Book Drive for 500 students in Rural Ghana

Friend,

As usual, we are excited to share updates of events and happenings of ABAN with you. A lot less happened the past few months with our programs. Mainly because, a lot more was hapening on the operations side. We had to move offices from where our office uses to be at Awherease, back to Aburi and this time to the Aburi Craft Center (Aburi and Awherease are twin towns) . Yes, both our office and Shop are now located at the Craft center and this makes work a lot easier for us.

On the Program Side, as we could not organize the seminar this year because logistical Challenges, we organized an empowered girl talk program where Gifty and Patricia delivered a motivational talk to the craft community In Aburi. If was the first time the girls held a microphone and spoke publicly and with confidence about their stories, of how the pulled through the many challenges and how through ABAN they are financially empowered and can now sustain themselves.

We also used this time to complete the painting and stocking phase of the Dumpong Library Project. A few more structural works needs to be done and we could always use a lot more books. We had a lot of help from our local volunters and from friend of ABAN in the UK as well.

We appreciate all the support you have been sending our way. On Giving Tuesday this year, Global Fund for Children will be marching funds up to USD 150,000and awarding bonus prizes in a 24 hour period on November 27th 2018. This will be a great opportunity for you or someone you know to support us one more time. We hope to see you then. But before that, we remain thankful and your partners in service.

Links:

• Book Drive global giving page
• women Empowerment giving page

Friends, We have updates for you from where we left off with our last update a few weeks ago.  If you have been following our Facebook page, you would have seen a lot of these and more already. You can like and share our Facebook page for more updates and information on our programs and projects. 

Patricia Finally gets her shop built and we are at the very final stages of getting her tools so she can move in. We are as excited as she is, as we all recognize that Her Commitment to training and learning is finally paying off and we are happy to be right. Gifty and Joyce also sit for the National Training Exam this year as the rest of the girls continue their apprenticeship.

The  ABAN Professional and youth development Meetings , are organized ones every quarter for the beneficiaries and youth in the communities to discuss and learn about topics that affects both their professional and Personal lives. Last month, we talked about leadership.

Library for the Dumpong Basic School also is in progress and there is the plan to complete the play field for the children to use during their recess hours.

Information on the ABAN Ghana Aburi store and our online store to be shared on our social media pages and in our next update. 

Please continue to support our projects by sharing our stories and Donating to our  pages.if you can support us in any other way,  Let us know by sending us an emails to ghanainfo@aban.org or doris@aban.org 

Thank you always.  

Links:

• Watch a Video of Patricia sharing her story on Face Book
• Make your donations to ABAN through our GG Book drive Page
• Donate to ABAN through our GG Women Empowerment page