Girls, freed from slavery, are gaining valuable skills by attending a vocational center that was built with help from GlobalGiving donors. The center now needs a safe water supply and a modern oven.
How Donors Like You Helped
Thanks to donors like you, a total of $10,120 was raised for this project.
Received $10,120 from 54 donations from people like:
In rural West Ghana it was believed by some that giving a virgin between the ages of 8-15 to a priest to serve as his slave would atone for the sins of the family. This practice, known as "trokosi" recently received national attention and was banned. Thousands of liberated slaves are now participating in vocational training programs. Most slaves are now grown women with children, and have few of the survival skills necessary for the outside world.
Activities
At the center in Ghana, over 40 women are taught sustainable vocational skills like batik dyeing, dressmaking, processing palm oils, baking, and kente weaving. The center now needs a safe, clean water supply and baking and confectionary equipment.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $10,120
Funding Information
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding.
Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as
indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the
"Progress Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $10,120. The original project funding goal was $10,000.
Vocational training for girls and women and their integration back into society will prevent them from migrating to capital towns to be enslaved by other forms of social vices.
Project Message
This life of servitude is deeply imbedded in these girls. Without vocational training, the only option for many to survive is to migrate to capital towns and become prostitutes.
- Fortune Abodakpi, Coordinator
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Fortune Abodakpi,
Coordinator
Ative Vocational Centre P.O. Box AK 169, Akatsi Volta,
Ghana
011-233-21-780476
Email:
This project was last updated on January 25, 2007.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 01, 2004.
Latest Update from the Field
Update from ATIVE Vocational Center
By Abigail Burgesson - Senior Program manager of AWDF, January 25, 2007 02:13 PM
The ATIVE Vocational Center has received regular contributions since it was featured in the GlobalGiving website. Contributions from the project have supported the purchase and installation of a commercial oven for the catering department and the construction of a rain gutter and water reservoir. The construction of the water project will be completed in January 2007.
The vocational center is an example of how many women have been empowered to transform their own lives and that of the people living in their communities.
Please read the complete report below for an update on vocational center progress! The project is working on taking pictures and hopes to send some photos of the project soon. Attachments:
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