Project:
Ghana Orphanage Assistance
Project Number: GOA
Start Date: December 2007
End Date: Ongoing
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Tutu Orphanage – Eastern Region, Ghana
This orphanage is located in the small, poor farming village of Tutu in the Eastern Region of Ghana, and has 50 children. We decided to help sponsor this orphanage after learning that many of the children suffered from malaria and malnourishment. Although registered with the Ghana government as an official orphanage, they have received no financial assistance.
The orphanage originally started with just ten children a few years ago; then quickly jumped to 25 children; and now supports 50 children! With no budget for food or medicine; the founder, Madame Sofayia, has done her best to provide these children with a safe home and adequate food. She even acts as their school teacher, providing them with free basic education, but the sheer number of children she is caring for is beyond her ability with our help.
When LVP volunteers discovered many of the children of the orphanage hungry and bed-ridden with malaria, we delivered sacks of rice and supplied all of the children with Insecticide Treated Nets.
The goal of this project is to offer monthly food aid to the orphanage until other, outside funding is secured.
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Project:
Orphans Book Project
Project Number: OBP
Place: Upper East Region, Ghana
Start Date: February 2005
End Date: August 2007 - Closed
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The Orphans Book Project - Northern Ghana
The Orphans Book Project provided on-going shipments of educational reading materials to a non-profit center for orphans in northern Ghana. The center we worked with was started in part to help orphans with basic education and vocational training, but like so many other NGOs in West Africa, they had very limited financial resources. We found that many of the orphans we met, ranging in age from 7-17, were very eager to read, but due to the scarcity of books, they had very little opportunity to increase their level of literacy and education. Through providing books on a variety of subjects for the past three years, we assisted the non-profit center for orphans in building a library which can improve their education and give them an opportunity to expose themselves to new ideas and gain valuable skills to create a better future for themselves.
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