Education and Literacy Programs
Many children, girls, and youth continue to be excluded from participating fully in education and careers, and Ghana is no exception. Girls’ participation in education is lower than that of boys. Additionally, early marriage is one of the common causes of this issue. This project seeks to ensure that children, girls, and all youth have equal access to quality education.
Literacy Program: There is a very low level of literacy in Ghana. Only 72% of adults in Ghana are literate, and 80% of those under twenty-five. Ghana is ranked lowest among the 76 world schools it assessed in terms of the quality of education. It takes students twelve years of education to achieve what students learn in six years in more advanced countries, and the rural areas are even more challenged. Over 400,000 children in Ghana are not enrolled in pre-primary education, that is 1 out of 4 children aged 4 – 5 years. Sadly, nearly 623,500 children of primary school age are still not enrolled in primary school. Also, over 20% of children with physical disabilities in Ghana are not attending school. 25% of the students drop out before reaching high school. The average girl in Ghana only receives four years of education because of child marriage, teen pregnancy, gender-based violence, sexual abuse, and exploitation.
Our literacy program activities include:
- Providing outreach to locate students not in school and connect them with educational resources.
- Providing educational materials to the local schools and students in deprived communities.
- Supporting teachers through high-quality training that focuses on the effects of trauma on their students and on themselves.
- Supporting teachers in dealing with their trauma issues through online counselling.
- Providing consultation to schools to provide trauma-informed education.
- Providing residential care for talented students who would have to drop out of school because of their living situation.
- Providing Information and communication technology training to teachers and their students.
- Research the factors that contribute to low attendance and low success rates of girls and develop strategies to combat these factors.
Let Girls Excel Africa Program
The world all over, supporting young girls is a proven precondition for development all around the world. When girls are healthy and educated, the entire society benefits from economic growth, reduced poverty, and improvements in children’s well-being to bolster the prospects for the next generation. Despite the current global advancement in all spheres of lives, girls, particularly those in Ghana continue to face many challenges that limit their access to education, career development, and a decent social life. The challenges of girls in Ghana in particular start right from childhood as around 25% of girls in Ghana are forced into being married before the age of 18 years. Also, the critical challenges that confront most girls in their teens are the lack of education support, forced marriage, sexual harassment, lack of mentoring, leadership and career development and support, and menstrual care in terms of menstrual education and access to menstrual care products.
This program is designed to provide vulnerable girls the opportunity to access:
- Education support
- Mentoring
- Leadership training, career development and support
- Menstrual care education and access to free menstrual care products and
- General health and welbeing education and support
Women's Economic Empowerment Programs
This project aims at support vulnerable women and their families to gain economic independence.
In Ghana, over 46% of businesses are owned and operated by women. This is one of the highest percentage in the world of women-operated businesses. However, lack of confidence, training, funding, and cultural and religious beliefs are barriers for women. There is an absence of support from men with intimidation and harassment that keep these struggling women working in businesses that do not provide consistent income. most women face sexual and gender-base violence and the tend to suffer in silence. Often, most vulnerable women are unable to provide even one meal a day for their family.
This project aim to promote and support women economic and human rights. The project also support women by expanding opportunities through developing income-generating businesses and careers is a major goal.
Sustainable Environment Programs
Of all the continents, Africa is the most affected by climate change. The lack of education and the needed emphasis on day-to-day survival leaves protecting the environment a low priority for many vulnerable Africans.
For many generations, natural resources have been plundered from Ghana. Declining rainfall levels, deforestation, severe weather, water and air pollution, illegal mining, poor plastic and general waste management continue to pose threat to lives, communities and the environment.
Our environment work includes:
- Advocacy
- Providing sustainable environment and climate education.
- Providing resources to clean rivers of waste and again make them safe for use and habitable for aquatics.
- Advocating for better waste management, particularly around plastics.
- Providing water resource management and developing strategies to provide clean drinking water.
- Planting trees on riverbanks.
- Promoting clean energy.