How ActionAid Ghana helped me

My name is Alice Akuka. I am currently a youth employment teacher. I am married with children Priscilla Awinso, and Ezekiel Awini.  I am 28 years old and have completed SSSCE. I completed Bawku Senior Secondary school.  In my child sponsorship days I was doing my drawings and writings in Googo Primary School.

The community was one of the fortunate communities in the Bawku West District which had the blessings of ActionAid Ghana.

Existing groups and the individuals especially the vulnerable benefitted a lot from this organisation.  The support to the community included the provision of dam, schools, clinics, accommodation for teachers and health workers, seed stores, grain bank, hand dug well etc.

Moreover, the vulnerable were supported with food for the family and sometimes the group leaders were assisted to purchase grain to store and to be sold at the lean season at an affordable price.

The farmers were trained on modern methods of farming for example the use of animals dropping and other materials for compost.  Individuals were also supported with small ruminants for rearing.

The schools were provided with learning materials especially we the sponsored children were provided with uniforms, books, pens and pencils.  Furniture and cupboards were also provided to the schools and clinic.

Rural Education Volunteers (REV teachers) were recruited and trained to help in the teaching aspect.  Reflect facilitators were also trained to handle adults as well as children of school going age which were not in school.

I recommend that ActionAid has helped me and the entire community so much.  The many young men and ladies who are educated now would not have gotten that opportunity had it not been the timely intervention of ActionAid.

It is my hope that should the community have a little push on the part of providing more classroom blocks, clinics, trainings centres for the youth and support to needy but brilliant students, it will go a long way to solve the many problems that the community still encounters due to its fast growing population