Education Ghana Project #15399

Sponsor Education & Healthcare for Kids in Ghana

by The Anidaso Nsae Foundation

Sponsor Education & Healthcare for Kids in Ghana

Project Report | May 12, 2016
Free Health screening

By Laud Akuffo | Executive Director

Ongoing Malaria Health screening

As part of our health care program here in Ghana we received two German volunteers, Louisa and Lena. Both are medical students in Germany. They both landed in Ghana on the same day and during their 5 week volunteering stay in the health sector they teamed up with some other volunteers from other NGOs to do a free health screening against malaria in the community of Senya Breku, in the Central Region of Ghana. Senya Breku is a rural community, with most of the people living in this area rely on fishing as their main source of income. During this screening, they found that 50% of the total patients examined had malaria - this is shocking and a lot more needs to be done to prevent the spread of it. Due to this, TANF has realised how imprtant our health talks are that we do at schools around Accra on various health issues, including malaria. With more funding we will be able to organise such health screenings also in other parts of the country and we will also be able to organise further health talks accross the country. After the screening, those patients that were found to have malaria were given free medication.

Ongoing Malaria Health screening

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Feb 5, 2016
Educational materials to five (5) new children

By Laud Akuffo | Executive Director

Group picture of all the 5 new children

We are excited to announce The Anidaso Nsae Foundation was recently able to provide educational materials for five new sponsored students who are currently attending Seven Stars International School. They are Wisdom, 3 years old, Ayishietu 6, Sandra 10, Samuel 14, and Daniel 15.

Each student received text books, and exercise books. We were also able to pay their school fees. As each child has their own challenges, we are blessed to be able to support them in this way, fulfilling our mission of furthering education and providing health care for children in need. At this time, we are looking for a godparent or sponsors to help us continue providing precious resources and care for these wonderful children. If you are interested in contributing to the lives of these young students, please contact us at info@tanfghana.org In addition, our organisation hosts overseas volunteers.

Last month we were delighted to have Catherine from the US with us. She was teaching at Seven Stars International School, where some of our sponsored students, such as the five mentioned above, go to school. During her time at the school she was able to have a huge impact especially in ICT classes, which she made more hands-on and practical – allowing the students to use her laptop and apply what they have learned from the textbook. However, the school is still lacking in key resources.

Hence, Catherine, donated a desk to the school, to give students in overflowing classes more personal space for learning, rather than all cramming around one table. We hope to continue this great initiative, by ourselves donating more desks for the school that our sponsored students attend. Lastly, we are also working hard on our new project – creating our own school for all of the sponsored students. Please contact us if you wish to find out more. Thank you to all of you for your continued support! You make our project so successful!

TANF Donate'S school desk to Seven Stars Academy

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Nov 6, 2015
Public health talk on malaria-2015

By Laud Akuffo | Executive Director

Ongoing health talk at seven Stars school

Malaria kills ~584,000 people each year – the vast majority are children can kill within 24 hours of symptom onset accounts for 40% of all public health spending in Africa
Over 11 outpatients were reported in throughout 2013
During October 2015, TANF team visited both the Seven Stars School and Fidif Academy in Accra to provide health talks on Malaria to raise awareness of the disease. These talks were both led by Charity, who is a qualified nurse with the support of Faustina, our social worker. Malaria is a common disease which can be easily prevented, however due to the lack of knowledge of the symptoms; cases are still arising on a day to day basis throughout the country.

Charity explained to the children that Malaria is a feverish condition caused by a plasmodium parasite which is introduced into the blood stream by a female anopheles (most common) mosquito. She then went onto advise the classes how the female mosquito picks up the plasmodium from an infected person and then releases it onto another person through a bite.
It is important for the children to comprehend the signs and symptoms of Malaria. Charity informed the children about this by using one of the TANF health talk posters to support her sessions. The most recognized symptoms, which the class already had a brief understanding of, were vomiting and convulsion in children.

The next sections of the talks were about the preventions for Malaria to educate the children on what to precautions to take during daily life. Charity spoke about the ways to control the disease, which included the following measures; draining or destroying of empty containers, weeding around houses, sleeping under treated mosquito nets, netting doors/ windows, use of creams and mosquito repellants.
The children across both schools actively participated in discussions with Charity and engaged with her on contributing by raising their hands to say which prevention's they are currently doing.

At the end of each talk, Charity gave the class the opportunity to ask any questions on Malaria and what they have learned during the session. Questions included, how did Malaria come about? How is Malaria transmitted? If you have Malaria can you get additional diseases? If you are not rushed to hospital can you die? Do you become dehydrated every time you get Malaria? Many of these questions were explained during the session; however the children seemed to want assurance and more clarity on certain points. Charity elaborated on these areas and the children left their talks with confidence.
TANF are extremely conscience of the importance of providing free health talks on such diseases as Malaria and realize even just one session on a topic can change young peoples’ lives. #‎togetherletsfightmalaria

Ongoing health talk at Fidif School

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