Women in bright dress dancing at a community celebration in rural Ghana.

Meaningful Life International

20 years of healing, health, and hope in rural Ghana.

MLI drills freshwater wells, runs free medical outreaches, plants churches, and trains leaders in rural communities where Ghana's development has not reached.

Our record

MLI was registered as an NGO in 2006, and we have accomplished:

74
boreholes drilled
150
medical outreaches
25
churches planted
50
leadership conferences held
2022
the ground floor of a brand-new medical center, completed and opened
See how we work
A completed borehole with a hand pump.
Fresh water

Where we work

The work, place by place.

Every borehole, medical outreach, church plant and leadership conference we have a place for. Choose a kind to show only those.

See every project, with photographs

Every place on the map, by region

Ashanti

  • Amenamu: 3 boreholes (2024)Position approximate: near Ejura.
  • Anuromso: borehole (2023)Position approximate: near Asiwa.
  • Attakura: borehole
  • Congo (Basare Akura): boreholePosition approximate: near Oku Junction.
  • Kumasi: leadership conference (2023)

Bono East

  • Dawadawa: borehole

Eastern

  • Aboabo: 2 boreholes (2024)
  • Abume: medical outreach (2022)
  • Adukojo: boreholePosition approximate: near Maame Dede.
  • Akosombo: leadership conference (2022)
  • Akyease: boreholePosition approximate: near Asamankese.
  • Alafia Junction: 4 boreholesPosition approximate: near Adeiso.
  • Amanase-Borketey: 4 boreholesPosition approximate: near Amanase.
  • Asiakwa: borehole
  • Asikasu-Odumase: medical outreach (2021)
  • Asikasu-Odumasi: borehole
  • Asuboi-Maase: borehole (2021)
  • Boasi: boreholePosition approximate: near Asuboi.
  • Okuapemman School, Akropong: leadership conference (2023)
  • Okyerekrom: borehole
  • Paulkrom: borehole

Greater Accra

  • Afienya (Doron Medical Center): 2 boreholesPosition approximate: near Afienya town.Position approximate: near Afienya.
  • Agorkpo, Big Ada: medical outreach (2021), church plant (2021)
  • Alavanyo: borehole (2023)
  • Dedukope: medical outreach (2021)
  • Tema Policlinic: borehole

Northern

  • Kukoonaayili: borehole (2024)Position approximate: near Tamale.
  • Kumbungu: borehole
  • Opijua: 2 boreholesPosition approximate: near Wulensi.
  • Tuunaayili: borehole (2024)

Oti

  • Alege-Akura: borehole
  • Attakrom-Buem: borehole
  • Ebitiyie: borehole

Upper West

  • Jyanvuuri: 2 boreholesPosition approximate: near Jirapa.
  • Kpakplamuni: boreholePosition approximate: near Funsi.
  • Kulongiong: boreholePosition approximate: near Wa.

Volta

  • Aboasa: borehole
  • Adeheta: borehole
  • Adetsewui: 13 boreholes (2022, 2023, 2024)Position approximate: near Akatsi.
  • Afatsagbleve: 2 boreholes (2023, 2025)
  • Apegusu: borehole
  • Asafotsi-Amenorpekope: borehole (2022)
  • Aveme: borehole
  • Dunyokorpe: borehole (2025)
  • Dzigbokope: borehole (2025)Position approximate: near Dzodze.
  • Dzodze: medical outreach (2022)
  • Keta: leadership conference (2023)
  • Kpando Agudzi: borehole
  • Kpelikorpe: borehole (2024)
  • Kpotavi: borehole (2024)
  • Mafi-Adzorkpo: 2 boreholesPosition approximate: near Mafi-Kumase.
  • Mawuli School, Ho: leadership conference (2023)
  • Sabadu: borehole
  • Tovi: borehole
  • Tsorxor: borehole
  • Weme: borehole
  • Weme: medical outreach (2023), church plant (2023)
  • Wusuta Sakakyere: borehole

Western

  • Dominase-Nkwanta: borehole

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Why we start with the well

Water is life. Health is dignity. Hope is the work of a lifetime.

We drill the well and open the clinic first. The conversation that follows is one the community chose to have.

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Meaningful Life International — 20 years of healing, health, and hope in rural Ghana