Misthy Cee Children's Support Centre, Ghana

Summary

Helping poor and vulnerable children, some with disabilities and most orphaned, this centre provides love, support, accommodation, meals and schooling for more than 175 children. progress report read updates from the field

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The Centre is a registered Ghanaian charity set up by Siaka Stevens in 2001, dedicated to helping disadvantaged children. Near the small town of Akomadan it has on an acquired 6 hectare plot, a centre where needy children are cared for, accommodated if necessary, supported and schooled. We have been involved there since 2006, helping first to build accommodation, dining, kitchen and washroom facilities; we then helped building the school which is now complete and in use, helping 175 children.

Activities

We plan to help very soon with teaching training and support. The school will generate income from the community to support itself and other aspects of the work of Misthy Cee.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £5,084
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £11,939
Total Funding Goal: £17,023

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

We are very impressed with the enthusiasm, dedication and hard work of the local team, and feel confident that this resource centre will benefit a large number of children by giving them loving encouragement in the difficulties facing them everyday.

Project Message

I suffered a disability as a child (polio of the leg) and so I can understand the problems which many children in our community suffer, and I want to help them.
- Siaka Stevens, Misthy Cee Director

Who is Running This Project

Contact

David Steiner,
Chief Executive
PO Box 117
Monmouth, Monmouthshire NP25 9AR
United Kingdom
+44 1600 740317
Email:

Project Sponsor

David Steiner

Organisation

HANDS AROUND THE WORLD
PO BOX 117
MONMOUTH, MONMOUTHSHIRE NP25 9AR
United Kingdom
+44 1600 740317
http://www.hatw.org.uk

Learn more about HANDS AROUND THE WORLD 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 January 17, 2012.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on March 24, 2009.

Latest Update from the Field

Progress with both building and child care. A busy year ahead!

By Peter Elloway Smith - HATW link volunteer, project co-ordinating team, January 17, 2012 04:47 PM

Christmas Party

The past couple of months have been busy times at the Centre: the impressive pillars for the polytank have now been built (see photo), and arrangements will soon be made for the polytank to be delivered and installed; this will ensure that clean drinking water is always available for the children, as the mains water supply remains intermittent.

We are delighted that a new carer, Agartha, who has formal childcare qualifications, has agreed to work at the Centre, initially on a trial basis.

In addition, Misthy has been busy finding a builder and his team to build the kitchen and dining room which will serve both the Centre and the Misthy Cee Educational Complex (MCEC) school. Funds have now been sent for work to start on the foundations of the building, and we hope to share further details and some photos as the work progresses.

Misthy also received some money so he could buy food and drinks for the children and adults at the Centre to have a party at Christmas time, and the photo shows a number of the children dancing and having fun.

Although most reports from the Centre are extremely encouraging, the fact remains that the children have some very basic needs that are not being fully met. Misthy has identified mosquito nets, mattresses, sheets and pillows as particularly pressing requirements, and any financial help that our supporters worldwide can give would be hugely appreciated.

New water tank base

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