Setting the pace for quality education

Sustainable Development Goal 4 looks at quality Education: that is Ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all. Achieving inclusive and equitable quality education for all will require increasing efforts, especially in sub-Saharan Africa for vulnerable populations, including persons with disabilities, indigenous people, refugee children and poor children in rural areas.

Washable sanitary pads for girls in Upper East

Great is the future of women and girls in Upper East Region. After our research, we realised that some girls stay from school because of Sanitary pads while others travel to the south( Kumasi and Accra ) to do street hawking. The future of our women should not be messed up because of this simple but necessary natural issue. Its been our vision to liberate these young girls from the pains of the month. We are so grateful to our PARTNERS for the support. Upper East, here we come with Days for Girls washable sanitary pads

BRINGING COMMERCIAL BANKING TO RURAL GHANA

Building the resilience of our women to with stand the stress of poverty is our fundamental pillar. This can only be done through skills development and savings. We are happy to partner ACCESS BANK GHANA, Bolgatanga Branch to educate our rural women on savings and financial inclusion. Through TTP support, we have brought Banking to the door steps of under privileged women and those considered unprofitable by traditional Banks. Before today, 99% of our women have never been to a bank and we are proud that 80 year Apoye Atampugbire now owns a savings account with Access bank Ghana and the rest of the women too. We believe that the savings is key to building wealth

Dorcas, a girl making a differene

We are grateful to TTP for funding our basket project in Ghana. Before we even made our first post, the Government of Ghana has recognized our work and our partnership with the TTP by publishing an article on our union on the Government Website. Thank you TTP and Government of Ghana. Here is the link:

http://www.ghana.gov.gh/index.php/media-center/features/3455-dorcas-apoore-the-mastercard-foundation-scholar-making-a-difference

Career guidance and transition program for Senior High Schools

A  Report on Transition Program at  Lawra  Senior High School and WA Senior High

‘Reach Out’ is an initiative of Camfed Ghana where Secondary Scholars have an interactive career guidance and counseling session with resource persons.

Centre for Skills Development and Waste Management

In today's world people can not survive without sustainable skills for livelihood support and development. It is imperative that people must develop skills apart from formal education. In Bolgatanga Municipal in the Upper East Region of Ghana, there is high level of poverty among the people especially women and the youth due to lack of skills. In a research conducted, most young people are unemployed because they lack skills in today's fast pace technological world. 

Plastic waste a curse to Africa

In the 21st century most Governments and cities in Africa are grappling with huge amount of waste generated. its is an undeniable fact that almost all Africa countries are struggling to deal with both plastic  and solid waste generated in the cities of which my beloved country Ghana is not exception. In fact, it is an eye sore in the major cities  such as Accra, Kumasi, Secondi Takarodi, Tamale Etc of how waste rubbers tend to be

New Technology in Waste Management

Upper East Region is engulf with extreme poverty that is affecting thousands of lives especially women.

Multi Dimensional Approach to Poverty Eradication

Poverty has been a canker which has destroyed many societies especially Africa in Particular.

It ruined a lot of people from a fulfilled life.  Words cannot describe the effects of poverty on an individual’s life unless one is in it. In this context, Advocacy for social Inclusion and Girls Education seeks to tackle this problem in three districts of upper east region of Ghana through a multi dimensional approach. 

Teenage Pregnancies: The case of Gloria

Teenage pregnancies have made a lot of young girls in the Upper East Region of Ghana to drop out of school.