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.