Sunday 18 July 2010

Ghana - charities

http://www.raisinghopefoundation.co.uk/
("Working with Ghana's neediest children")
Work with orphans - works alongside Living
Hope Foundation which is building an orphanage.
Saw a presentation by the Founder (RHF) - London
approx 2009.

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http://www.touchoflight.org.uk/
Organise periodic trips to help with eye
care in remote parts of Ghana.
Met a spouse of one of the contributors.

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Part of stuffyourrucksack.com :

Village by Village - digs wells and provides
educational scholarships for children. Would receive
Land Rover parts, school books, pens and pencils (as
at 18.07.2010)

Has 2 or 4 week projects in construction, health,
English, sport..

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Part of stuffyourrucksack.com :

The Building Fund (website: http://www.thebuildingfund.org/)
- funds the building of classrooms, provides supplies,
scholarships and provides volunteers to a school.
Would receive Pens, pencils, notebooks, erasers, rulers,
backpacks, footballs, skipping ropes, children's books,
paintbrushes, coloured pencils, paper and watercolours.

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Grace and Hope Orphanage
(http://www.winchestertravelhealth.co.uk/graceandhope/
Have only read about this on the web whilst looking for
details of a charity. Just outside Kumasi. 16 children
between the ages of 4 and 12. Provide care, accommodation and
facilities for homework - 2 housemothers. Facilities for 25
children at the home if another housemother to look after them.

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  From the net:
  http://www.livinghopeinternationalministries.com/home