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Projects:
Ghana Orphanage Assistance

Project Number: GOA 1
Start Date: December 2007
End Date: Ongoing

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 without 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.

Project Number: GOA 2
Start Date: October 2009
End Date: Ongoing

Teepalig Gbeogo Center For The Empowerment of Street Children Orphans (TG-CESCO) Upper East Region, Ghana

LVP discovered TG-CESCO through friends who mentioned a desperately poor elderly man and his wife taking care of 23 orphans in a remote farming village in northern Ghana. We traveled there to meet the couple and “their children.”

We had heard from our contacts that the children did not have clothes or malaria prevention nets and that this was the greatest need at the moment. We delivered needed clothes and distributed mosquito nets against malaria. We assessed the situation for further need-based aid and will continue to assist TG-CESCO in 2010.

Project:
Orphans Book Project

Project Number: OBP
Place: Upper East Region, Ghana
Start Date: February 2005
End Date: August 2007 - Closed

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.