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Help Underprivileged Children in Ghana

Summary

This project provides scholarship education for underprivileged children in Gbawe, Ghana and seeks to create a learning center for children in the community. progress reportread updates from the field


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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The foundation is responding to educational needs for underprivileged children at Gbawe community and in rural areas of Ghana. Currently it is giving scholarship for four kids and with intention to extend it to eight children in Gbawe community. The project is seeking for help to acquire a plot of land to provide a scholarship learning centre to accommodate the children we are sponsoring and other orphans and underprivileged children to receive quality education.

Activities

Acquisition of plot of land for scholarship school complex for orphans and underprivileged children. Creation of scholarship fund for orphans and underprivileged children. To purchase a plot of land to provide a learning centre for the children.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £2,020
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £8,644
Total Funding Goal: £10,664

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Excel file (projdoc.xls).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The project strives to provide quality education for the children in needs, to improve their health and social conditions, attitude changes and increased self-esteem, an increased sense of belonging within the communities

Project Message

We accept all persons, irrespective of race, religion, or circumstance to make a difference in the lives of those in need. Rebecca McCarthy- (Philip, thank all for me, who have come to Erica's aid.)
- Philip Kyei Appiah, Co-Founder/Exective Director

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Philip Appiah,
Founder
P.O. Box ML 657
Mallam-Accra, 00233
Ghana
+233243703420
Email:

Project Sponsor

Philip Appiah

Organisation

Paajaf Foundation
P.O. Box ML657 Mallam
-, - ACC89
Ghana
+233243703420
http://www.paajaf.org

Learn more about Paajaf Foundation and the project team.


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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Ghana and can also be found under Children.

For more information about Ghana, read the Human Development Report on Ghana or the Wikipedia entry for Ghana.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 02, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on March 19, 2009.

Latest Update from the Field

Grassroots Education at its Best

By Lorraine O'Neil - In-the-Field Traveler, June 21, 2010 03:44 PM

English ClassSchool is FunGroup Shot!

Alex, the fifty-something, volunteer teacher for the Pajaaf Foundation, wrote on the board: When to use “has” vs. “have”? What is the difference between “pit” and“pet”? Make sure you can pronounce your “ar” sounds…car, star, bar…etc. About twenty students sit in groups ordered by their English proficiency. Alex goes around and addresses each group, helping pupils (ages eight to mid-forties) complete the appropriate assignments. While they work Alex stands at the front of the class the conductor of a beautiful cacophony of English.

The students that benefit from the Pajaaf Foundation’s English classes commit to attending classes three nights a week(Mon, Wen, and Fri). The Pajaaf Foundation rents the schoolroom, the English lessons are free and open to whoever would like to attend, and all teachers are volunteers. The Foundation has been offering these classes for three years to over 65 pupils; one can sense the camaraderie in the room that has developed over years of traversing the complex English language.

Alexis and I talked with Hannah and Madam Dina, two ladies that have been learning English from the Pajaaf Foundation for two years. Both wanted to learn English so that they could be more competitive in the job market. They were shy at first, but after a few minutes they were speaking splendid intermediate English. Hannah who looks like she is in her mid-twenties sells tea, and Madam Dina hopes to open her own business as well as one day visit her brother in England.

The Pajaaf Foundation also gives scholarships to vulnerable children for them to attend private school (school with under 50 students per class). We met two of the four children who the Pajaaf Foundation currently support. In this post I will introduce Josilene. She is an orphan; and lives with her aunt who has four children besides her. Josilene has a mischievous smile, which is even more adorable since she is missing her two front teeth. She kept poking me while I was sitting at the desk and then running to hide. I believe she is only five or six years old, and can already say many simple English phrases. It is important to see the community taking care of its orphans.

Both Alexis and I strongly endorse the Pajaaf Foundation. Philip, the Ghanaian co-founder we met, was inspired to start the foundation because he had to work three jobs to support his own way through school. When he got out of school he wanted to reinvest in his community and give children and adults the opportunity that he never had – a free, quality education. The Pajaaf Foundation is grassroots development at its best, an individual who sees their community in need, and then takes it upon them self to help meet the community’s needs. If you are looking to invest in a worthy grassroots organization with little to no overhead expense, look no further.

Lorraine and four other In-the-Field Travelers are currently in Ghana before they are making their way to Mali and Burkina Faso. They'll be visiting more than 30 GlobalGiving projects in the next month. Follow their adventures at http://itfwa.wordpress.com/.

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