About Us

Maranatha Beach Camp is located 2 hours east of Accra in the small town of Ada-Foah. We are on the Volta estuary in the small fishing community of Kewunor

Our camp is situated just metres from the sea on the banks of the Volta river. We have 30 rustic huts containing single or double beds with mosquito nets. We also have dorm rooms available for larger groups.

When you have arrived at the camp you can sit back and relax with a beer or soda, enjoy a meal at our restaurant which serves a variety of freshly cooked local food or take a swim in the Volta river which is clean and free of strong currents (we also have trained lifeguards on duty if you prefer a swim in the sea)

On Saturday nights you will find a bonfire and dancing, during the week it is quieter but there are board games to play or we sometimes show a movie at our restaurant.

If you prefer to explore we can arrange boat trips, excursions to the local markets and community tours around our village. Come between November and January and you may be lucky to see one of the 5 species of turtle who come visit us every year to lay their eggs on our beach.

If you want to stay longer you can take part in our volunteer programme. We have a variety of opportunities for you to help, either in our school or the local community.

Maranatha Beach Camp was set up by local man, Winfred Dzinado who saw the need to bring educational and economic opportunities to his community. He recognized that many of the village children weren’t attending school, partly as education wasn’t valued in the community or was not affordable and partly due to the 6km walking distance to the nearest school.

In 2001 he started to welcome guests to a small basic beach camp. He was literally a one man operation; collecting guests in his boat, washing all the bed laundry and cooking in the restaurant as well as giving community tours. At the same time he used the profits from the camp to establish a nursery school on the beach. It was a pretty simple operation with the children sitting under palm trees for their lessons. Maranatha Community School was born, but it was the start of a bigger dream. Over the years that one class has expanded into eight completed (three uncompleted) classrooms and around 400 children, aged 4-15 years, from Winfred’s community and the nearby islands. With the help of international volunteers, a British based organization, Madventurer, the Dutch organization Ghana Gangers and a Gibraltar charity Help me Learn Africa, there is now a brick school building, a library and toilets. The government supplies nine teachers and a headmaster but profits from the Maranatha Beach Camp pay the salaries of six community teachers and the maintenance and upkeep of the buildings