CTPI provides daily hot lunches, Monday – Friday, to school children in poor rural Ghanaian communities. In Ghana, 28% of children under the age of five are stunted due to chronic malnutrition. More than 30% of rural Ghanaian students arrive at school hungry, a situation that makes learning very difficult and hardly productive. In Ghana, 28% of children under the age of five are stunted due to chronic malnutritionIn Ghana, 28% of children under the age of five are stunted due to chronic malnutritionIn Ghana, 28% of children under the age of five are stunted due to chronic malnutritionFeeding quality protein meals to malnourished children improves their diets and enhances their critical brain development. Through our school feeding program, we fight student malnutrition. Our objective is to improve daily attendance by decreasing absenteeism, improving students’ ability to focus on lessons being taught, and giving them a head start at learning that will last for a lifetime.
Currently, there are no clear after-school programs in most poor rural Ghanaian communities. As such, school-aged children are unable to access the assistance that they may require for full development. Due to this, they suffer various academic, social, physical, and creative setbacks.
CTPI provides After School Programs to poor rural Ghanaian community students. Currently, there are no clear after-school programs in the Gbawe community. As such, school-aged children are unable to access the assistance that they may require for full development. Due to this, they suffer various setbacks, in terms of their academic, social, physical, and creative achievement.This is a network for children, with the aim to build bridges between young people, their community and their future. Teachers and other educated adults in the community will be recruited and equipped to provide after school academic and extracurricular activities to support students.
This program is designed in four areas in mind: academics, socialization, creativity, and health promotion to assist children in the poor rural Ghanaian communities. It is geared towards supplementing and complimenting the learning K-12 rural Ghanaian students.
The project will be beneficial to children and student K-12. Through sharing knowledge and skills to the younger children they will be learning valuable life skills that will improve their own academic, social, and professional lives. The project will be beneficial to children and Student tutors. By sharing knowledge and skills to the younger children they will learning valuable life skills that will assist their own lives academically, socially, professionally and the children.
All Ghanaian rural communities face a long list of challenges. Among these, unemployment is high. At least 50 % of classrooms in rural communities in Ghana are poorly constructed and overcrowded with about 40 or more students per class. As well, about 95% of poor rural Ghanaian community schools have little or no access to computers and therefore lack the digital literacy or knowledge they need to compete with their urban counterparts for jobs and further education. Even though digital literacy is required at the basic education level in Ghana, many schools do not have computers, internet connections or electricity to learn and acquire the necessary skills. As a result, many of them fail their computer exams and therefore are not able progress to secondary school. The cost of failure for children of poor families in Ghana is high, including parents taking them out of school. Without skills, they are unable to compete in the job-market, and the cycle of poverty continues.Computer and internet skills are compulsory subjects for Junior High School children (ages 11-16). However, many schools do not have computers, internet connections or electricity, so the children cannot practice. They fail their computer exams and cannot progress to secondary school. The cost of failure for children of poor families in Ghana is high - their parents take them out of school. Without skills, they are unable to compete in the job-market, and the cycle of poverty continues.
CTPI will provide ICT & Digital Literacy Training programs for qualified poor rural Ghanaian community students. We will build and run community library commons that are equipped with solar panels, laptop and tablet computers, and teaching aids like whiteboards where students from clusters of local schools can come for their ICT & Digital Literacy Training programs. On a weekly basis we expect to reach about 1,500 students in a typical poor rural community in Ghana.
Working with teachers, headmasters, and librarians we will provide poor rural Ghanaian students with opportunities to develop hands-on digital literacy skills. With regular skill building practice, the children will not only pass their exams, but will also become equipped to fit into the world of business where knowledge of technology has become inevitable. Four mobile libraries equipped with solar panels, laptop and tablet computers, and teaching aids like whiteboards, will each visit three schools every week, reaching 1,800 children. Working with teachers and headmasters, librarians will provide the children with hands-on computer classes. With regular skills practice, the children will pass their exams.This will improve their digital literacy skills and allow them to access health information, continue their education in different pathways, be able to follow their career dreams, find better paid jobs in the future and eventually climb out of poverty. The long term impact will be improved health and well-being for themselves, their families and their communities.
