Economic Growth Ghana Project #45185

Help Nyitawuta Village Achieve Self-Sufficiency

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Project Report | Jul 28, 2021
presentation to GlobalGiving July 2021

By Barbara Asempa | Project Leader

TRAINING OF TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANT

PRESENTATION to GLOBAL GIVING JULY 2021

EDUCATION- RECREATIONAL PARK

HOCAP was fortunate to create a recreational park which has a number of sheds and seats for the entire community, the major aim was to get a place for the youth to carry out their learning activities. The youth were involved in the building of the recreational park.

We are happy to say that this park was used for the various training we have had in the past two months.

The entire Nyitawuta community does not have electricity, but HOCAP was fortunate to have four solar light installed at the recreational park.

The park has become a learning place for the youth. HOCAP has engaged two teachers who teach the final year students every evening at the park. Even some children from the neighboring communities come over to use the facility for learning.

HOCAP visited the Nyitawuta community and realized that even though children were being prepared to take their exams in November, almost all the children did not have the required text books that were needed for learning. HOCAP supplied all children in grade 9 with the textbooks they required. Children in grade 8 were also supplied with text books, mathematical sets among other things to make sure they start preparing for their national exams in 2022.

EDUCATION - VOCATIONAL TRAINING

HOCAP in its plan to alleviate poverty engaged the women in the community on vocational skills.

A trainer was sent to the community to train the women group in soap making and different forms of beading. This is to equip the women and set them up in soap making to be able to sell for profit.

HEALTH – MENSTRUAL HYGIENE EDUCATION

The teenage girls in the community received their annual menstrual hygiene training by a professional nurse. This was well attended by all teenage girls in the community.

This is to help teenagers manage the challenges they get into when they start menstruating and also to address the issues of teenage pregnancy in the community.

The training will empowers the girls to make informed decision

HEALTH – TRAINING OF TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANT

Nyitawuta does not have a clinic and for all these years they are attended to during delivery by a traditional birth attendant in the community with no training or tools to help her.

A professional midwife was sent to the community to train the woman and also equip her with various medical tools to help her carry out her work in helping assist the women during delivery.

HEALTH – EYE SURGERY

A community member identified during a medical outreach organized by HOCAP, needed to undergo an eye surgery.

However because of the COVID the surgery could not come on as scheduled.

HOCAP was able to arrange and pay for the surgery in a regional hospital this month. This surgery would not have been possible but for the medical outreach that was organized in the community.

HEALTH – WORK BEGINS ON CONSTRUCTIONS OF A CLINIC

The first phase of the construction of the community clinic started successfully. There were challenges because the rains started and the roads were flooded and the community was temporally cut off.

But fortunately we were still able to bring the first phase of the construction to end. The foundation of the clinic is fully completed.

The building contractor worked closely with the community. They supported the work with communal labor.

We are looking forward to raise funds to complete the clinic project.

AGRICULTURE

The Nyitawuta community and the neighboring communities are making use of the newly constructed dam.

We look forward to have irrigation in place during the dry season since the dam is one year and we have had water in the dam all year round.

The community also was supplied with 200 seedlings of mango and they are being taken care of by the community farmers .HOCAP provided Maize seeds and other farming inputs to the community

APPRECIATION
on behalf of the deprived communities we serve, we want to say a big thank you and God bless GlobalGiving and all donors for the wonderful support

EDUCATION- SOLAR LIGHT PROVIDED AT THE RECREATIONA

HEALTH - EYE SURGERY

EDUCATION- BOOKS PRESENTED TO STUDENTS

AGRICULTURE

HEALTH - MENSTRUAL HYGIENE EDUCATION

EDUCATION - VOCATIONAL TRAINING

AGRICULTURE

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Mar 30, 2021
Nyitawuta Updates

By Barbara Asempa | Director

Women with Mango Seedlings

HOCAP has been working in the village of Nyitawuta since 2015, and we have accomplished a lot over those years. As the first project report for this overall program on GlobalGiving, we wanted to take a moment to showcase what has been accomplished and where we're heading next.

Since 2015, HOCAP has completed the following projects in Nyitawuta:

Trained community members on bee keeping
Dug a borehole for community water use
Trained teenage girls on menstrual hygiene
Enrolled teenage mothers in vocational training
Engaged the community in different methods of farming and introduced new crops better suited for the local climate
Built a dam for community members to gather and use water for farming irrigation purposes
Completed yearly medical outreaches
Donated used clothing on yearly basis
Donated a Christmas love box full of gifts and food for community members in December 2020

Our annual outreach efforts continued despite the impacts of the global pandemic on our operations. We have begun a new initiative to help empower women in their farming efforts. We have provided them with mango seedlings that they are planting this season along with their regular maize plantings. You can see the women with their seedlings in the photo above. The mango farm is situated close to the dam to enable easy watering from the dam during the dry season.

Just today I traveled to Nyitawuta and we organized a talk for the community teenagers studying in grade 10. The focus of the talk was on the challenges these youth face as they grow up without a power supply that would enable them to study at night. As you can see from the photos below, students studying during COVID and trying to study at night face unique challenges in this community. An additional challenge was identified in that many of the students did not have textbooks to take home and study at night because their parents could not afford to purchase them. We will continue to engage on this concern going forward.

In addition, looking to future projects, we are focusing renewed efforts on building a medical clinic for Nyitawuta and its nearby communities. In January 2020, HOCAP had a medical outreach in Nyitawuta. During the program our partners from the USA- SEVEN HILLS, and HOCAP team met the community and its elders. The Nyitawuta community has five other surrounding communities all under Nyitawuta (Awuikope, Buvikope, Fulanikope, Kpegzi, and Gavikpe), covering about 500 people.

At the outreach event, the elders made a passionate appeal for us to build them a health facility. This is due to the fact that they do not have a clinic and they have to go very long distances to get medical attention. They said it is especially difficult in the rainy season when the roads are sometimes cut off. Their major challenge is that this makes it almost impossible for their women to go for antenatal care when they are pregnant. They also said the major sickness aside from the issues of pregnancy is malaria.

HOCAP observed from the various medical outreach reports we have had that most children in the community are malnourished, and we believe this could be a result of their parents not getting good health care during their pregnancy period.

Seven Hills agreed to facilitate the process for us to get the community a clinic; they have already begun funding the project. But for the COVID challenges we would have at least begun the project by now, but we are now starting to design and develop the plans for the clinic. We will be posting a project on GlobalGiving shortly specifically dedicated to raising funds to build this medical clinic, so keep an eye out for when that project goes live in the next week or two. We intend to build the clinic in phases. In Phase one we will have a part completed and usable while raising funds and building the rest of the clinic for Phase two. We are also discussing with government representatives in the area, to ensure coordination and collaboration with the government health directorate, to make sure the clinic can be handed over to the government for future logistics when it is complete.

As always, thank you for your support of this project, which helps HOCAP to continue to operate in and bring improvements to this community. We look forward to continuing to update you on our progress going forward.

Students during COVID

Students with Volunteer Teacher

Students Studying at Night

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