Ghana Homeopathy Project
We promote homeopathy in Ghana under the UK charity Homeopathy in Africa in partnership with HEPA
(Homeopathy Education and Practitioners Association) a Ghana-based charity and homeopathic
practitioners association.
We currently focus on: Homeopathic Education, Recognition and Practice
Education
We have been working in Ghana since 2005 supporting homeopathic education and working in partnership with Ghana-based homeopathic educational programmes and offering our own practitioner courses. We completed a four-year programme in 2021 – graduating 24 homeopathic practitioners. We have recently been asked to support a group of Ghanaian classical homeopaths to run their own course under the auspices of HEPA our Ghana based education charity, empowering them, with our guidance, to put their own stamp on the homeopathy training on offer in Ghana.
Recognition
Homeopathy is recognised by the government in Ghana. The Traditional Medicine Practice Council (TMPC), registers professional practitioners from different forms of Traditional and Alternative Medicine and has been collaborating with us to secure a streamlined registration process for our newly graduated homeopathic practitioners,Homeopathy is recognised by the government in Ghana. The Traditional Medicine Practice Council (TMPC), registers professional practitioners from different forms of Traditional and Alternative Medicine and has been collaborating with us to secure a streamlined registration process for our newly graduated homeopathic practitioners.
Education
The success of our work will be seen in homeopaths being able to make a living as practitioners so that the people of Ghana have access to good quality homeopathy. Practising homeopathy is not easy, wherever you are in the world, and in Ghana certain challenges can be found, as in other African countries. These include the following:
Understanding homeopathic medicine in Ghana is not a given. Many people don’t know what it is and therefore education is important within the public domain. Access to homeopathic medicines and books. Having a reliable source of homeopathic medicines is important and the project would like to be able to support the development of a homeopathic pharmacy in Ghana in the future. In the meantime, we are planning to import more remedies from the UK and India to ensure that the stocks of our medicines are available and up to date. The financial situation in Ghana make maintaining a private practice challenging. Therefore, the project sometimes supports practitioners to enable them to offer homeopathic services. Our aim in the long-term however is for our practitioners to build independent and sustainable homeopathic practices.