Growing What Works: Expanding the Maternal Mental Health Program in Ghana

For more than a decade, Every Child Fed and Project Peanut Butter (PPB) have worked together  to strengthen community-based solutions  to end child deaths caused by severe acute malnutrition. Focused on sustainable, evidence-based care, together we continue to learn, adapt, and expand what works. 

One of the most powerful outcomes of this partnership has been the success of a maternal mental health pilot in Sierra Leone that is now being expanded across the country with a $5 million grant from Action for Women’s Health. 

This year, we’re taking what we learned in Sierra Leone and adapting it for Ghana. In 2015, PPB Ghana began to produce a peanut-based school-feeding supplement in partnership with the Hershey Co, feeding roughly 50,000 school children a day. This creates a strong foundation for the next phase of our work. 

Building on proven success in Sierra Leone, we plan to expand maternal mental health programming into Ghana, integrating mental health support alongside existing services to reach mothers where care is needed most. This next chapter reflects our shared commitment to growing impact thoughtfully, sustainably, and together.