Fr Paul and Child

Goals

Main Objectives for the Project

  • Assist children to pass Ghana government exams so they can continue their education and get better paying jobs and feel better about themselves
  • Build a facility where Father Mensah and others can elevate the children's knowledge and spirituality to enable them to make a better life for themselves and their families

Goals for 2010

Since the inception our group has seen amazing things in

  1. The people involved in the project
  2. The people in Awaso, Ghana, Africa
  3. Our Fundraising efforts
  4. Construction of the school building
  5. Contacts provided for various areas of expertise necessary to complete the project

The number, background and location of the people involved in this project is beyond imagination. The “idea” has become a reality. We have received donations from as far away as Ireland, all over the United States and Canada. We have supporters in Eastern Canada, California, Innisfail, St. Albert, Edmonton and Drayton Valley, Alberta not to mention the various small towns with relatives of supporters who are making cash donations and items for the students and teachers. God is blessing the project through the people and the people are being blessed by the project.

We have provided employment and money to the local economy through labour and materials which help individuals and the whole community. We negotiated successfully with the chief and people with interest for an additional 17 acres making the total school site 20 acres. Now we will be able to develop a plot of land to grow food for the school programs and teach the children horticulture and cooking skills right there. When the residence for orphan students is complete we can help to support them off the land. It also gives us the area needed to build accommodations for visiting and resident teachers on the site. (Summer 2010)

The school will hold it’s first classes of Kindergarten, Grade 1 and Grade 2 in September of 2010. The building is a “pearl” in the jungle. There have been delegations of elders walking miles to see a school with “tile floors” for children. This is a major accomplishment in rural Ghana. We must complete the road construction to the school and as much landscaping as possible before the school opens and the rainy season starts in March and goes until September each year. The heaviest rains are in June and July. Father Paul is scheduled to move to Ghana the beginning of July 2010 permanently. He has dual citizenship (American and Ghanian) so he can travel back and forth as we need him for our fundraising efforts and updates on how the school is going. The California group has taken on the responsibility of fundraising for the furnishings of the school, which we hope to purchase mostly from Awaso and surrounding communities. Thanks to all of them for what they are doing. See their progress on www.awasohope.com . We have an annual silent auction in Drayton Valley the last Friday in May each year.  This is the “third annual” and will be May 28, 2010.   

We have updated our budget and it is on another part of this website. There is much work to be completed and the ongoing costs will need to be covered. We are starting a scholarship and sponsorship program. If you would like to support the final construction of the school, or sponsor a specific student, or contribute to a scholarship, please contact us!! Any donations will be tax deductible.

HELP THEM TO HELP THEMSELVES. We must give the people of Awaso, Ghana, Africa “a hand up not a hand out” and they will exceed our expectations in the future. The potential is explosive.


Click here to view the current Budget for the project.