Vocational Center for Freed Slave Girls in Ghana
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Summary
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 $10,000 was raised for this project. |
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
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: $10,000
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 $10,000 . The original project funding goal was $10,000.
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
Resources
- Project's External Homepage (http://www.awdf.org)
- Liberation campaign for girl slaves (http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/vol15no4/154troko.htm)
- 126 Trokosi Slaves to Be Freed (http://allafrica.com/stories/200508170667.html)
- Ghana's Trapped Slaves (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/1158115.stm)
Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
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:
Project Sponsor
Organization
African Women's Development Fund
AWDF P.M.B CT 89, Cantonments,
Accra,
Ghana
011-233-21-780476
http://www.awdf.org
African Women's Development Fund's Funded Projects on GlobalGiving
Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Ghana
and can also be found under 
Women and Girls.
For more information about Ghana, read the Human Development Report on Ghana or the Wikipedia entry for Ghana.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 1, 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 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.
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