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.
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.
"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) 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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Donation Stats
3 people donated a total of $850.00
