The ‘‘HAGIFT Project’’ (Help Adolescent Girls In Form Three)

Project Theme:

Education and Mentoring

Project Amount (U.S. dollars):

$ 5,000.00 (Five Thousand U.S. dollars)
    

Project Need: 

In our community some girl adolescents and children are left to their faith with no parental guidance after classes. This results in zero percent qualification to the BECE (Basic Elementary Certificate of Education), thus none gets admitted to the senior high secondary school. They drop out and they are left to the various harmful societal vices. We were looking for a way to reduce the precocious pregnancy and unsafe abortion rate among the girl child in the community and this project will help us increase their stay in the academic ladder a bit longer than what is prevailing now.
  

Target Audience:

Our target audience is the girl adolescents between ages 12 to 16 as most of them drop out at Junior High Secondary (JHS) level and cannot continue their education or training. Considering the fund available only 50 girls in the schools are benefit from this HAGIFT project for now but as funding increases the number will also be increased to cover the JHS 1 and 2. Indirectly, the other students in the school especially in JSS 1and 2, the parents, the group and the community as whole will benefit tremendously, as they will be comparable to those students in big cities who are much advantaged.  Some stakeholders like the assemblyman of the area, the constituency member of parliament and some opinion leaders who also lamented at the low level of the students qualification express interest and promise to help whenever the project comes off.

Project Summary:

Goal

Increase qualification of the girl adolescents to the Senior High Secondary (SHS) and Vocational Schools.   

Objective
The girls will pass the BECE Examination with aggregates below 24 and be placed in SHS and vocational schools.

Project Location:

The HAGIFT project will be implemented in Afedome local authority JHS and EP primary and JHS school in the village of Tegbi in the Keta Municipal Assembly, Keta, in the Volta Region Ghana.

Project Activities/Timeline:

1. Monday 13th August 2012     - Meeting with School Authority and JHS Teachers - EP Primary & JHS
2. Wednesday, 15th August 2012- Meeting with the JHS students
3. Thursday, 16th August 2012   - Meeting with the students parents and guardians - EP Primary & JHS
4. Monday, 20th August 2012     - Community Awareness - Tegbi Community, Tegbi
5. Tuesday, 21th August 2012     - Normal class teaching and extra classes
6. – Every Saturday morning classes facilitated by staff and volunteers of RuralAid NGO in the following subjects: Mathematics, ICT, English, French, Ewe, Science, Social Studies, Pre-Technical Skills, Religious and Moral Education,
7. - Monthly revision and test assessments

The organization:
The Rural Aid Restoration (RuralAid NGO) is a non- governmental organisation founded in May 2007, started in Accra at Nima Mamobi as a community organisation to help the flood victims by opening up chocked gutters and cleaning up the community, encouraged by the Disaster Volunteer Group (DVG) of National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO). In April 7, 2011, it has been incorporated under the Companies Code 1963 (Act 179) and bears the present name with registration number G – 36,199 to fully help and equip young men and women in acquiring some employable skills through education, training in ICT and vocational skills in the communities. It assists community members in disaster prevention and management, gives them support in education, health issues, trading and financial aid. Also RuralAid campaigns against domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse.

Our project team consists of resourceful, detail oriented, self motivated, confident, hard working staff and teachers very inclined and experienced in teaching the SHS and JHS subjects. Some of them are members of the Ghana Education Service (GES) and facilitate access to information related to the teaching field.

We have : 2 - graduate teachers very efficient and organized professionals with 5 years extensive experience in the teaching of  Mathematics, Science, English and Social Studies;  2 –Trained Teachers who teach French, Pre-Technical Skills, Religious and Moral Education; 3 – Volunteer and People Teachers in ICT, Ewe and 2 –Volunteer nurses, very persuasive and verbal communicators who educate on reproductive health issues.

Evaluation Plan and Sustainability:

We are using the number of girls that qualify to enter Senior High Secondary (SHS) and vocational Training institute with total aggregate below 24 as indicator for measuring our success, Monthly revision and test assessments are used to monitor the progress and effectiveness of our teaching method. The project will be sustained on the volunteer fees, other donor supports and fund generated through our cultural dance exhibition and basket weaving activities. We are also looking around for other grants that could enable us sustain and expand this laudable project for a very long time after which it will be handed over to the community members but still under our supervision.

Project Leader Contact Information (phone, e-mail, fax, etc.):

Mobile:   0023324 3149600                   

Email: ruralaidrestoration@yahoo.com          

Address: P.O Box GP 18496 Accra

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