Help Underprivileged Children in Ghana

Dear Friends of PAAJAF,

We here at PAAJAF are much grateful to you for your generosity and selfless contribution and investment in the lives of underprivileged children at PAAJAF in Gbawe Community, Ghana. Your donations are making real changes in their lives - Erica, Abigail and Josephine.Please visit our website to read about these children and other children at PAAJAF: http://paajaf.org/recipients/.

The situation at Gbawe in Ghana.
Gbawe is the village of Accra, the capital city of Ghana with about 45% of Gbawe's residents are unemployed. There is a large number of young people in the area and youth unemployment is high. A lack of basic skills makes it difficult for individuals to secure employment and families continue to experience extreme poverty due to lack of education etc. Extreme poverty and low levels of literacy have had a negative impact on health. The rampant ill health is decreasing the ability of people to acquire and maintain employment and is trapping individuals and families in a cycle of continuous deprivation. Parents depend on their children in old age, so it is crucial that their children are educated to secure jobs in future. African women seem strong, however their social position is determined by their husbands and single women with families find themselves marginalised. If a child in the family succeeds then s/he will be able to help his/her family. But there is lack of support to these children. Without your support to these children at PAAJAF, please, let us imagine their future.

Thank you for investing in their lives and the concerns. We appreciate your support a lot. In January 2012, PAAJAF would be paying tuitions for the children at PAAJAF but no funding now. If you don't come in to support these children, they would be removed from school and this would be sad, I believe you would not like to hear this. Christmas is here and 2012 also is just at the corner. We would like to plead to you to share our project to your friends, co-worker, families etc. invest in the lives of children at PAAJAF. This Christmas, everyone will celebrate and thank the Lord for what he/she received in his/her life. Few will be thinking about the less privileged. I hope you and they are one of them. Merry Christmas!

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• PAAJAF Children

“I am 10 years old. I attend Melabet Academy at Gbawe in

Accra, Ghana. I am in stage six and my class teacher’s name is

Madam Millicent. I am a sponsored child of the PAAJAF

Foundation’s educational sponsorship. I like to read and listen to

music, and help out at home by sweeping and fetching water. I

am very grateful to PAAJAF for helping me to study.”

- Abigail, aged 10

Abigail is one of the beneficiaries that your donation to PAAJAF is helping to make a difference and add value into her life.   PAAJAF is still sponsoring/paying school fees for the four children at PAAJAF.  We intend to add another seven children for the year 2011. School has just re-opening and we have been able to pay the tuition for two children and we are calling for your help to reach to the other two and extend supporting hand to other seven children at PAAJAF.

Thank you

Philip Appiah

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It is sometimes easy to put off things until tomorrow, but when tomorrow may bring illness or worse the meaning has a sense of urgency.  The people who are helped by donations to the PAAJAF face a tomorrow everyday where there just isn’t enough to go around.  Your support of this charity will ensure a child the right to live with hope for the next day.

Unfortunately, the school fees arrears of our current sponsored child still left unpaid and we here at PAAJAF is calling for help on their behalf.

Our client Group educational Circumstances

Children’s Education: Public schools in the area are normally very over-crowded. Due to the demography of the city (56% under 24 years) and the growing population (migration and natural increase), 24,500 new school places must be created in the basic school system (primary and junior high) each year for 10 years. Classes are generally twice the size of those considered acceptable in the Developed World. The teachers are therefore unable to give individual attention to any pupils in the normal school hours; this affects attainment levels. Whilst most Ghanaians have access to primary and some secondary education, there is a high drop out rate in primary school, especially for girls. The Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS 2006) stated that only 22.3% of females and 25.9% of males completed primary school in 2007.

Thank you to understand the impact.