Kotobabi N02 Schools Modernization Project in Ghana - Phase I: Security Wall

$850 of $52,000 raised

  Organized by Fort Lauderdale Community Center


The Project:

The project will be responsible for a total of four schools. Building a preschool, modernizing two primary schools and one junior high school, affecting the education of some 3,000 children from preschool to 9th grade, and 125 teachers and staff, the project will be BOLD and completed in six phases.

As we complete each of the six phases, we will be asking support of this project one phase at a time. To ensure transparency and a step-by-step process for all our donors, sponsors, and partners of this project with weekly updates.

This has never been done before-not like this!


Our Goal:

For Phase I: $52,000

  • We’ll be building a much-needed security wall around the four-acre  property. This is necessary to stop the theft and vandalism currently happening. In addition, we will be constructing a security post to control in-and-out vehicles and foot traffic on the campus. Paid security for the next twelve months and secured an architect.


Entrance Now:



 

YouTube Link:

 

Rending for Main Entrance
And Security Wall Around the School:




Brief Synopsis:  

According to UNICEF, 3.65 million children in Ghana live in poverty, and many of these children attend Kotobabi NO2 Schools in Community 18. Their environment is not conducive to learning, which keeps them lagging behind.

For the last 20 years, our organization has created an educational environment that helped thousands of youth pursue their passions by looking ahead to the jobs and businesses of the future through education and vocational training. We’ve offered thousands of families a better chance at living a good life.  



BringBackHope (BBH), our NGO in Ghana, is looking to provide a sustainable community development project for Ghana’s public schools, starting at Kotobabi N02 TWMA A&B and JHS as the pilot, “Uplifting Our Youth: The Modernization of Kotobabi NO2 Schools.”



Project Description:

For the last 3 years, BringBackHope has been offering their services to several villages and youth in Ghana, but discovered many were unable to participate in their programs due to the lack of skill level to even perform base tasks using the internet, Google, MS Office Suites.

We discovered even those in the college sector could not operate a basic Excel spreadsheet, create a database in Access, or a PowerPoint presentation. In the US, we take for granted these simple task learned by students in elementary to middle school. This sets back the average student in Ghana, who can’t even use Word to write a letter, when over 90% of world businesses uses these platforms for day-to-day operations.



The Board decided after their visit in 2019 to Ghana, during “The Year of Return,” to help with educating the youth in jobs and businesses of the future, and to do that, we must start at the heart of Ghana’s public school system.
                   

       “Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.”  
                    Former South African President Nelson Mandela



"Uplifting Our Youth: The Modernization of Kotobabi NO2 Schools," gives students the ability to prosper in an atmosphere conducive to learning, with relevant curriculum from sources like educational apps, Khan Academy, and YouTube, giving each student training on new methods of learning through the actual use of the internet with safe guards. Including updated desks, chairs, textbooks and materials for all grade levels; clean drinking water, sanitation, computer rooms providing extracurricular activities in STEAM (Science, Technology, Economics/Environment, the Arts, Math), and physical education, with libraries for all four schools; and furnishing, and bestowing upon teachers and staff the gift of modernization through updated technology with projectors in every classroom.

Teachers will also benefit, not just by teaching in a great new way but also by learning themselves new concepts and techniques being used by teachers in the US and all over the world, with the ability to implement those skills learned, thus providing students with a better education.   

BringBackHope will offer students after-school and summer enrichment activities, with tutoring, mentorship, field-trips, the arts consisting of music, crafts, dance and painting, sports, gender-specific programming through Empowering Women And Girls and Inspire2Hire, programs teaching soft skills, job training, communication, conflict resolution and public speaking through our monthly podcast run by the students to talk about their feelings, what’s going on in the world around them, and what’s important to them with their peers aboard on Blog Talk Radio with a video blog uploaded to FLCC’s website and its YouTube channel, plus them learning a skill in how to operate a podcast.

Parents will receive Family Strengthening classes teaching parenting, family relationships, financial literacy, and nutrition, just to name a few.  




Putting the power of education in the hands of students, teachers and parents, is where it belongs! Free breakfast and lunch will be offered, which will change the dynamics on how children learn better without being hungry!

Class Sizes: 1 teacher and 1 teachers helper (volunteer/parent) to 20 students to a class; this will allow students a performance increase of a 100% from this project's educational approach since it started pretty much from scratch. 

This project will rejuvenate the PTA that has long been closed due to parents seeing no change in their children’s education, and now parents will see the investment being made in their children’s future.

Parents will become stakeholders in the schools, and the desire to give their membership dues will be there, providing more sustainability for the programs and services implemented.

Parents with hardships will be able to provide volunteer time at the school where needed, like help in the cafeteria, a teachers/helper, and/or help in building and rehabbing the facilities.


Proposed Locations and Venues:

Tema-West

Target Audience:

Children and families in Community 18 who live in extreme poverty with inadequate resources to meet their basic needs with an emphasis on women and girls.


Amplification Plan:

The project will affect some 3,000 children from preschool to 9th grade, but also 125 teachers and staff that will benefit from classroom updates and educational certifications, and new and updated tools to use.

After the completion of the modernization project and educational resources are in place, BringBackHope will monitor and track the project for the next 10 years to keep track of the programs and services for all four schools, but also to measure outcomes, accomplishments, and failures with pre- and post-test and surveys as a way to improve. Also providing an end-of-year report with those findings in our annual report.


Public and Private Partners:

We have connections with colleges, elementary, middle, and high schools in the US, the Ghana Public Schools System in Tema-West, the Honorable Chairman Kwesi Poku Bosompen NPP of Tema-West, the Tema Excellence Foundation, Ambassador Millie Tucker of the State of the African Diaspora, and her NGO, the Aaron Marvel Foundation, and the University of Ghana who will help with supplementing the project with expertise, resources, as well as grants and other sponsorships so it can be self-sustaining.


(Left to Right) Vida Williams, (New) School Improvement Support Officer, Kwatma Akosah, Client of BBH-EWAG, Hope Gary, CEO of NGO-BBH, Joyce Juliet Darko, Head Teacher of Kotobabi N02 School Primary B, Isaac MacCarthy-Mensah, Municipal Director of Education in the Tema-West Office, Veronica Akosah, Head Teacher of Kotobabi N02 School Primary A, Rebecea Menfay, (Old) School Improvement Support Office -  August 2022


(Left to Right) Hope Gary, CEO of NGO-BBH and Millie Tucker, of the State of the African Diaspora - April 2022



Veronica Akosah, Head Teacher of Kotobabi N02 School Primary A, the Honorable Chairman Kwesi Poku Bosompen NPP of Tema-West, Hope Gary, CEO of NGO-BBH, Joyce Juliet Darko, Head Teacher of Kotobabi N02 School Primary B - August 2022


Performance Indicators and Monitoring Plan:

BringBackHope’s Performance Monitoring Plan for the Modernization of Kotobabi Schools (BBH-PMP-TMK), will based off USAID PMP.


Total Cost:

The cost of the total project is $628,000.00.


WHAT'S NEXT? Phase II - $35,000
Trash Removal - Demolition and Build-Out






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