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Financial Support through Sponsorship
Each child is sponsored by a family in the Netherlands. The money donated goes towards school-fees, uniforms, medical costs and other support for the family in Ghana. Without this kind of support the children would have no opportunity to go to school, and their only means of survival would be working on the street.
Working through Volunteers
Much of the work we do couldn’t be achieved without the support of volunteers. Volunteers come from all over the world to help with various programmes within S.K.E.P, such as teaching in schools or orphanages, HIV&AIDS education and fundraising.
Current and Future Projects
Bicycles: There has been on-going fundraising to supply bicycles to the children who live far from school. See the Bikes 4 Ghana page for more information.
School-building: The school is very crowded with over 80 children in a class, therefore we need to raise funds to build extra classrooms. The roof of the old building is also falling down and needs renovating.
Computer Training Extra Lessons: S.K.E.P. Is also aiming to give a basic computer literacy education to the sponsored children. In the future we would like to have a small computer lab of 10 networked PC's. This will help introduce the child to this important technology resource. Through this the child will be able to communicate easily and quickly with the sponsor family and access world-wide information through the internet. We would particularly like volunteers who have good computer knowledge for this purpose.
Water Reservoir and Pumping Facility: We are currently trying to provide a clean water supply to the Bagga-Bagga school and its neighbourhood. This cannot be achieved without support through donations.
(above right) Children queue to get water from the rusty tank outside the school
2010 Projects:
Include building and improving the capacity for wellbeing of deprived women and single mothers. This project is geared towards giving the responsibility of childrens eductaion, healthcare and their upkeep back to their mothers.
The organisation shall also be providing educational materials and additional classrooms to the Bagabaga school to help solve the problem of over-congestion.
There will also be a mini computer lab planned to be provided for the school.
If you are interested in sponsoring a child or simply giving a donation, please get in touch (skepoluu@yahoo.com). Also groups or individuals from schools or universities aged 18 or over who would like to volunteer on any of the above mentioned projects are most welcome.