Head Office: Community One First Floor Evergreen Shop Building
P. O. Box Bt 365, Comm. 2 Tema
REPORT
DATE: 28TH JULY TO 6TH AUGUST 2007
VENUE: EKWAMKROM – AGONA SWEDRU IN CENTRAL REGION GHANA WEST AFRICA
FEASIBILITY STUDY AT EKWAMKROM – AGONA SWEDRU
BACKGROUND
Trinity Care and Needy Foundation (TRINCAF) is a charitable organisation which assists the needy and cares livelihood for the street children and the sick in the nation Ghana. It is an entity registered in Ghana in accordance with Act 179 of the Company code 1963. It was set-up in the year 2007 by a group of committed individual who saw the need of helping the needy for the betterment of the economy of this country.
VISION OF TRINCAF
A country where the family have the capacity and foresight helps to the development of that nation and our area is to bring that into reality.
MISSION OF TRINCAF
To empower the family, safeguard and improve their health, living right and the development of their communities.
AREAS OF OPERATION
Community Development
Environmental Counselling
Health Projects/Programmes
ORGANISATIONAL GOALS
To plan and implement programmes and projects involving the Communities, Districts, Regions and the entire Countries.
Organize seminars and workshop, Conferences on issues, which adversely affect the total development of the nations (Education, Environment Health and community in Development)
To increase programme impact towards organizational sustainability
Provide employable skills through Technical and Vocational Training.
To develop human resource towards increasing organisational performance, growth and development.
Encourage Schools, Markets and Hospitals in Rural Folks
To assist street children, poor and needy in the country.
INTRODUCTION
Ekwamkrom in Agona – Swedru in Central Region Ghana West Africa is a Village with a population of thousand Five hundred (1500) with 35% Male and 65% Female. In the Village the living standard is very poor because the labour force and measurable productivity i is very low. The population 20% are Employed 10% is into a Vocational and Technical training in the nearby Village and 15% percent are Student and the remaining 55% are unemployed.
With this research made we happen to meet the Chief of the Village and his Council of Elders and the Assembly man and the president of the Vocational Training Association in thjnmhbe District.
COMMENT FROM THE CHIEF NANA AYEIDAN THE EIGHT AND COUNCIL OF ELDERS
NANA AYEIDAN and his elders said the future
of the village is in trouble because if the
labour force of a village is above 50% then it
tells you the living condition of such Village.
Based on this teenage pregnancy rate are very
high and also single parenthood is also grate
because most men over there are not responsible so the are afraid of responsibilities. Nana Ayeidan said because of the living condition so most of the people think and end up taking alcohol and drugs and they end up in the grave so orphan rate is also high.
The community development and the health
and environment condition is also poor
because of the financial stand of the
Village the Education is also low
because even look at some of the
building that most of the people live in.
when there is a heavy rain storm
most of them will die because the
population was over Two Thousand Eight
(2800) in the year 2000 and 2001 we hard a
heavy rain storm and most of them lost their family
and now it has reduce to the above mentioned number.
I want you to have a look at some of the buildings.
Looking at the buildings above you will know the condition of the people is into. So the Chief took upon himself and said if We can assist the Village every thing that we need from the Council if it is in their standard of assist they will be willing to do for the betterment of the People living in the community.
COMMENT FROM THE MANAGEMENT OF TRINITY CARE AND NEEDY FOUNDATION TO THE CHIEF AND IT S COUNCILERS OF ELDERS
The management of Trinity Care and needy foundation because of they are aims and objectives and what they have in heart so they sow it appropriate to take it upon themselves to be of a help to such Village. What the management knows that, As a human your believes is a result of your thinking. If you think wrong, in your believe will be wrong. If our believing is wrong, our confession will be wrong. In other words, what we say will be wrong , and it will all hinge on our thinking.
The management told the chief and the elders that because of what they have thought about the people in the village we will also help for their thinking to be a reality.
We told them that we will assist the village in the following areas:
Organize Seminars to educate them on Environmental health, Clinical health and food and nutrition.
We will help in strengthening the Education aspect of the youth in that Village
We told them we will open clinic to take care of their minor health condition because even some one gave birth on that they I got there in the house I went and lodge.
We will Establish Vocational and Technical Training centre
We will come out with both crop and animal farming to help reduce the unemployment rate so we need Land for both Vocational/Technical and the farming and the chief gave out.
We hard discussion with the president of the Vocational and Technical Training Association in the District by name Mrs Doris Nyako. We told her to get us Teacher and instructors for the training. Mrs Nyako told us that the problems in the Vocational and the Technical training in the District. She said because of the financial difficulties so most of the people are willing to learn
but they don’t have the funds to do
that, others too will come and will not
be able to complete and some will
also complete but not have the capital
to establish so at the end of it all they will
end up loosing all that they have learnt.
We told her that we will put our ideas
together to see how it will work.
We also went to one of the Churches and meet the
head pastor and he gave out an office on the building pictured to you above.
The foundation management sure one of the building of a traditional midwife and the Environment and the Structure is such that we have to give out some money for the development of the building. We gave out Two Million Cedis (¢2,000,000) for the protect and this is the
place where someone gave birth you realize that the village is such
that we need to help. The Midwife is not having any equipment at the
place so the rate at which people loos there life is so alarming and we have come out with a clinic as soon as possible because life’s and perishing.
The above is the picture of the building of the Midwife traditional clinic.
CHALLENGES ENCOUNTERED
We got there and encountered a lot of difficulties and these are the challenges we encountered.
We were stranded because of we not knowing any body over there so we hard it difficult to be accepted.
In the village there is know Hotel, Lodge so where to lay our heard became a problem to us.
There was a heavy rain fall and we have to stand at a place where we will be in good condition.
To See the Chief and the Council of Elders was also a problem to us.
Financial we were down because we did a lot of expenses looking at the living condition we have to give out some money to some of the people living in the locality for food.
FINDINGS
The foundation executives, Patrons and other individuals assisted for the finding of these feasibility studies in Ekwamkrom. We wish to have more than what we had in our nest feasibility studies.
THE WAY FORWARD
Trinity Care and Needy Foundation want to establish a Vocational and Technical Training institute at the Village and also we want to run an Agricultural Company. The chief and other families are will to give out lands for those projects.
Based on that we need some few things to help us run the projects
We need materials for the training eg. (Sawing Machines, equipment for salon, Computers, Tools for the Technical training etc.)
We need books for the training
We need farming equipment and seed for the farming projects.
Other supports are welcome.
LESSONS LEARNT
Funding and sponsorships from corporate partners and donors should be sought out long before the commencement of the planning
The Chief of every Village have to be informing before we move out from the head office for a feasibility study to ensure a better preparation.
We have to know some one living in that village we are visiting before we will do that visitation for the feasibility study.
Our hotel accommodation has to be in proper arrangement before time.
Confirmation of us seeing the chief have to come before we move from the head office.
RESEARCH CORDINATORS
REV DAVID DWOMOH
C.E.O
AND
RICHARD YEBOAH
Aaron Kwabena Sarpong
CONCLUSION
Trinity Care Needy Foundation is also happy to work with collaboratry parties, also can contribute to it’s projects in the form of logistics, expert personeland funding to ensure the implementation of it’s projects ,
Foundation salutes all those who contributed to the success of the feasibility study as we journey ahead with the Vocational and Technical Training Projects.
SOME OF THE PROGRAM THAT I DO TO HELP VILLAGE PICS
I AM EDUCATE THEM
DRAMA GROUP
KIDS THAT WE GIVE THEM FOOD
ONE OF EXUCUTIVE
EXUCUTIVE
DRAMA
DRAMA
DRAMA
THOSE NEED HELP
MEMBER
THOSE NEED HELP
HEAR TOO
MEMBERS
MEMBERS
MEMBERS
MEMBERS
BANERSOME OF THE PROGRAM THAT I DID TO HELP VILLAGES
TRINITY CARE AND NEEDY FOUNDATION
PROJECT REPORT
DATE: 17TH OCTOBER 2007
TIME: 6:00AM – 4:00PM
VENUE: EKWAMKROM AND JUKWA, AGONA SWEDRU, CENTRAL REGION
INTRODUCTION:
The project Village Planning Poverty Alleviation Started as planned in two villages. Ekwankrom and Jukwa are in the Gomoa District in the Central Region of the Republic of Ghana. It can be located between Winneba Junction and Agona Swedru. The community has a population of about 1000 and farming as the predominant source of income.
Phase 1.
The Foundation organized the youth and school children in these two villages to clean the surroundings and weed the bushy paths that lead in and out of the villages. In summary the total turn out of participants was motivating since the goal is to inculcate in them the need to recognize their responsibility towards having a safer and a clean environment to prevent pollution and the subsequent outbreak of diseases such as malaria and cholera etc.
Findings: During this exercise it came to our notice that there is only one place of public convenience (Toilet Facility) Because of this most of the people prefer easing themselves in the bushy surroundings since they cannot join the queue of line which is always there at this place of convenience.,
Secondly we were reliably informed by one of the sub chiefs that there is no market where the people can display their wares. Because of this most of them who are predominantly farmers prefer to either sell on the street corners or take it to the major markets in Mankessim and Swedru.
In conclusion we noticed that these two sister villages (Ekwankrom and Jukwa) have one of the best cleanest environment and streets than most other villages we passed on our way there.
Phase II.
The group of counselors, resource persons and team of Trinity Care and Needy Foundation moved from house to house to sensitize and counsel occupants on issues such as Teenage Pregnancy, Reproductive Health, Modernize Farm Practices, Environmental Cleanliness, Government Policy on GPRS I and II. We then informed them of our vision for the village and invited them to the afternoon program.
In all we covered the greater part of the villages; we visited 67 houses and interviewed 129 people. Other places we chose at liberty to visit are the schools and the local health post, where we were informed about the health issues in these villages. Diseases such as Malaria, Dysentery and Bilharzias were common among the villagers. Some of the issues we were confronted with were shocking and challenging but not without solutions. It came as no surprise to the team as we encountered more problems of the effects of poverty to another as we went along.
Findings;
Because of the poor living standards of the people, most of the able bodied members of the community have either left to the cities and major towns in search of “greener pastures” or taken to trading and other sources of income generation. There is a high rate of teenage pregnancy and child mortality rate, unemployment child abuse. For instance we were reliably informed that most of the children go to school on empty stomach because their parents don’t have the money for this basic human right of the child. The two basic schools serving the communities are in bad shape. We can say that one of the schools (Ekwankrom Methodist Primary with a student population of 372) is almost a death trap since the roof is caving in. Through the ingenuity of the Head Teacher a single pillar has been constructed to give a support to the whole structure.
The education of the youth is adversely affected because of the seriousness of the effects of poverty, for example the district had the lowest percentage of result in the last Basic Education Certificate Examination in the country. The district (Gomoa) had 14% of zero in the result that was published.
It was not all gloomy; we had some rays of hope as we realized that others who are engaged in other businesses such as hairdressing, tailoring and carpentry were doing well. Our final place of visit before we started the main events was the Chief Palace. The youth chief and other sub chiefs who welcomed us and introduced us to certain issues confronting the community welcomed us. We were also taken through s few of their cultural heritage and way of life as they have inherited it from their ancestors. Later an announcement was made through the public address system in the Chiefs House for the whole community to attend the program in the afternoon.
Phase III
The inaugural ceremony of the project came on as scheduled, in attendance were Traditional Heads, Heads of Schools, Opinion Leaders, Religious Bodies, Students and the General Public. Also in attendance was Morrich Film Production an affiliated media consultancy of Trinity Care and Needy Foundation, who came and performed a play to add to the unveiling of the vision of the foundation in alleviating poverty through vocational and technical training.
Most of the resource persons dealt with their respective topics and took the gathering through a systematic approach of problem solving mechanisms and informative responses to the issue of poverty. Other outstanding business speakers such as Mr. Harry Tedeku and Mr. Samuel Ansah spoke about the need to ensure the success of the project through the collective effort of the communities involved.
The Chief Executive Officer of Trinity Care and Needy Foundation, Rev. David Dwomoh also touched on the vision and mission of the Foundation and the selection of Ekwankrom and Jukwa to benefit from the project. He said “poverty can be eradicated if we can put our minds on the solutions than the causes and effects of poverty”. He called on all present to support the project from now to its implementation. He understood that such a project will encounter different phases of challenges but he reiterated that with oneness of mind and purpose we can all join hearts and hands to ensure the success of the project.
Ample opportunity was given to the audience to ask questions and contribute to the function. Based on the questions and contributions we realized that the whole communities are solidly behind the foundation towards this drive, but they were quick to add that they have been deceived by several bodies and agencies that have come there to present similar project.
Questioner forms were given to those who want to be part of the project to complete and hand it over to the Operations Officer (Rev. Jeph Bright Akwandoh) of the Foundation. One of the Speakers (Mr. Harry Tedeku) was moved to give an amount of 50 GH cedi (500,000) to one of the participants who incidentally needed to be supported with funds urgently.
Attached to this report are some of the photos during the program.
PROJECT BUDGETRY EXPENSES
DETAIL QUANTITY UNIT COST TOTAL
Flyers 200pcs 50GH
Refreshment 350GH
Stage Banner 1pcs lump sum 30GH
Town Banners 10pcs 22 220GH
Posters 1,000pcs lump sum 120GH
Invitation Cards 50pcs lump sum 25GH
Coverage (Video/Photographs) lump sum 200GH
Public Address System 1 Day lump sum 72GH
Canopies 6Rooms (20x20) 100,000 60GH
Chairs 500pcs 1000 50GH
TV lump sum lump sum 120GH
Resource Personnel’s Allowance lump sum 200GH
Refreshment for Medical Personnel lump sum 50GH
Staff Allowance 5 500,000 250GH
Project Administration 2 month’s 1,000,000 200GH
Miscellaneous lump sum 100GH
TOTAL 1897GH
FOUNDATION’S CONTRIBUTION 700GH
GRAND TOTAL OF AMOUNT SPENT 2597GH
EQUIVALENT IN DOLLAR = $ 2,886
PROJECT REPORT
DATE: 17TH OCTOBER 2007
TIME: 6:00AM – 4:00PM
VENUE: EKWAMKROM AND JUKWA, AGONA SWEDRU, CENTRAL REGION
INTRODUCTION:
The project Village Planning Poverty Alleviation Started as planned in two villages. Ekwankrom and Jukwa are in the Gomoa District in the Central Region of the Republic of Ghana. It can be located between Winneba Junction and Agona Swedru. The community has a population of about 1000 and farming as the predominant source of income.
Phase 1.
The Foundation organized the youth and school children in these two villages to clean the surroundings and weed the bushy paths that lead in and out of the villages. In summary the total turn out of participants was motivating since the goal is to inculcate in them the need to recognize their responsibility towards having a safer and a clean environment to prevent pollution and the subsequent outbreak of diseases such as malaria and cholera etc.
Findings: During this exercise it came to our notice that there is only one place of public convenience (Toilet Facility) Because of this most of the people prefer easing themselves in the bushy surroundings since they cannot join the queue of line which is always there at this place of convenience.,
Secondly we were reliably informed by one of the sub chiefs that there is no market where the people can display their wares. Because of this most of them who are predominantly farmers prefer to either sell on the street corners or take it to the major markets in Mankessim and Swedru.
In conclusion we noticed that these two sister villages (Ekwankrom and Jukwa) have one of the best cleanest environment and streets than most other villages we passed on our way there.
Phase II.
The group of counselors, resource persons and team of Trinity Care and Needy Foundation moved from house to house to sensitize and counsel occupants on issues such as Teenage Pregnancy, Reproductive Health, Modernize Farm Practices, Environmental Cleanliness, Government Policy on GPRS I and II. We then informed them of our vision for the village and invited them to the afternoon program.
In all we covered the greater part of the villages; we visited 67 houses and interviewed 129 people. Other places we chose at liberty to visit are the schools and the local health post, where we were informed about the health issues in these villages. Diseases such as Malaria, Dysentery and Bilharzias were common among the villagers. Some of the issues we were confronted with were shocking and challenging but not without solutions. It came as no surprise to the team as we encountered more problems of the effects of poverty to another as we went along.
Findings;
Because of the poor living standards of the people, most of the able bodied members of the community have either left to the cities and major towns in search of “greener pastures” or taken to trading and other sources of income generation. There is a high rate of teenage pregnancy and child mortality rate, unemployment child abuse. For instance we were reliably informed that most of the children go to school on empty stomach because their parents don’t have the money for this basic human right of the child. The two basic schools serving the communities are in bad shape. We can say that one of the schools (Ekwankrom Methodist Primary with a student population of 372) is almost a death trap since the roof is caving in. Through the ingenuity of the Head Teacher a single pillar has been constructed to give a support to the whole structure.
The education of the youth is adversely affected because of the seriousness of the effects of poverty, for example the district had the lowest percentage of result in the last Basic Education Certificate Examination in the country. The district (Gomoa) had 14% of zero in the result that was published.
It was not all gloomy; we had some rays of hope as we realized that others who are engaged in other businesses such as hairdressing, tailoring and carpentry were doing well. Our final place of visit before we started the main events was the Chief Palace. The youth chief and other sub chiefs who welcomed us and introduced us to certain issues confronting the community welcomed us. We were also taken through s few of their cultural heritage and way of life as they have inherited it from their ancestors. Later an announcement was made through the public address system in the Chiefs House for the whole community to attend the program in the afternoon.
Phase III
The inaugural ceremony of the project came on as scheduled, in attendance were Traditional Heads, Heads of Schools, Opinion Leaders, Religious Bodies, Students and the General Public. Also in attendance was Morrich Film Production an affiliated media consultancy of Trinity Care and Needy Foundation, who came and performed a play to add to the unveiling of the vision of the foundation in alleviating poverty through vocational and technical training.
Most of the resource persons dealt with their respective topics and took the gathering through a systematic approach of problem solving mechanisms and informative responses to the issue of poverty. Other outstanding business speakers such as Mr. Harry Tedeku and Mr. Samuel Ansah spoke about the need to ensure the success of the project through the collective effort of the communities involved.
The Chief Executive Officer of Trinity Care and Needy Foundation, Rev. David Dwomoh also touched on the vision and mission of the Foundation and the selection of Ekwankrom and Jukwa to benefit from the project. He said “poverty can be eradicated if we can put our minds on the solutions than the causes and effects of poverty”. He called on all present to support the project from now to its implementation. He understood that such a project will encounter different phases of challenges but he reiterated that with oneness of mind and purpose we can all join hearts and hands to ensure the success of the project.
Ample opportunity was given to the audience to ask questions and contribute to the function. Based on the questions and contributions we realized that the whole communities are solidly behind the foundation towards this drive, but they were quick to add that they have been deceived by several bodies and agencies that have come there to present similar project.
Questioner forms were given to those who want to be part of the project to complete and hand it over to the Operations Officer (Rev. Jeph Bright Akwandoh) of the Foundation. One of the Speakers (Mr. Harry Tedeku) was moved to give an amount of 50 GH cedi (500,000) to one of the participants who incidentally needed to be supported with funds urgently.
Attached to this report are some of the photos during the program.
PROJECT BUDGETRY EXPENSES
DETAIL QUANTITY UNIT COST TOTAL
Flyers 200pcs 50GH
Refreshment 350GH
Stage Banner 1pcs lump sum 30GH
Town Banners 10pcs 22 220GH
Posters 1,000pcs lump sum 120GH
Invitation Cards 50pcs lump sum 25GH
Coverage (Video/Photographs) lump sum 200GH
Public Address System 1 Day lump sum 72GH
Canopies 6Rooms (20x20) 100,000 60GH
Chairs 500pcs 1000 50GH
TV lump sum lump sum 120GH
Resource Personnel’s Allowance lump sum 200GH
Refreshment for Medical Personnel lump sum 50GH
Staff Allowance 5 500,000 250GH
Project Administration 2 month’s 1,000,000 200GH
Miscellaneous lump sum 100GH
TOTAL 1897GH
FOUNDATION’S CONTRIBUTION 700GH
GRAND TOTAL OF AMOUNT SPENT 2597GH
EQUIVALENT IN DOLLAR = $ 2,886
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