Families come to Ghana from the UK, Germany, the United States, Canada, Nigeria, South Africa and beyond. The most common worry is not cost or care, it is distance: can this really be managed from four thousand miles away?
Mostly, yes. Here is what that actually looks like, and where the genuine complications sit, which is usually at your end rather than ours.
What happens without you leaving home
- The consultation, by video, at a time that works across your timezone
- Reviewing screened surrogate or donor profiles and discussing matches
- Agreements and counselling arrangements
- Pregnancy updates, scan results, and regular contact with your case manager
Your case manager is reachable on WhatsApp, which in practice is how most international families prefer to stay in touch. You are not waiting on office hours in another timezone to hear how a scan went.
When you actually need to be in Accra
This depends on your programme. If you are providing your own eggs or sperm, you will need to travel for collection unless you are shipping material from a clinic at home. If you already have embryos elsewhere, we coordinate shipping instead, and that trip disappears.
The visit most families do not want to miss is the birth. We help with timing, accommodation, and getting you to the right place at the right moment.
Accra is an easy city to arrive in. English is the working language, direct flights come in from most European hubs, and we arrange pickup, accommodation guidance, and someone with you at clinic appointments.
The part that needs your attention at home
Here is the honest warning, and it is the one thing we would want you to take from this page: the hardest part of an international surrogacy is usually not the surrogacy. It is your own country's rules on bringing the baby home and recognising you as the legal parents.
Those rules vary enormously. Some countries handle it routinely. Others require a specific process that must be started before the birth, sometimes before conception. Getting this wrong is expensive and distressing in a way that no agency can fix afterwards.
So: speak to a family lawyer in your own country, specifically one who has handled international surrogacy, before you commit to anything anywhere. Do that first, not last. Any agency that waves this away is one to avoid.
Choosing a clinic and an agency from a distance
- Ask who performs the medical work, and whether you can see the clinic's credentials
- Ask how surrogates and donors are screened, and who is turned away
- Ask for the cost breakdown in writing, itemised, before you commit
- Ask what happens if a transfer is unsuccessful
- Ask to speak with your actual case manager, not just a sales contact
- Ask how your data is handled, particularly medical records crossing borders
We are a consultancy, not a clinic, and we say that deliberately. The medical work is done by licensed professionals at partner clinics in Accra. Our job is to coordinate them on your behalf and to be on your side of the table, including when that means telling you something a clinic would rather we did not.
Data and privacy across borders
You will be sending medical records and personal details to another country. Ask how they are stored and who sees them.
For our part, what you submit goes to our coordination team, is used only for the purpose you gave it, and is never sold or shared without your permission. We operate in line with Ghana's Data Protection Act, 2012 (Act 843).
Start with a conversation
A consultation costs nothing and commits you to nothing. Plenty of people use one simply to find out whether Ghana makes sense for their situation, and some conclude it does not. We would far rather tell you that early than take you halfway down a road that was never right for you.
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