Community Development Challenge

Problems we are committed to solve includes                                                1 Poverty                                                                                                           These have manifested in girls coming to school in torn school uniforms, empty stomach, without sandals and sanitary pads.                                         2 Distance from home to school.                                                                          Most girls walk several miles from home to school.  They get to school tired and cannot concentrate in class ,most times they do not come to school at all because of the distance.                                                                      3 Teenage pregnancy                                                                                          This occurs when girls have unprotected sex  their male counterpart.      SOLUTIONS                                                                                                    1  We will supply the girls  with sanitary pads ,food, school uniforms and sandals                                                                                                               2 We will supply the  Girls coming from long distance community where there are no  school with bicycles                                                                           3 We will educate  and embark on an advocacy targeted at girls to abstain from unprotected sex                                                                                           Globally eliminating these hindrances will improve girl child education which will help them to get a brighter future .

1 Poverty : Most of the girls in our community especially in the rural areas are faced with financial problems which does not allow them to have access to quality education .this includes unavailability of learning materials . Added to this point most of the school girls can not be provided with one pack of sanitary pad during their menstruation period by their parent  or guardians.                                                                                                   2   We will supply girls coming from long distance community with bicycle.                                                                                                                         3 We will embark on  education and advocacy targeted at girls to abstain from unprotected sex.                                                                                              4 Cultural practices: In most of our communities it is forbidden to talk about sexual life ,so most of the girls do not know any thing about sex and their menstrual cycles implications.  

1 FOOD                                                                                                         2 SANITARY PADS                                                                                            3 SCHOOL UNIFORM  AND SANDALS                                                                   4 BICYCLES                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 FOOD                                                                                                    We will provide the girls with one hot meal daily.We will build a temporary structure to serve as a canteen for the girls to take their meals .We will engage a caterer to supply the meal daily.                                                                   SANITARY PADS                                                                                       We will engage a vendor to supply the girls sanitary pads monthly                            SCHOOL UNIFORMS AND FOOTWEAR                                                            We will engage a vendor to supply the girls with  school uniforms and footwear.                                                                                                                          BICYCLES                                                                                            We will engage a vendor to supply the girls with bicycle , that will enable them attend school daily and on time.         

Young girls of school going age from Upper Primary to Senior High School within the Nkoranza municipality.The population of Nkoranza South Municipality, according to the 2010 Population and Housing Census, is 100,929 . Males constitute 49.6 percent and females represent 50.4 percent. More than half (52.9%) of the population in the Municipality live in rural areas. The Municipality has a sex ratio of 98.4 and a youthful (41.4 percent of the population aged less than 15 years) population depicting a broad base population pyramid which tapers off with a small number Municipality and its surrounding villages.            FOOD: provision of food will be an incentive to keep in school.                                                                                           SANITARY PADS:provision of sanitary pads will help them keep their self clean from sickness  

LEARNING FOR GIRLS AND WOMEN OF SCHOOL GOING AGE WITHIN THE UPPER PRIMARY AND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL BRACKET.                                                     The problems we have identify are ;                                                                    poverty, distance from home to school ,teenage pregnancy and cultural practices.                                                                                                       Because of poverty girls come to school in a torn school uniforms and with out footwear.They become hungry because there is no food .They soil themselves in class  because they do not have sanitary pads,they walk long distances to school and they get tired and drop out of school because of pregnancy.                     providing uniforms,meals ,sanitary pads and sex education will address the challenges.

our innovation is a holistic approach to girl child education. We propose to supply uniforms, footwear , daily hot meal, sanitary pads  and bicycle to travel.We also offer sex education and propose cultural changes that engages the girl child in house chores during school hours.We acknowledge other competitors helping to improve girl child education.United nations international children's emergency fund[UNICEF] supplies school girls with folic acid to help in their menstrual flow,however the girls are not provided with sanitary pads to the girls absorb the menstrual flow.Government supplies one meal a day to selected schools.Government further supplies school uniforms to senior high schools.Our innovation will supply school uniforms and footwear to girls in upper primary to senior high schools,will also supply them with one hot meal a day eaten in the canteen but  not in the classroom.We will also supply bicycles to girl coming from distance places to enable them come to school everyday and on time .We will also offer sex education to the girls and the general public to avoid teenage  pregnancy leading to the girls dropping out of school.

phones                                                                                                           laptop                                                                                                            projector                                                                                                      table top computer                                                                                         taps                                                                                                                access to the internet

The cell phone .this help us to communicate to child whether she  is in school or not.                                                                                                 The laptop.this helps the student to learn typing and also access the internet.                                                                                                          The projector.this help in enlargement folders and it help them to draw.          

 THE INPUT AND ACTIVITIES                                                                                1  Feeding the girls one square meal a day.                                                     2 Supply girls with sanitary pads                                                                      3 Supply girls with school uniforms and footwear                                             4 Supply girls with bicycles                                                                              5  Give girls and the general public sex education                                           6 Educating the general public not  to engage girls in other activities during school hours.                                                                                             THE OUTPUT                                                                                              1 Girls well feld and concentrate actively in class                                           2 Girls are regular in school and have much confidence in class  and do not soil themselves in class and also engage in active activities                                3 Girl comes to school in new school uniform and footwear and every happy.                                                                                                                4 Girls from distance places come to  school regularly  and on time                              5 Girls understands their biological changes and are not dropping out of school because of pregnancy.                                                                              6  General public educated not  to engage girls during school hours.                       THE OUTCOME                                                                                       1   Girl child enrollment in will increase                                                          2     Girls will be very active in class                                                                 3     Girls will finished their education with out dropping out                            4     Girls are employed and earn good salary                                                  5    Girls leave better life and take good care of their families                             ACADEMIC JOURNAL ARTICLE                                                                         Educational Research Quarterly                                                                    Girl-Child Education Out com:A CASE STUDY FROM GHANA BY Arku,Frank S.;Angmor,Emmanuel N,;Tetteh,Isaac K.

1500 girls                                                                                                       3000 girls                                                                                                        10,000 girl

To assist all  school  going girls within the nkoranza municipality and ensure that each girl child has access to sanitary pads always .Girls will not come to school with torn dress or bear footed.Teenage pregnancy will be reduce to the barest minimum .Girls are fed at least ones a day whiles in school .Girl child enrollment keeps increasing.

Lack of funds to supply food ,sanitary ,uniforms and footwear .                       Lack of funds for education and advocacy                                                        lack of funds to purchase computers                                                                 lack of funds to construct temporary canteen

We apply for funds from organization to support our project

Full time workers = 12

Part time workers = 25

Other workers = 15

C E O                                                                                                              POKUAA PRISCILLA  .SHE HAS A DEGREE IN SOCIAL STUDIES ,SHE HAS A FIVES YEARS TEACHING EXPERIENCE.SHE TEACHES IN RURAL COMMUNITIES.               THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR   

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR     

 AGNES SEMANU AGBELENGOR.SHE HAS A DEGREE IN EDUCATION AND CURRENTLY THE HEADMISTRESS OF NKORANZA GIRLS MODEL JENIOR HIGH SCHOOL AND ALSO A POST GRADUATE STUDENT OF ADMINISTRATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST (UCC).  SHE HAS 17 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN TEACHING IN RURAL COMMUNITIES.

ORGANIZER

PRECIOUS FABEAH IS THE ORGANIZER OF THE ORGANIZATION . SHE HOLDS A DEGREE IN SOCIAL STUDIES. SHE HAS 5 YEARS EXPERIENCE AS A SOCIAL WORKER IN RURAL COMMUNITIES.   

        SECRETARY                                                                                                 ADJEI STEPHEN IS THE SECRETARY .HE IS  A MILITARY PERSONNEL 2 YEAR IN THIS INSTITUTION AND WITH 2 YEARS WORKING EXPERIENCE AS A SOCIAL WORKER IN RURAL AREAS .                    

We work with the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of lLoca Government. We also work with the Ghana Education Service.We work with both public and private schools.

The Ministry of Education owns the public schools and regulates all educationsal institutions in the country the Ghana Education Service.

The Ministry Of Education gives the permission and support to work with schools and support the girls,

The Ministry of Local Government regulates activities of all government agencies within the locality. They help us carry out our education and supply to the girls.

We work with the traditional authorities to acquire land to embark on our projects, We engage the Parent-Teacher Associations in the various schools to deliver our services.

We provide services to school going girls in rural communities. 

Due to poverty girls come to school in torn uniforms and without sandals or footwear. Providing school uniforms and footwear to these girls will make girl feel bold and come to regular and learn.                                                               Girls come to school on empty stomach without food and therefore can not concentrate in class and sometimes absent themselves from school .providing the girls  with one hot meal a day will be an incentive for them  to come school regularly they will also not be hungry and can concentrate during classes .                  Provision of sanitary pads to the girls will make them regular and confident to attend classes.Provision of bicycles to the girls will make them attend school on time .lastly,sex education will also enlighten  the girls to abstained from unprotected sex

We are looking at sustain donations and grant,                                                      we do not produce any product to sell neither do we sell our services .we rely on donations and grants ,we appeal to philanthropic organization and individuals to support our programs

we need funding to finance all our activities as we mention

funding and revenue model ;we need technical support in funding revenue model to attract funding from various institutions to finance our activities       monitoring and evaluation : we need training in monitoring and evaluation to access our performance and impact on the community                                     marketing , media and exposure ;we need training to market and expose our activities to entire world to improve patronage and attract funding 

We want to partner with ministry of education ,ministry of local government and rural development .                                                                                     The ministry of education will give us the permission to partner the school to deliver our serves to the girls and the ministry of local government and rural development will assist us to acquire land and other infrastructure

We support girls and women education in rural communities to improve their standard of living

Problems we are committed to solve includes                                                1 Poverty                                                                                                           These have manifested in girls coming to school in torn school uniforms, empty stomach, without sandals and sanitary pads.                                         2 Distance from home to school.                                                                          Most girls walk several miles from home to school.  They get to school tired and cannot concentrate in class ,most times they do not come to school at all because of the distance.                                                                      3 Teenage pregnancy                                                                                          This occurs when girls have unprotected sex  their male counterpart.      SOLUTIONS                                                                                                    1  We will supply the girls  with sanitary pads ,food, school uniforms and sandals                                                                                                               2 We will supply the  Girls coming from long distance community where there are no  school with bicycles                                                                           3 We will educate  and embark on an advocacy targeted at girls to abstain from unprotected sex                                                                                           Globally eliminating these hindrances will improve girl child education which will help them to get a brighter future .

We support girls and women education in rural communities to improve their standard of living

Problems we are committed to solve includes                                                1 Poverty                                                                                                           These have manifested in girls coming to school in torn school uniforms, empty stomach, without sandals and sanitary pads.                                         2 Distance from home to school.                                                                          Most girls walk several miles from home to school.  They get to school tired and cannot concentrate in class ,most times they do not come to school at all because of the distance.                                                                      3 Teenage pregnancy                                                                                          This occurs when girls have unprotected sex  their male counterpart.      SOLUTIONS                                                                                                    1. We  supply the girls  with sanitary pads ,food, school uniforms and sandals  2. We will supply the  Girls coming from long distance community where there are no  school with bicycles                                                                  3. We will educate  and embark on an advocacy targeted at girls to abstain from unprotected sex                                                                                     Globally eliminating these hindrances will improve girl child education which will help them to get a brighter future .