National Volunteer Day 2025 united volunteers in service all across Ghana on and around 21 September 2025 - #NVDay2025

 The GhanaThink Foundation today celebrates the spirit and impact of National Volunteer Day (NVDay) 2025, a nationwide volunteer mobilisation held on 21 September 2025 and supported by a broad coalition of youth groups, NGOs, schools and corporate partners. NVDay 2025 activities were widely shared across Facebook, Instagram and X under #NVDay2025 and coordinated through event listings on the GoGiveTime platform.

This coincides with International Volunteer Day (IVD) under the theme "Every Contribution Matters". “The future of Ghana depends on the actions we take today. The best way to predict the future is to create it. Less talk, more action.” — Ato Ulzen-Appiah, Director, GhanaThink.

National Volunteer Day is organised by the Ghana Volunteer Program (GVP), an initiative of GhanaThink Foundation. The Ghana Volunteer Program was born on 5 December 2013, marking International Volunteer Day that year. GVP matches volunteers to volunteer opportunities. It continues to operate a central registration and activity hub to support organisers and volunteers. NVDay has grown since 2013 with different types of volunteer activities, strengthening volunteer organizations like Rotary, Rotaract, Lions, Leo Clubs as well as birthing NGOs and other social impact organizations and groups. Since 2013, National Volunteer Day has mobilized over 10,000 volunteers nationwide.
2025 Activities

The 2025 edition featured a wide array of specialized community service acts:

• Diverse Educational Support:

• In the Ashanti Region, volunteers joined the Rotary Club of Ayigya to donate desks and plant trees at the Ayigya M/A Basic School in Kumasi, directly improving the learning environment.

• Wa Konnect in the Upper West Region led career guidance sessions for students at Jejedeyiri and Huriya JHS, in Wa.

• Adom Better Life Foundation (ABLF) ran a 'Back to School Stationeries Distribution' for children at the Pershie/Dwira Akyinim Primary School in Elmina, near Cape Coast. 

• Northeast Konnect partnered with the Northern Innovation Lab for school outreach in schools including Gbimsi M/A JHS in Walewale, focusing on drug abuse sensitization. They also visited churches to do the same.

• Rotaract Clubs of Dansoman, KNUST, Kumasi, and the host nation Obuasi united for good, teaching their younger brothers and sisters of Bidieso JHS and Christ the King SHS on how to fend for themselves, helping them acquire life skills.

• Hereafter Ghana organized "Pick, Pack & Play" sessions with school children in Tamale organized by Hereafter Ghana towards Educational & Skill Development in Tamale.  

• There were digital literacy workshops at the Krutiase School in the Eastern Region by Young At Heart Ghana.

• Onome Child (Foundation) organized a Read-Write Clinic at Pacesetters Academy in Gbewaa (a deeply underserved community in Tamale)

• Health and Wellness:

• In the Northern Region, free health screening and safety demonstrations were organized by Tamale Offline Hangout, alongside the personal blood donation drives, at the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC), etc.

• Rotaract Clubs spearheaded massive blood donation drives at the Atomic Mall in Accra, and the Tamale Teaching Hospital.

• The VivaHealth Medical Foundation conducted a specialized surgical and medical outreach in Keta.

• Environmental Action:

• Kasoa Konnect launched the #CleanAirGhana campaign in the Central Region, engaging students in tree planting.

• Bolga Konnect partnered with "Street Janitors" for a major clean-up at the Bolgatanga Lorry Station.

• Fafali & Friends continued to drive beach clean-ups in Sogakope. 

• The Legends Hub combined environmental sanitation (cleanup exercises) with peace campaigns in Takoradi, as well as Tarkwa, Ho, and Accra. 

• Innovative Engagement:

• In Accra, a unique "mobile volunteering" initiative focused on giving passengers free rides was led by Ato Ulzen-Appiah, using his Vim Ride. This showcased the impact of service while on the move.

Media Engagement & Impact

The celebration garnered significant media attention, with featured interviews on Citi 97.3 FM's Citi Breakfast Show and Channel 1 TV’s Breakfast Daily. Irene Dery (Barcamp Ghana Resources Lead) spoke about some GhanaThink members like Eleanor Asare (The CSR Hub), Sampson Deklu (#ThousandFor100) and Kuukuwa Manful (Sociarchi) who built and strengthened their social impact organizations through NVDay. Timothy Amuah (Barcamp Tema Coordinator) and Gideon Nana Asmah (Barcamp Cape Coast Coordinator) in these interviews also shared about how the general public could volunteer, aside the various #NVDay2025 activities.

Social media engagement exploded under hashtags #NVDay2025, #Volunteeringh, #NVDay #GoGiveTime, and #CleanAirGhana, amplifying stories of impact across Facebook, Twitter/X, and Instagram.

On the occasion of International Volunteer Day, Kofi Larbi (GVP Team Lead), led some media engagements, including on the Diamond Drive in Tamale.  “NVDay 2025 demonstrated the power of coordinated youth action,” said Kofi Larbi.

2025 & Next Steps

GhanaThink partnered with GoGiveTime to centralise event registration, volunteer matching and public promotion for NVDay 2025. The partnership aimed to streamline sign‑ups, improve visibility for grassroots events and capture volunteer data for follow‑up training and recognition. GhanaThink plans to onboard volunteers who work with its local teams on Barcamps and other initiatives, while encouraging more institutions to leverage GoGiveTime.o