Veccel Foundation · Kopodor, Ghana
Every person is a vessel. Already filled.
We exist to remind people of that, and to help them fulfil their days, by building and sustaining Veccel International Community School.
“We have this treasure in earthen vessels.”2 Corinthians 4:7
Why Veccel
The treasure is already there.
Veccel comes from vessel. We hold that every person arrives already filled with precious things: talent, character, a worth that does not depend on income or postcode. What most people lack is not the treasure but the environment to discover it, develop it and use it with respect.
So the Foundation builds that environment. It funds and sustains a school where quality never depends on what a family can pay, and it extends what the school learns to the community around it.
Programmes
Five ways your gift works.
Scholarships, school support, community impact, skills and talent, and teacher excellence. Each has a clear purpose, a clear beneficiary and a clear way to help.
Scholarships
Up to 40% of VICS students on scholarship, allocated strategically so talent, not income, decides who gets in.
School support
Subsidising operations and infrastructure so premium education costs families a fraction of what it should.
Community impact
A library, a clinic and sports grounds open to the public under supervision, plus programmes for the local community.
Skills & talent
The Veccel School of Fashion legacy since 2018: skills training that leads to work, a business or further study.
The school
Veccel International Community School.
A mission-driven international school on four flat acres at Kopodor, Ningo-Prampram: early years from 18 months, a Cambridge pathway from Grade 1, IB World School authorisation pursued from Phase 3, classes of 25 or fewer, and boarding for middle and high school. The Foundation exists solely to support it.
Impact targets
What we are working towards.
Ways to give
Choose how you pour in.
Give once or monthly online, transfer to the Foundation's bank or mobile money account, name a facility, or partner as an organisation.
Give once
A one-off gift by card or mobile money, in Ghana cedis. Every amount counts.
Give monthly
A standing gift by card sustains a scholarship place, a teacher or a programme year after year.
Naming rights
Put a name on a facility, a scholarship or a programme, and leave a legacy on the campus.
Partnerships
Corporates, NGOs, international institutions and schools: funding, in-kind support, training and networks.
Transparency
You will always know where it went.
Donors and partners receive periodic reports: scholarship places funded, beneficiaries by year, the state of each build phase and the outcomes the school measures. Governance is a competent, balanced board, and independent observers are invited to assess results.
- Periodic impact and financial reporting to donors and partners
- Scholarship ratio and beneficiaries tracked as key indicators
- No bias on the basis of religion, gender, race or disability, anywhere
Stay close
A short letter, a few times a year.
Progress on the campus, the first scholarship cohort, and what your giving made possible. No noise.
Fill a vessel.
A scholarship place, a laboratory, a teacher's training, a library open to the town. Choose where your gift goes and see what it builds.