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Emmanuel Yaw Dompreh, who grew up in Akim Oda himself, is a musician and trained refugee worker in Bremen (Germany). In Germany Emmanuel Yaw Dompreh has worked a lot with children in schools, in Bremen also with refugee children. He has the necessary logical contacts and will also recruit volunteers.
In Akim Oda there also many needy single mothers who could live on the property with their children and help out with food and lodging. For many women, that would be a great improvement in their life. At the beginning of the project, therefore, no teachers or coworkers would have to be hired.
The project would be known in Akim Oda through broadcast information and oral propaganda. Just the prospect of a hot meal and some clothing, but also games and music making would arouse the interest of many children and their mothers.
The team
Back home in Africa, those who leave are often seen as failures or frauds who allegedly just don’t want to share the supposed “wealth” of someone who has emigrated to Europe. Many of those who leave later end up with a broken biography.
Strangers in Europe, not understood in Africa.
Yaw Emmanuel Dompreh and his team help people in his home country to understand that emigration, leaving for Europe, is in most cases an inadvisable alternative and should be ruled out as an option.
A life plan that is geared towards achieving a satisfactory, sustainable alternative for one’s own future and provision in one’s own country is an urgent prerequisite for this. We support the children in making fundamental preparations for a future in their own country.
Yaw Emmanuel Dompreh has provided the foundation with the shell of a house in Akim Oda, which we have developed into the central facility for our partnered associations using our own funds.
He is the chairman of the NGO – Make it a Life Foundation – in Ghana and, in close cooperation with the treasurer and secretary of the NGO based in Akim Oda, James Alexander Aitee, who lived in Switzerland for a long time and ran his own cab business there, coordinates and manages the processes required to implement our goals in Ghana.
History
Foundation of a friends’ association for the support of needy single mothers and their children in the area of Akim Oda, Ghana, under the consideration of – help foe self-help -. Special attention will also be pointed on the support of girls. Accompanying and supporting their normal school education, the children single mothers should be given expanded, practical knowledge to primarily stabilize their everyday lives, but also to provide them with depending knowledge of skills relevant to their future. The mainly needy single mothers should be given the opportunity to work, knowing their children are looked after. Respectively they should get start-up aid to achieve an income. The families often live in conditions where to some extend no regular meals, hardly any caring attention, nor adequate clothing are guaranteed.
The results of their school education are often characterized by large deficits. Although compulsory education is mandatory in Ghana, enforcement is deficient and, in many cases, results in children ending their schooling as illiterate. Knowledge should be imparted to the children, which later enables them to shape their own lives and not succumb to the consequences of poverty and lack of opportunities. As far as possible, ecological findings and country-specific, traditional conditions should be taken into account. Of course, the basics of hygiene and the ecological handling of the environment should be conveyed. The ultimate goal is to provide the single mothers and their children with the tools for a future that excludes poverty, dependency and emigration