Dear friends,

with sadness in my heart I have to inform you that yesterday, on March 5th 2025, Simon Ngota has passed away. He struggled with his health condition over the past years and a few weeks ago he fell terminally ill.
Simon Ngota was born on October 28th in 1950 in Nortern Ghana near Garu. He was raised and trained in a catholic mission school. He devoted his life to helping outcasts. With Christoffel Blindenmission, he worked with blind people in an agricultural project. With the Gambaga Outcast Home Project, he improved the lives of hundreds of women accused of witchcraft and over the course of almost twenty years resettled hundreds of women to their former homes. He negotiated with chiefs and elders throughout the entire region. There is hardly a town or village in the Northern Region of Ghana, where he had not visited to help an elderly woman accused of witchcraft. With the Witch-hunts-Victims-Empowerment-Project, he continued his work in some of the most neglected areas of Ghana near Gnaani, Kpatinga, Nabule, Bimbilla. Simon Ngota shared his knowledge about the problem of witch-hunts in Ghana with journalists and authors, scientists and politicians, lawyers and priests. He is mentioned in many documentaries, books and radio-interviews.

We lost a great human, who will be rememberedas a friend and pioneer of social work with witch-hunt victims. We mourn with his family.

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