Eight classrooms are now completed with doors and windows installed. Tools and equipment for various vocational skills training centres such as catering, cloth weaving, carpentry, dress making, and hairdressing materials have been procured. The classrooms still need flooring, wiring, tables and chairs to be ready for use.
Nazareth Home Vocational School
Project Code: CGHCT-1200038 | Project Location: Ghana
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About the project
Nazareth Home for God’s Children is located in Sang, a small village community in the northern region of Ghana in West Africa. Sang is a rural community which lies between the city of Tamale, the regional capital of the Northern Ghana, and Yendi, the traditional capital of the Dagbon lands.
The community rely heavily on subsistence agriculture to generate income, typically farming yams, millet, maize, groundnut, and shea-butter, and rearing of farm animals. The farmers do not have the financial resources to buy or rent the required equipment for large scale farming.
The Marian Sisters of Eucharistic Love (MASEL), a congregation of religious Sisters under the auspice of the Catholic Diocese of Yendi in Ghana endeavour to provide a safe home and basic necessities of life including love and acceptance to children in need.
Classrooms and training
Construction and staff
Boreholes, and fencing around the centre is still to be completed. While the recruitment of facilitators (teachers) and training of staff is expected to be be achieved by January 2022. Staff have been in contact with Ghana Vocational and Technical Institutes and the Catholic Educational Unit to recruit best qualified personnel. Local contractors and labourers were hired to complete building works which has been of great benefit especially during the COVID-19 Pandemic as the project has provided secure work for them and income for their families.
COVID-19
Advertising for enrolments has already begun with parish priests in and around the Yendi Diocese informed and asked to announce the centre’s classes to their parishes. Amidst COVID-19, the cost of project materials has increased as importers are not able to import much as before. Along with the obvious challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, the centre had some resources stolen, including 20 bags of cement, some electrical parts and cables which are yet to be replaced. In response, a security guard and supervisor were employed, and no further theft has occurred.
The vocational school seeks to support those in need of greater love, care and access to education. The goal is to take vital steps towards reducing poverty within the northern region of Ghana. This project aims to raise and educate the next generation of leaders and entrepreneurs, with the prerequisite vocational skills and knowledge necessary for human and national development.
Specifically, the project is targeted at the poor and poverty-stricken areas of the region, to help the youth as well as adults in these areas who have limited skills for gainful employment, to acquire vocational training that places them in a position to better their chances of living and survival and reduce the national poverty rate.