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Home for
Hope
Home for Hope today plus clinic built by Montchevre / Ghana
Progress its capacity, this new home was a schools) - as they return to the
residence for over 40 children.
their meals there when on
Children at the Home were happy, Home to sleep and eat all of
Report healthy, and enrolled in school, school break. They do this
because,
while being exposed to English
the
despite
and other cultures from volunteers
around the world. government's mandate, to find
good homes and fund basic
needs for at-risk children, the
However, we now find ourselves at
reality on the ground means
a crossroads. Despite dedicating
many years to this project, with that mandate cannot be totally
fulfilled. In short, some children
grants totaling nearly $10 0,0 0 0,
simply don't go to their new
there has been a dramatic change
homes or return to their
Home for Hope just prior to completion / Ghana in Ghanian governmental policies
Prior to our introduction to AYD, regarding children's homes and families of origin because the
the Children?s Home for Hope orphanages. This change, while families cannot support them.
was established by Alliance for centered around the desire to Indeed, these children see the
Youth Development, led by Elvis reunite children with their Home as their home, so they
Donkoh (AYD's founder) in June extended families, has largely return to where they know
20 07, with the aim of caring for halted our ability to serve new they will have housing and
and supporting orphans and children in the Home, as they are food security.
vulnerable children in the local now being directed away from it. Thus, although we will do all we
Women's literacy program, Uganda
community. The Home is situated can to support the Government
Regardless of this new mandate,
in the rural town of Asebu in the of Ghana?s initiatives to reunify
The GO Fund wishes to continue to
Abura Asebu Kwamankese (AAK) families, we see a need to
fund The Home for Hope, to
District in the Central Region of provide support to children in
support children in need of
Ghana. Asebu is a community of this time of transition. We will
housing. One such child is Jeff,
over 80,0 0 0 with no facilities for work hand-in-hand with Elvis
who is both special needs and HIV
orphaned children. From Donkoh ? who as an MP in the
positive; because of these and
20 07-2012 the Home was located government, knows as much as
other reasons, he still requires the
in a building that had been an anyone about the importance
security of the year-round home.
abandoned post office; once and value of this policy ? to
Jeff is joined by other children -
word spread about it, local align our practices with the
the nominally reunified students
residents began to drop off governmental mandates while
(numbering approximately 13
children whose parents had died identifying children who
children who attend boarding
or were found by the side of the remain homeless and
road. unwanted.
However, the building was only a Home for Hope will continue to
temporary home. In 2010 the GO serve as a haven and shelter
Fund was solicited for aid, and so for those that need it the most.
held a benefit to raise funds to Most likely that will be in the
build a permanent home on land form of a boarding facility for
owned by AYD. At the height of Pathfinder Int'l Academy.
Defroza, scholarship Recipient / Tanzania
Home for Hope family in 2012 / Ghana 5
