Chance for Children

What Chance for Children does

Chance for Children is a Swiss-registered nonprofit foundation (Chance for Children Stiftung), founded in 1999 and headquartered at Obere Delgg 3, Eschenbach, Switzerland, with operational programs delivered in Ghana. The organization focuses on health, social development, and education for street-connected children, defined as children who leave home for work and migrate to urban centres where they face child labour, exploitation, abuse, and interrupted education. Chance for Children serves 4,500+ beneficiaries annually through 90+ staff across 8 Ghanaian cities, including Takoradi, Accra, Cape Coast, Tema, Dambai, and Ho.

The foundation delivers an integrated suite of five program lines: Street Work (field-based outreach to rebuild trust with street children); Resource Centres/Hebron Homes (shelter facilities preparing children for family reunification and return to school); Family Strengthening (programs to build self-reliant family environments); Community Strengthening (initiatives supporting sustainable local capacity); and TVET/Technical and Vocational Education and Training (company-based professional apprenticeships preparing youth for self-sufficiency). Service delivery is community-led: outreach workers are present where the children are, partnerships are maintained with local leaders, non-profit organizations, and Ghanaian businesses, and programming is adapted to local cultural contexts. The "technology" of the organization is social-work and child-welfare practice, not software or digital infrastructure — no APIs, SDKs, integrations, or proprietary technology features are disclosed.

The business model is donation-funded with no commercial pricing. Revenue streams comprise individual donations, corporate donations, and institutional grants, supplemented by a handicrafts marketplace on the website and legacy-giving options (gifts in wills). The organization operates bilingually (English/German) for fundraising and communications, markets via its website, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and published annual reports (2022-2025), and serves a single-segment vertical of street-connected children in Ghana.

Name

Chance for Children

Legal name

Chance for Children Stiftung

Website

https://chance-for-children.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Chance for Children is a Swiss-registered foundation that delivers integrated street-work, shelter, family-strengthening, community, and vocational-training (TVET) programs to 4,500+ street-connected children and families across 8 Ghanaian cities each year, funded by donations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Child Welfare Nonprofit Services

NAICS

Child and Youth Services (62411)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Child Rights & Protection (BPADAGAG)

Keywords

• Child welfare services
• Street children outreach
• Family reunification programs
• Vocational training youth
• Community development nonprofit

Headquarters

HQ city

Accra

HQ country

Ghana

HQ region

Africa

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Donations: Funding from individual donors, corporate donors, and institutional funders supporting child welfare programs in Ghana

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Chance for Children is a Swiss-registered nonprofit foundation that provides direct social services to street-connected children in Ghana across 8 cities. Its core offerings include street-based outreach, residential shelter (Resource Centres/Hebron Homes), family and community strengthening programs, and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for youth. The organization is funded by donations and operates through 90+ staff and partnerships with local leaders, non-profits, and businesses.

Product overview

Chance for Children is a charitable organization (not a technology company) offering an integrated suite of social services to street-connected children in Ghana. The organization operates across 8 locations with 90+ staff, providing: Street Work (field outreach), Resource Centres/Hebron Homes (shelter), Family Strengthening, Community Strengthening, and TVET (vocational training). These services work together in an integrated approach to ensure street children are safe, educated, healthy, and equipped for life.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Street Work

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Local Leaders (Ghana)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with local community leaders in Ghana to identify and support street-connected children in their areas. Leaders help facilitate community-based interventions and ensure culturally appropriate service delivery.
• Non-profit Organizations (Ghana)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with other non-profit organizations working in Ghana to strengthen youth, families, and communities and achieve shared sustainability goals.
• Businesses (Ghana)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with businesses to prepare youth for professional training in companies and work closely with trainers to enable fulfilling professions and self-sufficiency.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Save the Children: One of the largest global children's rights organizations, active in Ghana with overlapping focus on child protection, education, and livelihoods. Compares as a large-scale incumbent in the same sector.
• Plan International: Global NGO advancing children's rights and equality for girls, with significant Ghana presence. Comparable child-rights and child-protection mandate at substantially larger scale and geographic breadth.
• SOS Children's Villages: Large global incumbent providing alternative family-based care for children without parental care across 130+ countries. Comparable child-welfare mission but operates at vastly larger scale with a residential-care orientation.
• Compassion International: Large faith-based child sponsorship organization operating in Ghana. Comparable focus on child welfare, education, and family support via sponsorship-funded donations, though centered on sponsorship model.
• ChildFund International: International child-focused NGO supporting vulnerable children in 20+ countries including Ghana. Comparable beneficiary focus and integrated community-development approach, but operates across broader program areas.

Direct peers

• Street Child: UK-headquartered charity directly focused on street-connected children across multiple countries in Africa and Asia. Highly comparable mission, beneficiary profile, and integrated outreach-plus-education service model.
• Railway Children: UK-registered charity supporting street-connected children globally with outreach, shelter, and family-reunification programs. Closely comparable integrated service model and child-rights focus.
• Challenging Heights: Ghana-based nonprofit addressing child trafficking, exploitation, and child-labour on Lake Volta — operating in the same Volta Lake corridor as Chance for Children. Direct regional peer with overlapping beneficiary population.

Regional players

• ChildAid Ghana: Ghana-focused nonprofit working on child welfare, education, and community development. Comparable operating geography and beneficiary focus, though broader in scope than street-children-specific work.

Others

• UNICEF Ghana: UN agency delivering child-rights programming in Ghana across health, education, protection, and inclusion. Functions as a funder/policy actor in the same Ghanaian child-welfare ecosystem rather than a direct operational competitor.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@chanceforchildren_ghana
• Facebookfacebook.com/chanceforchildrenghana
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/chance-for-children-foundation

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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