Subsistence Farming

Agriculture provides one third of Ghana's income and employs more than half of the workforce.  However, subsistence farmers are increasingly vulnerable and constitute a large percentage of the country′s poor, as do female head of households.  Poverty is particularly acute and is increasing in the three northern savannah and central regions.

As a result, people live in cramped, squalid and often dangerous conditions.  Extended families of eight or more people often share one room.  Access to clean water and sanitation is scarce.  Female head of households have even less opportunity to own property or access education.

Leaking roofs and cracked walls are incapable of keeping out the heavy rains; and houses even collapse, causing death or injury to the occupants. The dirt floors are usually infested with parasites. Such conditions not only cause poor health, but also reduce capacity to work and escape the cycle of poverty. 
                              

                                                         

This is a photo of the kitchen at the FDMTS in New Ayoma. They prepare over 300 meals a day for the students that live on campus. Many times the school has to appeal to the refuge center for leftover food because of the lack of food supply at the school and also because of the lack of finances.

 

                                                                               

  Our main focus in Ghana is to give children a better future by offering a higher standard of education, and preparing them for the difficult world they are about to embrace as adults.

The School trains productive specialists in much needed fields such as Farming, Construction, Carpentry, Accounting, Office Skills, and Computer knowledge.

In 2003 the school entered the Ghana education public system and became part of the National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI).  It has trained many young men and women, some of whom are now self-employed. Others are employed by various organizations and government agencies.  .

       

 Some students at the school and students on right are the lucky scholarship recipients!

  This year we started a scholarship fund for some of the students. We currently have 19 students that are sponsored in this program. Fr Cletus had chosen these children based upon their familes ability to pay the tuiton and the learning ability of the students. The cost of their tuiton to live and eat on campus is only around $25.00 per month. Unfortunately many of the parents cannot afford this which created problems in continuing their education and maintaing the schools necessary finances for food, teacher salaries, and other necessities to survive. We are always looking for new sponsors.

                           OUR TUTORING PROGRAMS

 We have started a tutoring program at the Fr. Dolgi memorial Technical School in New Ayoma This program under the direction of Fr. Cletus Forson are to help children pass the government exam needed to go to the next level of education such as high school. We currently have 90 children in this programs under the direction of 6 teachers we have hired. If these children in the ninth grade do not pass this government test their opportunity for continuing their education is no longer available in the public school system in Ghana. We will keep you informed of their success!

 

 

 

 Photo's of some of the the students in the tutoring program