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