training Fees / Cost
As a non-profit organization, Lokhanda fees for services reflect our break-even service cost which covers clients tailored needs assessment; guidance with organizing; the workshop itself; and follow-up safety support.
Services are adapted for participants’ different hearing, vision, mobility, or cognitive abilities. Actual rates vary based on workshop length, group size and distance outside our primary service areas and ranges from Gh¢300 and above per workshop or seminar.
Organization Background
Lokhanda was founded in 2010 by Mr. Lord Kwadjo Andoh as a non-profit organization based in Ghana, Africa, dedicated to creating awareness, providing educational and physical self-defense training skills to empower people of all ages and abilities particularly women and children against abuse and other violence such as bullying, harassment, sexual assault, r**e, relationship violence and stalking.
Lokhanda, a global leader in self-defense services for the vulnerable in society offers a wide range of workshops, seminars and consulting services in group settings as well as private sections to children, women, families, organizations, schools, corporate bodies, community services and law enforcement agencies; and has since empowered thousands of people including special needs both locally and globally to build confidence, establish day-to-day safety awareness skills, boundary settings, physical self defense and positive communication skills.
Our training programs teaches everything from simple de-escalation techniques all the way to deadly force techniques for worse case scenarios and are adapted to the needs and capacities of people with disabilities to increase their sense of personal power to help defend their rights and fulfill their full potential.
History of Success
Over the past few years, Lokhanda has successfully partnered and empowered thousands of people and organizations including the special needs both locally and internationally. Most notable relevant project experiences include “University of Ghana (2018), Global Arts and Development Center -GADEC (2018), African Women Development Fund (AWDF - 2017), IFED Global (International Youth Diplomacy Conference (IYDC – 2017)), University of Professional Studies U.P.S.A.(2016/2017), Ghana Telecoms University College (2017), TV3 Ghana’s Most Beautiful (GMB - 2017), 7 Hearts Foundation (2017), African Widows and Disabled Foundation (2017/2018), Kwese’ TV (2017), Hitz103.9fm (2017), Pulse Gym (2017), Sel-Fitness Club (2017 - >), Presbyterian Church of Ghana- Divine congregation (2017/2018), British Council of Ghana (2016), Dubois Memorial center (World Poetry and Friendship Day -2016) and many others with great support from the local communities and media partners including AdomTV, TV3, Joy News, Pulse.com, Ameyawdebbrah.com, Zionfelix.com, Ghanafuo.com, OMG Voice, OdarteyGh, Abrantepa.com, Enews.com, Blagogee.com and etc.
Contact Information
Lokhanda
Non-Profit Self-defense Organization
Head Office - Accra-Ghana
Training Centers:
Fitrip - Dzorwulu
Sel Fitness - Adjacent University of Professional Studies
Pulse Fitness - East Legon
For more information or to schedule a class, seminar/workshop CONTACT US TODAY!
ZIP: +233
Mobile: + 0207605428
E-mail: [email protected]
www.lokhanda.org
