1. ADOLESCENT REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS EDUCATION FOR YOUNG ADULTS
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Region: Volta         District: Hohoe         Town/Village: Hohoe
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2. INCREASING ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE AND INCREASE COMMUNITIES’ CAPACITY TO MANAGE PREVENTABLE DISEASES
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Region: Volta        District: Akatsi        Town/Village: Ave Afiadenyigba
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3. IMPROVING MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTHCARE
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Region: Greater Accra        District: Dangme West        Town/Village: Dodowa ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

4. EMPLOYABLE SKILLS TRAINING FOR POOR URBAN CHURCH WOMEN 
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Region: Greater Accra        District: ABOKOBI        Town/Village: Abokobi
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5. SAFE PLACE/HOUSE FOR ABUSED CHILDREN
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Region: Volta        District: Hohoe        Town/Village: Hohoe
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6. CAPACITY BUILDING FOR WOMEN IN ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS AND THE PROVISION OF AGRO-PROCESSING EQUIPMENT TO WOMENS GROUP
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Region: Volta        District: Hohoe        Town/Village: Fodome
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7. CHILD RIGHTS PROGRAMMES FOR SCHOOLS
Region: Volta and Eastern        District: West Akim        Town/Village: Hohoe, Owuram
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8. HIV/AIDS PREVENTION AND TRAINING FOR YOUNG ADULTS
Region: Volta District: Kpando, Hohoe        Town/Village: Anfoega, Vakpo, Hohoe, Kpando
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1. ADOLESCENT REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS EDUCATION FOR YOUNG ADULTS;

Programme Goal: To improve the reproductive health care of the Ghanaian adolescents aged 10-24.

Specific project Objectives are to:

• Advocate for action on adolescents’ reproductive health rights and access to information and services.
• Increase access to comprehensive sexuality education, peer education and counseling for adloecents, to enable adolescents makes healthy and responsible decisions about their sexuality.
• Promote access to resource materials, including adolescent health journals, books, and video films.
• Provide reproductive healthcare services specifically designed for adolescents, as well as referrals to adolescent-friendly institutions for further care.
• Create opportunities for the empowerment of adolescents.

Activities:

1. Establish an adolescent/youth friendly Centre in Hohoe to provide; Counseling, Training, Video, films, Library, Recreation and Referrals
2. Community sensitization programmes on Adolescent Reproductive health care issues
3. Capacity building for teachers and parents on Adolescent Reproductive Health
4. Vocational skills training in computer literacy, theater performance and public speaking skills.

Project Status: Completed but project still running

Partner: French Embassy, Ghana

Project Outcome: A multi purpose youth friendly centre established in Hohoe 1,700 young people trained in counseling and peer education Some 490 young adults referred for reproductive healthcare Some 900 young people trained in HIV/AIDS prevention.

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2. INTEGRATED COMMUNITY BASED HEALTHCARE IN THE AVE AFIADENYIGBA TRADITIONAL AREA.

Background:
In recent years Ghana has made significant progress in improving several aspects of Health Care system, with the recent introduction of the National Health Insurance Scheme. Nevertheless, many poor and deprived communities in the Akatsi District of the Volta Region lack rudimentary access to appropriate healthcare services and a wide range of factors impair the healthy rights of poor women and children and otherwise disadvantage people to quality health care. This situation results in serious, negative consequences particularly for poor women and their children. In addition is the rapidly growing incidence of HIV/IADS with its associated consequences of care and support, which is already being faced by the people of Ave.

Project Objectives:

• Improve maternal and child health care in the Ave Afiadenyigba traditional area
• Identify and address factors that affect and hamper communities’ access to quality health care.

Activities:

• Construction of community health centre to provide quality and accessible health care
• Sensitize and educate communities on preventive health care and the need to report health problems to health centre on time
• Train community based health volunteer to assist community health workers manage and run health centre
• Build the communities capacity to manage the health centre
• Supply insecticide treated bed nets for pregnant women and children under 5years

Status: Ongoing

Partner: Action Medeor

3. IMPROVING MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTHCARE

Project Objectives:
Improve maternal and child health care services in Dangme west district

Activities:

• Identify and train 30 Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) in six communities
• Provide 30 TBA kits
• Train TBAs in income generating activities – backyard poultry and gardening

Project Status: Ongoing

Partner: Weltgebetstag

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4. EMPLOYABLE SKILLS TRAINING FOR POOR URBAN CHURCH WOMEN

Background:
Women in most Ghanaian society are by culture and tradition responsible for up bring of children, taking care of the family and many others. However, church women have a lot more responsibility than they can carry, aside of their personal family problems of education, healthcare and shelter the church women again contributes towards the care of other vulnerable children like abandoned and street children, AIDS orphans and now people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). The economic and social implication for the poor church woman is deepening poverty, stress and living in a vicious cycle of poverty.

Unfortunately majority of church women in city are unemployed or simply lack employable skills to meet the ever increasing challenges they face.

The overall goal of the project is to Empower Church Women to overcome poverty.

The project activities are;
Identify and train 60 women in two main employable skills;

• Baking and pastry making
• Beads and Batik making

Status: Completed

Partner: Mustard Seed Foundation

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5. CAPACITY BUILDING FOR WOMEN IN ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS AND THE PROVISION OF AGRO-PROCESSING EQUIPMENT TO WOMENS GROUP

Background:
Poor socio-economic status of rural women farmers in the Fodome Traditional Area Poor entrepreneurial skills and practices of rural women farmers in the Fodome traditional area Poor Income levels of rural women farmers in the Fodome traditional area

Overall Project Goal:
To improve the socio-economic status of rural women farmers in the Fodome traditional area.

Project Objective/Purpose:
To improve the income level of rural women cassava farmers in the Fodome Traditional area in Hohoe District

Output and Activities:
Output 1 – 3 women groups of 75 established and supported in cassava cultivation, processing and marketing

• Identify the existing groups and shortlist 3for project
• Register the groups for the project
• Go through Orientation
• Training
• Complete project application forms

Output 2 – 25 hectares of cassava cultivated

• Facilitate land acquisition by approaching respective land owners
• Support in land preparation and planting through payment of labour and supply of cassava stems

Output 3 – 1 Gari Processing Plants established

• Identify sites for installation of Gari processing equipment
• Construct Shed to house the equipment
• Purchase the equipment
• Installation of Equipment
• Training in equipment use and simple maintenance for processing group

Output 4 – 1 Group established and supported for marketing Gari and other cassava products

• Training in Micro enterprise management
• Supported with revolving fund

Output 5 – Training Programme

• • Non-formal and functional literacy classes for all women groups focusing reading and writing for six months in the evenings between 7and 8.30 pm 3 times a week
• Training in cassava cultivation for farming group
• Training in cassava processing and marketing for processing group
• Training in Bookkeeping and record keeping for 3 groups
• Micro-enterprise management - Entrepreneurial skills

Status: Completed but project still running

Partner: gorta.org

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6. SAFE PLACE/HOUSE FOR ABUSED CHILDREN

Project Summary:
An issue which has become a menace in recent times in Ghana especially the Hohoe District is abuse of children especially sexual abuse/defilement of young girls. CARE NET is a non-profit organisation and runs a Youth friendly Centre in Hohoe which provides reproductive healthcare information and services such as library, video films, counselling, referrals and recreation to young people. On the average some 60 young people use the centre every other day. Young girls account for about 80% of all our clients using the various services on a daily basis at the centre. Since 2004 when the centre became operational, there has been a high reported case of Sexually Transmitted Infections among young girls aged 9-17 using the Sexual Reproductive Health counselling service and our SRH and referral data from June 2004 – June 2006. Whiles there has been some reported cases of sexual abuse of girls in the Hohoe District, no reliable data however exist to develop appropriate interventions.

Against this backdrop CARE NET commissioned a facility based survey in October 2006 to June 2007 targeting young children especially girls aged 9-17.

The purpose of the survey was to,

• Establish the current level of abuse of children especially sexual abuse among young girls
• Provide some data for developing interventions
• Provide baseline against which future intervention can be measured and evaluated
• Provide evidence for advocacy for increased support for children especially the girl child.

It is against the background that CARE NET GHANA is proposing this project to offer support through an integrated approach – counselling, legal aid services, temporal shelter and rehabilitation to children of abuse, especially sexual abuse.

Physical, sexual, and emotional abuse of children of school age in the Hohoe Municipality is often perpetrated by people they know and occurs mostly in their homes and schools. There are frequent reports in the media of male teachers, family members and friends sexually assaulting young girls. Girls are often reluctant to report the abuse to their parents, social pressure and associated stigma often prevents them from going to report to the authorities like the police. A 2006 facility based conducted by CARE NET indicated that 37 percent of school girls interviewed stated their teachers had pressured them for sex, 35 percent stated they know at least one teacher having an affair with a school girl, and 69 percent stated they were sexually harassed by male classmates.

As one of the first signatories to the Conventions on the Right of the Child and on the Elimination of all forms of Violence and Discrimination against Women, Ghana has a commitment to universal education, gender equality and empowering of women. This is evident in the various domestic policies and laws to protect and promote the rights of women and children. Yet, a review of the progress in universal primary education and initiatives undertaken in gender equality indicate that the gains achieved are not commensurate with input.

Project Objectives are;

1. To offer support to survivors of child abuse through an integrated approach

• Counselling
• Temporal Shelter
• Rehabilitation
• Legal aid services

2. To provide training in counseling to community volunteers, peer counselors and teachers.

3. To increase opportunities that will create a forum for sharing ideas, experience and learning about Child rights issues among community members (students, parents, teachers and other stakeholders).

Activities:

• Sensitize the school community on safe house, what it is, the effects, and what it does. • Provide training in counselling skills.
• Set up efficient counselling and legal aid services
• Employ case managers, train them and
• Set up a Safe house in Hohoe and other local communities through franchising

Through this program, we hope to create / increase awareness about the existence of Safe house in Hohoe and the proposed communities through a sensitization outreach as our initial step towards addressing the issues of child abuse. This will be achieved through partnership with other organisations and advocacy.

Expected outcome CARE NET Safe House will be located in Hohoe to offer support primarily to survivors of Child abuse and violence. Services to be offered at the Safe house will include psychological, medical referral, legal counseling and other support services to survivors of violence, especially those from extremely poor backgrounds. It is expected that through the provision of holistic, confidential and centralized support services to survivors of child abuse it will be possible to have a direct and positive effect on their well-being and development.

Status: Open and at preparatory stage

Partners: We invite interested partners and donors to contact us.

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