Poverty as a social problem is a deeply embedded wound that permeates every dimension of culture and society. It includes sustained low levels of income for members of a community, lack of access to services like education, markets, health care, lack of decision making ability and lack of communal facilities like water, sanitation, roads, transportation and communications. Furthermore, it is a "poverty of spirit," that allows members of a community to believe in and share despair, hopelessness, apathy and timidity.

Many Akuapem families are trapped in a cycle of poverty. Living at subsistence level, parents' ability to even enroll their children into secondary schools after their basic education is a dream difficult to realize. In many poverty-stricken communities, children out of school find themselves supporting parents to feed the family but in the Akuapem communities these children become way ward trying their hands on destructive endeavors like smoking, alcoholism, prostitution, just to mention a few. It is not out of nothing that the towns on the ridge experience high incidence of chieftaincy disputes – the citizens, especially the youth are disoriented. The youth are easily enticed to get on the wagon to fight for one cause or the other regardless of the ramification. If these youth are given the opportunity to become more expensive to fall for drug abuse, enticement for chieftaincy disputes, etc., they will be useful to the society and the country as a whole.

Gyase Charity Foundation (GCF) craves to make a positive difference in the lives of the deprived in the Akuapem community by providing high quality educational, cultural and social opportunities to root out ignorance, disease, apathy, dishonesty and dependency which are interlaced factors contributing to adverse poverty.

Akuapem Traditional Area extends from Berekuso, (some 20 kilometres from Accra the capital of Ghana) eastward along the Akuapem – Togo range of mountains, covers an area of about 900sq. meters with a current population of about 225,000 based on the 2000 census. The Gyase division of the Akuapem State – comprising Amanokrom, Dodowa and Adawso – is the custodian of Okuapehene palace regalia and paraphernalia.

GCF is a non government, non-profit organization working to enhance the lives of the citizens of Akuapem through engaging ideas and empowering them. The organization, under the kind tutelage of Nana Osim Kwatia II, is legally registered in Ghana to operate with the registration number G-XX,XXX.