Education Ghana Project #8630

Support 5000 young graduates to be self-employed

by Totally Youth

Project Report | Jun 28, 2016
VOTE FOR YOUTH EMPLOYMENT WITH A DONATION

By EVA LOKKO | CEO

Vote For Employment For One Of Them - Donate Today

VOTE FOR YOUUTH EMPLOYMENT WITH A DONATION

On November 7, 2016, Ghanaians will vote for a new government. By then another set of 350,000 graduates will be released onto the job market. Meanwhile, with the ongoing political campaigns hundreds of thousands of veteran unemployed youth are being drown deeper and deeper into social vices. They are ready to sell their votes to the highest bidder through fraudulent schemes.

The campaign season will see a tremendous rise in youth depression, poverty, teenage pregnancies, drug and alcohol abuse and violence. This is due to failed schemes and reckless use of ill gotten monies. Furthermore, some of these unemployed youth are enticed into rioting by unscrupulous politicians and end up locked up, wounded or dead.

Unemployment is the mother of youth poverty and so long as the number of unemployed youth continuous to grow, more youth will turn to violence, rioting, robbery and fraud to provide themselves with the bare necessities of life and then more. This is not acceptable and we, the friends and champions of the youth should find room in our hearts to extend a helping hand to stem this trend.

You and I can substantially save some of these helpless youth, especially during this campaign season. We can do so by donating any amount of money to Support 5,000 Graduates into jobs or businesses. Your donations can be one-off, monthly recurring or yearly recurring.

Due to financial constraints, we currently have only, 10 new set of job-seeking youth looking for jobs in marketing, finance, human resource manage, etc. We also have two transitional incubators – a gingko health drink start-up by Allen and a beads accessories start-up by Rafiatu, which need an estimated total of US$10,000 to really take off. Allen and Rafiatu are very determined and committed and their businesses can recruit thousands of unemployed youth in the very near, due to local demands. If we are unable to raise this amount, Allen and Rafiatu and their potential employees, they will all surely, end up on the jobless youth heap.

I am therefore appealing to all readers of this report to please Vote for Youth Employment with a Donation to this programme today. We know that there are so many things that you can do with your hard earned money, but we sincerely hope that you will find it in your heart to lift vulnerable unemployed youth out of poverty into productive and responsible lives.

We thank our past donors for all their support in the past. We are grateful to our recurrent donors who keep us going. We look forward to new donors to rekindle our fundraising. We are counting on you all.

Thank you for caring about the plight of the youth. God bless.

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Mar 29, 2016
SADLY 2016 IS SEEING MORE UNEMPLOYED YOUTH

By EVA LOKKO | CEO

Ghana just came out of a power supply crisis early this year - 2016, but not without it affecting many local businesses – small and big. Recruitment has been frozen in the public serctor and many private businesses have cut down their workforce while others were forced to shut down. Consequently, with the annual graduation rate going above 90,000 a year, the number of unemployed youth is at its highest this year.

And your guess is right. Totally Youth now have more requests for support than it can handle due to our limited funds. We have therefore had to deny too many candidates support, this year. This has been very hard for us. We know their plight and it always seems heartless, when we have to say no to needy candidates.

But with all these difficulties and hopelessly, we are very grateful to all our donors for the support they have been able to provide. This has made it possible to help several unemployed youth through mentoring, counseling and capacity building to increase their prospects of getting jobs. Isaac, Larbi, Enoch, Hannah and Frank are now all fully employed. Isaac, Larbi and Frank have now moved to our Career Facilitation Programme and will be with us until May 2016, when we hope they will have saved enough to move out on their own. We will then be able to take on more of the needy candidates who also need accommodation.

With your support, we have been able to take on board two new incubators – Allen and Derick. Allen has patented a health drink from the gingko leave and wants to start a beverage business. We are currently helping him to obtain his final certification from the Ghana Food and Drugs Board, so he can bring in his first consignments to start his business. He will as usual start on our premises and we continue to give him requisite mentoring and coaching as well as capacity building to ensure his success. Allen will be recruiting four interns once he starts, thereby taking five youth off the unemployment list. We are supporting Derick to start his own restaurant, which will employ 13 unemployed youth as interns also under our incubation programme with all the requisite mentoring, coaching and training.

We are therefore looking up to our donors to support Allen with US$4,000 and Derick with US$11,000 to ensure that they achieve their dreams as well as the dreams of 17 other unemployed youth. We will be grateful indeed if we could get recurrent donors so that we can avoid price increases that eat into our funds. Recurrent donations will also help us plan more effectively and ensure that we can help more participants at any given time.

We are counting on your usual kind considerations to help us support them. Just imagine that they are your daughters, sons, siblings, peers, etc, and I trust that you will find it in your hearts to help out even more than you have done so far. I believe sincerely that poverty is only a matter of missed opportunities. Together, we can ensure that our unemployed youth get all the opportunities they need to become responsible and productive citizens.

THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS. HAVE A GREAT EASTER.

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Dec 29, 2015
A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU. PLEASE DONATE A SMILE FOR 2016

By Eva Lokko | CEO

Faces of Totally Youth Alumni

2015, like any other year, has had its ups and downs. In a few days we will enter the year 2016, a new year that we hope will bring us all many peaceful and happy days. The entire Totally Youth Team wishes you and all your loved ones a belated Merry Christmas and the Happiest-Ever New Year. May all your good wishes come true.

In 2015, we operationalized two new projects to help us focus on the needs of nee ourdy alumni – Career Facilitation and Business Facilitation. This year, these two projects helped seven participants directly with several other people benefiting indirectly through the cost-savings made by these participants. These projects involves among other things, the free accommodation, free utilities and free facilities that Totally Youth extends to alumni. This additional support ensures that they save enough towards their independence (enough to pay their own rent and utilities, when they leave TY). This was made possible by your donations throughout the year. The current batch of Facilitation participants will be leaving TY in the first quarter of 2016, ready to face the world with confidence and determination, thanks to all the support you provided. We will then bring on board the next batch of needy alumni. We strongly believe that through these two projects, we will be able to build a pool of career and business alumni, who are professionally and financially stable enough to become staunch supporters of Totally Youth in due course.

Support 5000 Young Graduates is the umbrella programme for all our projects and mocro-projects and has helped support our individual and group projects. It has brought us our highest individual donations of up to US$1,000 and has the highest number of one-off and recurrent donors! We are very grateful indeed, because these statistics prove to us that we are doing something useful and worthwhile for needy unemployed youth. We trust that you will continue to partner with us throughout 2016. Meanwhile, to help us end 2015 on a successful note, we will be grateful if you can use this festive holiday season to Donate A Smile to one needy unemployed youth as the most precious New Year Gift. This will surely guarantee a job or business start-up for one unemployed youth and take her/him out of poverty. Whether you are an old or new donor, please consider becoming a recurrent donor during this festive holiday season, in the spirit of good cheer and goodwill. You can do this by donating any amount of your choice or any of the amounts below on a monthly basis at www.globalgiving.org/projects/totallyyouth:

US$ 100 | US$ 50 | US$ 40 | US$ 20 | US$ 10 | YOUR CHOICE

And we will definitely continue to be grateful for all one-off donations in any amount. We will as usual keep you posted on our activities and joint achievements. Thank you for all that you have done in 2015. We look forward to a Great New Year together in 2016

WISHING YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR OF PEACE AND PROSPERITY
God Bless You and Your Family

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