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Upcoming Project Ghana - June 2023

Overview

Education in Ghana was mainly informal before the arrival of European settlers, who built a formal education system addressed to the elites. With the independence of Ghana in 1957, universal education became an important political objective.  In 2011, the primary school net enrollment rate was 84%, described by UNICEF as “far ahead” of the Sub-Saharan average. In its 2013-14 report, the World Economic Forum ranked Ghana 46th out of 148 countries for education system quality. In 2010, Ghana’s literacy rate was 71.5%, with a notable gap between men (78.3%) and women (65.3%).


Even though the above statistics may seem attractive, it does not address the needs of the children and their families. According to educators and government officials, poverty is the major reason Ghanaian students miss school a lot. Despite the country’s strong enrollment rate, Ghana’s levels of poverty are very high, with 30 percent living on less than $1 a day and 54 percent living on less than $2 a day according to WorldVision.org. That means many students across Ghana live in grinding poverty and must help their families by working in the markets, on farms or on fishing boats instead of going to school. Their parents do not have enough money to buy text books, exercise books or writing utensils. 


The purpose of our trips is to go make a difference in the lives of these children and empower them to learn. Our goal is to provide every single child in each school a set of school supplies (including pencils, pens, coloring pencils, ruler, notebooks, etc.). In addition to school supplies, we will be organizing reading clinics, delivering more books for the library we started in 2016, and working with local clinics/community health centers delivering medical supplies.  


What we hope to achieve this year in Ghana

Provide students (roughly 500) with a school bag stocked with notebooks, rulers and writing utensils.

Cost: roughly $10 per student ($5,000).


Kindergarten Building (2 classroom building for the younger kids) 

Cost: $10,000 - $15,000


Purchase of a School Bus

Cost: $10,000 - $12,000


Provide teachers with teaching and learning materials such as abacus, blocks, puzzles, visual aids and flash cards.

Cost: Yet to be determined


Provide medical supplies for several community health clinics and centers 

Cost: Yet to be determined


See below for more projects

Help fund project Ghana 2023

Current & FUture Projects

Lolito Elementary & Junior High

  • Kindergarten Building (2 classroom building for the younger kids) 
  • Book drive to replenish school library/resource center setup in 2016
  • School Supplies for both Elementary and Junior High
  • Electricity and running water to Junior High School 
  • A playground

Kafedel Excellence Academy

  • Purchase of a School Bus
  • Complete resource center including a library, science and computer lab
  • School Supplies – books, utensils, book bags
  • Autistic Educational Center 
  • Support a child program (Scholarship for kids) 

Empowering Young Women

  • Collaborate with Days for Girls International, provide menstrual care kits along with educational seminars for young women on self care.

Brazil 2024

 Partnering with a local elementary school in Pureza, Rio Grande do Norte

Recap 2017

Empowering Kids in Lolito, Ghana. Sponsored by New Life Community Church, Coralville, IA 

REcap 2016

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Email us: EddiesTeddiesOrg@gmail.com

Phone: (347) 201-3339

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Announcement

Ella De Young, a senior at Iowa City West High School is helping our cause by raising $10,000 towards the purchase of a school bus for children in Ghana. Help Ella reach her goal!

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