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RANSCODE 2 spin-off Projects
CONCEPT NOTE
APPLICANT AND PARTNERS
SIFE/STAND
Name of the applicant:
Ghana (Accra)
March 2009
Nationality of the applicant:
(geographical location)
Date of establishment:
Student Voluntary Group
Type of organization:*
Registered
Legal status:
Partner 1:
Partner 2:
NB: Add as many rows as partners
Name: STAND
Nationality: Netherland
Date of establishment: 2011
Type of organization: NGO
Name: jaydez vision foundation
Nationality :Ghana
Date of establishment: 2011
Type of organization: NGO
Applicant's contact details for the purpose of this action:
Postal address:
P.O Box AC 483 Arts Centre, Accra
Telephone number: Country
code + city code + number
Mobile: Country code +
number
Fax number: Country code +
city code + number
Contact person for this
action :
Contact person’s e-mail
address :
E-mail address of the
Organisation
Website of the organisation:
+233277046364
+233267046364
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Grace Adadzewa Owoo
[email protected]
[email protected]
www.sifegh.org
*Government agency (national, regional, local), NGO, migrant association, academe, private sector,
other (please specify).
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Title of the project:
Tomefa agro tourism project
Location(s) of the project:
Weija Accra
Total duration of the
project (in months):
48 months
Total project budget:
GHC 45000
Amount requested from
Transcode:
STRENGHT
Objectives of the project:
<Overall objective(s)> help others overcome poverty, enhance growth
with care for the environment and to create economic opportunity for the
sustainable development of their community.
<Specific objective(s)>To be the voice of the voiceless
Target group(s) :
Inhabitants of Tomefa island
Expected results :
better their standard of living
Main activities:
Farming and fishing.
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RELEVANCE OF THE PROJECT
BACKGROUND OF SIFE
SIFE is a non - profit making organization that engages students from tertiary
institutions in development of community outreach projects that uses business
and economic concepts to improve the quality of lives and the standards of
living of the people in the community. SIFE therefore partners with
organizations both local and international in other to come together to better the
living standards of the poor and needy through its synergies. Mostly SIFE work
is a voluntary service that SIFERS provide throughout their activities.
TOMEFA PROJECT
SIFERS are student of the University College of Management studies (UCOMS)
We write this to tell you about the plight of an Island called Tomefa which is
located along the Weija Lake, right in the heart of Accra. There are over 1,600
people living on this island and the sad story is that they live below the poverty
line EVEN IN Ghanaian Terms. They lack basic necessities of life like healthcare and educational facilities, treated water and electricity. It was basically a
question of doing some non-curricula activities which later became a question of
a slight in our conscience to see how other people in Ghana capital lived their
lives. We the students began our project with the projecting the island an
exercise in social justice and the best we could do at that time was to promote it,
at first as an Agro-tourism Centre in Ghana by creating strong synergies with
government agencies, UNDP and the Ghana media. We have so far registered
900 farmers under the National Health Insurance Scheme with the help of the
National Health Insurance Authority. We have also introduced the farmers to
modern farming technologies like raising crops in green housing and the use of
well-dried manure instead of wet dropping which contains a lot of pathogens.
The people of this Island live on the little income they earn from their farming
business. The worst part is that they find it difficult to look after their families
during pre-harvest time. As a result of this, plans need to be advanced to do
series of projects on the island this year to improve the living standards of the
people of Tomefa. These projects have been well explained below:
Shallow Fish Farming project
70% of the people of Tomefa are fish farmers and they live solely on the income
from that business. The inhabitants predominantly depend on the river for fish
all the time. Modern fish farming methods like shallow fish farming; for
example. Constructing fish ponds in the river were unknown to them and as such
they are not utilized. This poor fish farming mechanism associated with the
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people of Tomefa culminate in low harvest irrespective of the harvest season
leading to low income levels and as extreme poverty for majority of the people.
More so, the farmers need to be sensitized on the need to employ shallow fish
farming technique so as to improve their farming practices as well as income
levels.
Health Facility Project
Tomefa with its 1,600 populace, lack proper health facilities. The people often
have to choose between spending nearly 30 minutes on the river to access
modern medical care and one hour fifty minutes by road to satisfy the same
health objective. Many of them are not able to afford the health care cost and
they use some traditional methods of medicine that have created untold
problems with worsening sickly conditions. Others believe in church related
healing procedures which make things even worse SIFE student are trying to get
the necessary funds to establish a health clinic, at least for first aid purposes.
There are plans to train one of the young people to be trained as a first aid nurse
and we have to find the resources for the fees and upkeep. Some of our students
are able to explain to them the need for such a clinic and they are coming round
to accept the importance of having this. We all have to help with the agenda of
bettering the health situation of Tomefa by building a community clinic for the
occupants of the Island for their health is their wealth.
Educational Facility
The children of Tomefa community are deprived of fundamental educational
rights such as access to basic education and other learning facilities including
convenient places of study and community libraries. Out of the 1600 populace,
40% of this figure constitutes those who are eligible for basic education. It is
overwhelming to note that, these people have access to only one basic school in
the vicinity. This school provides education up to primary three and all
continuing students have to go on with their education outside Tomefa either by
river or road to and from Tomefa whichever the case is desirable. It is in the
light of this phenomenon that all must put hands together in seeking to aid in the
development of the basic educational infrastructure within the community of
Tomefa. Its due to the movement to and fro on the river to get access to
education, lives of some young students were lost. In this plight, we suggest the
island really needs educational facilities to prevent such occurrences.
The Blind family
Located on Tomefa Island is one family called the Lalala Family who are all
blind? It is amazing to see these five member blind family fishing on the Weija
Lake. That is the only source of income to them and without fishing, they will
go hungry. Imagine been on an island with one of the highest poverty rates in
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Ghana and been blind, and as if that is not enough, using this situation to fish in
other to feed your family. We managed to secure a sponsorship for this family to
undergo their operation and they now have their sight back. This Lalala family
was used as a pilot family for their operation since they were having the fear of
losing their lives when they undergo the operation. But after education them,
they went and the operation was successful, there are two more blind families
who are also willing to undergo the operation. in our quest to help the family is
what the ones that has been operated on has to live on in terms of feeding and
clothing since they have been prohibited from work now. And also funds to
help the others undergo their operation. They really need our help.
As concerned as SIFERS are, we write to invite you to extend a helping hand to
the people of Tomefa for their standard of living to be improved, for we can all
remain living, thinking and serving where we are coming from.
We are counting on your usual corporation.
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