Education

We have helped some children go to school by securing scholarships for them from institutions like Save Ghana and we are also sponsoring some children in the senior high school ourselves. Currently we are working on securing scholarships from the Women Empowerment Foundation International (WEFI) for about ten (10) children in the Upper West region from the primary to the senior high school level.

We also have plans of adopting a daycare center in Tumu and turning it into a model school, set up motivation schemes that will encourage the teaching staff to build their capacity and give of their best in order to make these children a toast of the community.

We are equally working in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service to organize activities such as debates, spelling bee competitions, and essay writing competitions, all of which will help and encourage the children to read more and get a solid foundation in education.

Once the foundation is good you can be sure that these children will sail through and climb up the academic ladder with ease.

Mathematics has also been identified as a serious challenge for some of these children. We are in the process of setting up mathematics clubs in some designated schools in order to identify how we can help them pick up and understand and enjoy the subject.

We have also in collaboration with the Department of Social Welfare re-integrated about 300 kayayee (head porter girls) under 16 years of age into their communities in the 3 northern regions of the country. This exercise is an on-going activity. Once we identify those who want to go back home, we give them some skills training to equip them with the requisite skills to engage in self-employment in various vocations and other income generating activities. For those willing and able to continue with their education, we have helped them go back to school to continue with their education. We have chalked appreciable successes in this direction as well and we are hoping to do more in the future.

We hope your involvement will help us perform better than we are doing and also give us more ideas for the expansion and growth of the organization of which the ultimate winners will be the less privileged and vulnerable children.