Proposal to Provide
Care for orphans in Ghana
Submitted by the Executive Director
EMMANUEL DZADEYSON
RURAL INTEGRATED RELIEF SERVICE-GHANA
(NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION)
P. O. BOX KN 1238 KANESHIE ACCRAGHANA
WEST AFRICA
TEL: +233-20-8943610/ FAX: +233-21-224695
EMAIL: reliefservice_africa@yahoo.com
http://www. http://africa-orphans.pledgepage.org
1.0 EXECTIVE SUMMARY
RURAL INTEGRATED RELIEF SERVICE- GHANA is a non-governmental, non-profit making voluntary developmet and services oriented organization based in Ghana.
The RURAL INTEGRATED RELIEF SERVICE- GHANA is seeking a grant amounting to £ 7500 to support our project in aid of orphans in Ugemonte orphanage center located in the Hohoe District of the Volta Region of Ghana.
It is expected that the provision of income generating skills training for Orphans and women of the area will help the youth to acquire a skilled training
The project will also help the RURAL INTEGRATED RELIEF SERVICE- GHANA programmed of offering training for senior and junior secondary school leavers and other school drop out in catering and tailoring/ dressmaking leading to national vocational training institutes certificate for further education at the polytechnics and colleges.
2.0 ORGANISATION INFORMATION
2.1 GENERAL INFORMATION
The RURAL INTEGRATED RELIEF SERVICE- GHANA is a non governmental organization (NGO) duly incorporated in Ghana in 2004 . It was founded by Six persons of responsible pedigreed who have distinguished themselves in private life. Mr Emmanuel Dzadeyson is the executive director of the organization.
Presently the following persons run the organization
Rev. Father John Amoah
Madam Janet Kponya
Rev. Sister Maru Anns Puozaa
Rev. Father Anthony Boahen
Nelly Zigason
Name Board of directors’ positions
Mr. Emmanuel Dzadeyson Executive Director
Mr. Charles K. Tang Executive secretary
Business man
Rev. Father John Amoah Projects Manager
A parish priest
Stephen K. Sedem Legal Affairs
Human rights lawyer
Mr. Anass Badaru Programme Coordinator
Madam Janet Kponya Secretary /Headmistress
Vocational Teacher
Rev.Sister Mary Anns Head catering and children affairs
Nun caterer
Mr Aaron Kwaku Darpoh Head financial matters
Accountant
RURAL INTEGRATED RELIEF SERVICE- GHANA also has five volunteers who are assisting in the execution of this project.
(b) RURAL INTEGRATED RELIEF SERVICE- GHANA mission is to provide employable skills to the women and the young ladies in the catholic church by way of training in various income generating trade such as sewing, weaving hairdressing , batik and tie-dye soap and pomade making , flower making gari processing , catering services and simple business mathematic and English language. To provide financial support to mothers craft education for teenage girls who find themselves in a position of pregnancy no matter the cuase.
2.2 PAST AND CURRENT ACTIVITIES
RURAL INTEGRATED RELIEF SERVICE- GHANA has been in the system since 2002 on a pilot base and now being incorporated in 2004. The programmed started with 20 trainees
And has since trained over 70 young girls and women who are doing very well with their newly acquired skill. The Institute runs the program in two fields. Short term training for adult and illiterate young girls and long term training for those who want to pursue higher education in their choosing career.
3.0 THE PROBLEM STATEMENTS
A Ghanaian philosopher an academic and a brilliant orator once said “if you educate a man you educate an individual but if you educate a woman you educate a nation”. This anthropological statement gives credence to our vision.
The education of a woman is one of the most powerful forces of development particularly in Africa where social welfare and economic an advancement are constrained by valid population growth and weakly developed human resources base.
Although there is increasing political recognition of the importance of women and children education care, it is realized that more action and experimental intervention should be appropriated to demonstrate simple but cost effective strategies.
In order to design high–impact and sustainable strategies in-depth analytical research is essential to understand obstacle to women and children education care, in communities where RURAL INTEGRATED RELIEF SERVICE- GHANA is located and operates
Our research has shown that the number of child non-maintained cases reported to the women and juvenile units of the Ghana police service was on the increase the unit recorded 2,065 cases as against 1,260 the previous year. While records at the department of social welfare reveals an increase of child non-maintenance cases from 1,213 in 2003 t0 3,889 in 2004 in a single region of the country and the percentage increase is almost the same in several other regions in the country. Causes of similar issues reported to Human Rights and Administrative Justice are more distasting and sympathic.
We have identified poverty on the parts of parents as the main causes of the problems. The organization has agreed with the opinion of the other research institution among other things that women should be empowered economically to support in the upkeep of family since women play a fundamental role in the upbringing of children.
It has also been found out that a strong correlation exist between nutrition and gender. The type of employment and income of women was shown to have impact on malnutrition’s. Regular in come for women reduced malnutrition in house holds as it improved women’s ability to take care for their families better. The most nutritionally vulnerable groups are infants, young children and women, particularly those who are pregnant or lactating.
The multifaceted nature of the cause of malnutrion has long been identified. This is characterized by immediate and underlying causes such as household food insecurity, inadequate care for women and children inadequate health services all due to poverty. The development of our human resource as a nation is hampered to a significant extent by problems associated with mal nutrition. Nutrition has taken center stage in world politics and it has been identified as key in realizing the United Nations millennium development goals which focuses among other on the improvement of nutritional status thorough poverty alleviation and general sustainable socio-economic improvement (esp. women economic empowerment) in politically congenial environments such as Ghana.
It was identified that the incidence of economic constrain made many young women involve themselves in premature sexual habits just to earn a little money for a living. In the process some of these young women become pregnant with no man accepting responsibility because they often engage in multiple sexual partners. Some end up in total prostitution hence risking their lives with deadly sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/AIDS. St James institute is the obvious choice for the solution of this canker.
Ghana labour force has grown tremendously over the past three decades without a corresponding improvement in the level of quality of employment .unemployment also grew from 2.5% for the labour force in 1984 8.6%in 2002. there also high level of underemployment among the labour force meaning a major human resource lost to the countries development such level of unemployment have an impact on poverty in Ghana. Sources, Ghana statistical services.
Another critical emerging problem is child labour. This is defined as any activity that is either economic or non-economic, that is too dangerous or hazardous and /or for activity the child is considered under-age, since it is likely to have deleterious effect on the Childs health, education, moral and also normal development.
The Ghana child labour survey conducted by the statistical service in 2001 found that 40% of the 6.4 million people aged 5-17 years in Ghana were engage in regular economic activity .child labour occurs in all regions of Ghana. Over 93%of children cited poverty as the reason for working. The income from theses children was not only to help their parent but also to pay their school fees. The incidences of child labour were greater in rural than in urban and involved male and females in almost equal proportion.
The rate of maternal death of 64/1000 is a major contributing factor to new babies being orphaned and preceding children being send away to work.
Theses figures gives and idea of the struggle to meet the basic needs of an entire household die to poverty.
RURAL INTEGRATED RELIEF SERVICE- GHANA is at the forefront of supporting orphans and vulnerable children with scholarship package and also offers its kills training for women and guardian to help alleviate the plight of families.
The organization orphanage center called Ugemote Orphanage located in the Volta Region.
Demographic statistics show that women and children formed three quarter of the country population and so the protection of their rights was critical to national development.
RURAL INTEGRATED RELIEF SERVICE- GHANA center operates. Records available e showed that the weekly collection and special contributions which is usually conducted male’s vs. Females in most churches, the males regularly contribute much more higher than the female.
The problem is that most of them have no profession, no quality jobs hence low income, and simply cannot give what they do not have.
Therefore the need for the institute to empower them with income generating
International donor agencies and developed nations design economic policies with conditionality that directly affects the vulnerable of African. This was further emphasized during the recent conference held in Nairobi, Kenya by the African women millennium initiative on poverty and human rights. The women have accused leaders of the continent of being responsible for the poverty and numerous problems facing it. They said borrowing of money from donor communities had led the continent to “an immoral and odious debt and derailing the development agenda. This according to them had denied hardworking Africans of honest wages for their labour.
Economic growth in sub Saharan Africa reached an eight –year high of five percent recently, according to a report by the international monetary fund (IMF).however the growth improvement recorded in economic performance are not enough to meet the United Nations millennium development goals for reducing poverty.
Expenditure cuts in relation to the African economic crisis and structural adjustment programmed imply that already impoverished households will continue to suffer if measure taken is not fully implemented.
RURAL INTEGRATED RELIEF SERVICE-GHANA programmed had been designed to complement our government efforts of tackling the issues thought its poverty alleviation strategies.
4.0 AIMS AND OBJECTIVE
4) To empower women and young girls, widows and teenage mothers with employable skills in vocational and catering services.
4.1) by empowering this largest group with income generating skill, they can contribute their quoter to the development of the church and improve their spiritual values and welfare.
4.2)to address the economic factor which is the major motive that drives females into prostitution, they engage in it to make ends meet due to the economic hardship in the society. With regular income generating skills the major channel of spreading sexually transmitted disease and HIV/AIDS, which is prostitution, could have been subsided.
4.3) to stop poor families from spending their little income in hospital with children due to mal –nutrition by way of equipping and teaching of how to prepare nutritious meals for the children for healthy life.
4.4)To support orphans and vulnerable children, in our areas of operations, with scholarship package such as provision of school uniforms ,bags footwear, reading material pens and pencils and payment of schools fees , so that the issues of child labour would be addressed.
4.5) to train senior and junior secondary school leavers and other school drop- out in catering and tailoring /dress making.
Leading to National Vocational Training Institute Certificate to enable them to pursue higher education at the polytechniques and colleges.
4.6) to teach honor, respect for oneself, other people and God.
4.7) our primary objective is to help improve the lost of woman, the youth and children to attain economic self-sufficiency and self reliance to alleviate poverty among them.
5.0 ACTIVITES
5.1) To periodically organize work shops and seminars for catholic and non-Catholics women and the youth in our operational areas on topics such as wealth creation effective team work, leadership skills and responsible parenting.
5.2) to organize activities that will help women and children kknow their civil rights and responsibilities with resources persons from National Organizations such as the Human Rights and Administrative Justices , Federation of women lawyers ,Ghana AIDS commission, child rights international ,etc.
To organize activities in loans procedures and banking and its advantages to organized groups from rural banks in the communities.
6.0) EXPECTED OUTCOME
It is expected that after a period of one years of the completion of the project more young women and other beneficiaries would have acquired vocational skills to enable them to be employable .some of them would have aqured equipment and materials to set up their own business in their respective trades to earn their living therefore unemployment and poverty in the church and communities of operation would have been curtailed and families will live a better life than before.
Trainees would have build better relations with God improve their spiritual values and enjoy the free loving favour of Christ.
Teenage pregnancy and its results of child non- permanence cases might have been reduced multiple sexual pastimes by to women earn money will stop and the chances of this habit resulting into professional prostitution might be halted.
Families would have acquired knowledge of modem method of cooking and other catering practices that would help eliminate malnutrition of children and child none manitaince cases will reduce.
Orphans and vulnerable children would have a better formal education and child labour would have been subsided.
By this same period, the impact of the whole programmed would have been felt hence the goal of the center.
7.0) SUSTANIANABILLTY
7.1) To be able to sustain the programmed to benefit other beneficiaries, a revolving loan scheme also will be introduce to the program.
7.2) The organization would advised its trainees to form association after graduation to enable them source loan from the rural bank and other micro-financing schemes to enable them stay in business.
8.0 PROJECT MONITORING AND EVALUTION
A brief baseline study will precede activities and would provide the bases for determine information required and expected outcome.
Day to day monitoring will be carried out by the project manager of the institute collaborating with the diocesan development project coordination donor agency will also carry out site visit to the project areas to ascertain progress problems and challenges and make recommendations.
Quarterly reports will determine the progress and performance of the organization.
Total project cost £ 10,000
Church contribution £1 500
Individual contribution £1000
Total contribution £ 2500
Total amount needed to be raised £7500
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