Help Educate Children with Disabilities in Ghana

Summary

FHI is assisting the education of 550 needy disabled children in five institutions in the Southern sector of Ghana by providing for their educational materials to allow free education for the disabled

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

There exist negative attitudes and social taboos against People with Disabilities in many parts of the World and that includes Ghana. This leads to the neglect of these vulnerable people hampering the development of their God-given potentials. To many parents, it is a waste of resources and unnecessary bother to send the disabled (deaf/blind/cripple) to school.These children are usually marginalized.There is the need to motivate parents to send them to school by providing educational materials.

How will this project solve this problem?

Identify needy children in all the five schools and facilitate their schooling with educational materials such as school uniforms, footwear, bags, textbooks,stationery,etc., equip the Voc/Tech with training materials to start small scale industry.

Potential Long Term Impact

The 550 beneficiaries will come out as skilled tradesmen and women who would be independent on themselves. Society will respect and no more marginalize them. They can contribute meaningfully to the development of their community and no more liability

Project Message

"This gift is precious to me...and I wish to thank FHI for expressing such great love... to help the disabled find expression and fit into society to contribute their quota to National Development"
- Nana Kodwo Addae II, , Chief of Abura community suburb of Cape Coast

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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