Completed and Ongoing Programs
- Adolescent reproductive
health and rights project
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- Increasing access to
healthcare in the Ave traditional area
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- Improving maternal and
child healthcare
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- Employable skills
training for poor urban youth
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- Capacity building for
women in entrepreneurial skills
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- HIV/AIDS prevention and
training for young adults
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- Care Net Community
Hospital
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1.
Project Title:
Adolescent Reproductive
Health And Rights Education For Young Adults
Partner: French
Embassy, Ghana
Duration:
Twelve calendar months
Status: Completed
and still running
Location: Hohoe,
Volta Region
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.
- 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:
- Establish an adolescent/youth
friendly Centre in Hohoe to provide; Counseling, Training, Video,
films, Library, Recreation and Referrals
- Community sensitization programmes
on Adolescent Reproductive health care issues
- Capacity building for teachers and
parents on Adolescent Reproductive Health
- Vocational skills training in
computer literacy, theater performance and public speaking skills.
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.
Project Title:
Integrated community based healthcare improvement (ICB-HIP)
Partner: Action
Medeor, Germany
Duration:
Twelve calendar months
Status: Ongoing
Location: Ave-Afiadenyigba,
Volta Region.
Project Summary:
Ghana has made significant progress in
improving several aspects of Health Care system, with the recent
introduction of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).
Nevertheless, many poor and deprived communities in the Akatsi District
of the Volta Region like the Ave traditional area lack rudimentary
access to appropriate healthcare services. There are high incidences of
maternal and child mortality according to findings of a pre-project
feasibility and a wide range of factors impair the healthy rights of
poor women and children. Malaria related mortality remains unacceptably
high and accounts for more the 57% of all out patient cases in the
district This program is aimed at improving maternal and child health
in the Ave traditional area through increasing access to quality
healthcare for the people through the construction of a community
health centre.The health centre is expected to increase access to
quality healthcare and provide the following services
- Maternal and Child healthcare
(pre-natal, delivery and post natal care)
- Diagnosis and treatment of common
disease (malaria, anemia etc)
Care Net will also educate the
beneficiary communities to utilize the services of the heath centre and
also to register with the Health Insurance Scheme in order to enjoy
affordable healthcare. Care Net will also train traditional birth
attendants (TBAs) in hard to reach communities to act as primary
contacts for pregnant women and encourage TBAs to make prompt and
timely referrals.
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3.
Project Title:
Improving Maternal and
Child Healthcare
Partner: Women’s
World Day of Prayer, German Committee
Duration:
Twelve calendar months
Status: Ongoing
Location: Dangme
West, Greater Accra.
Project Objectives:
Improve maternal and child health
care services.
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
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4.
Project Title:
Employable Skills
Training For Poor Urban Church Women
Partner: Mustard
Seed Foundation, USA.
Duration:
Twelve calendar months
Status: Completed
and still running
Location: Ogbojo,
Greater Accra.
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
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5.
Project Title:
Care Net Community
Hospital
Partner: Local
Duration:
Twelve calendar months
Status: Completed
and still running
Location: Fodome,
Volta Region.
Summary:
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
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
Output 2 – 25 hectares of cassava cultivated
Output 3 – 1 Gari Processing Plants established
Output 4 – 1 Group established and supported for marketing
Gari and other
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6. Project Title:
HIV/AIDS Prevention and
Training
Partner:
Duration:
Status:
Location: Hohoe,
Volta Region
Programme Goal:
To raise HIV/AIDS awareness.
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