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Western Heritage Home/GCJ Ghana Alum Wishlist

Western Heritage Home/Global Citizen Journey Ghana Alumni Wish List

We, Ghanaians and North Americans together, are interested in new ideas and potential projects. If you wish to discuss your ideas or need more information, please contact Maryanne Ward, 360-848-6568 (gcjghana@verizon.net) or any GCJ Ghana Alum.

GCJ Ghana alums enjoy giving presentations about our work in Axim. We have skilled speakers, slide presentations, computer projection equipment, etc. Contact us to arrange to meet with you or your group.

The information below outlines what we are working on, Ghanaians and North Americans together. It may seem like a dull listing, but behind the words are passion and excitement. The WHH Board is energized, and exercising their strong leadership in the community of Axim. Together, with your help, we CAN make a difference by focusing on grassroots efforts in full, transparent partnership with our Ghanaian partners.

Children’s Program (top priority)

$150/yr provides supplemental support to enable an orphaned child who lives in family home within the extended family system to attend school. Note: Schools costs include registration and exam fees, uniforms, sandals, underclothing as needed, text and exam books, book bag, mid-day meal. Tuition may be required. Although the Ghanaian government pays tuition in the “government” schools, there are not enough slots for all children, and also, since the children walk to school, there may not be a government school near enough to their home.

$600/yr (or $50/month) fully supports a homeless orphaned child in the orphanage. Support includes school, PLUS food, clothing, adult care, medical needs, and other essentials.

Orphanage/Community Learning Center Capital Needs

$5000 for a manually pumped bore hole (well) for supplemental supply of potable water for Orphanage during electrical outages which prevent the piped water system pumps from running

$10,000 for a large poly tank and stand to capture and store non-potable water during the rainy season for cleaning, bathing, watering garden, etc. Functions as emergency backup water supply during the dry season.

$12,000 for a bus to transport children and to rent out to earn revenue for Children’s Program

$15,000 to complete the Community Learning Center. Supply electrical power, bathrooms, water hookup. Install electrical conduit for computer lab. Finish terrazzo finish on the floors, paint. Outfit rooms with doors. Provide chairs and tables for large meeting room. Provide computer desks and chairs for computer learning lab. Install light fixtures, handrails. A white board or two would be nice.

30-40 XP-level computers and necessary peripherals for Computer Learning Lab

Expertise/components for solar (photovoltaic) electricity generation or diesel generator

Other

$1500 to complete our project to provide hand-washing stations, known as “veronica buckets” to every school

Women’s microfinancing funding

Funding to expand the existing public piped water system to the 60% in Axim not served, who now depend on inadequate and sometimes unsanitary shallow hand-dug wells

Funding for volunteer experts to travel to Axim as requested by WHH

Funding for basic costs for Ghanaian experts to teach AIDs awareness and other classes needed by the community. Note: Income over and above expenses will help fund the Children’s Program.

Grant-writing expertise, especially African children’s school support programs

Practical and successful expertise/ideas for self-sustaining activities for orphanages, especially ideas for entrepreneurial, for-profit economic activities in Axim/Nzema East District.

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RSS Delegate Dennis Gaither’s GCJ Kashmir 2018 Updates!

  • An Afternoon with Action India September 29, 2018
    Dear Friends, It has been an interesting and fruitful time here in Delhi.  And we are eagerly anticipating our travel soon to Kashmir, where we will be meeting the 13 Kashmiri delegates with whom we will be living and working.  That really is the heart of this project. While in Delhi we have been meeting […]
    Dennis Gaither
  • Arriving in Delhi September 26, 2018
    Dear Friends, At last we have arrived in Delhi!  Our delegate group from the US is forming, with two more coming tonight and another coming on Monday.  And we are anxious to meet with our Kasmiri delegates with whom we will be living and working when we travel to Srinagar next Monday. This Monday morning […]
    Dennis Gaither
  • Reflections on a Slave Fort – A Healing Across Time September 6, 2018
    Dear Friends, As our departure time approaches and we will soon be meeting our friends in Kashmir as part of the Global Citizen Journey Kashmir project, I am reflecting on past travels and the powerful experiences they evoked.  One of those would have to be a visit to a 17th – 18th century slave fort […]
    Dennis Gaither
  • Global Citizen Journey Kashmir Project August 23, 2018
    I am feeling both thrilled and challenged to be travelling to Kashmir, India this October as a delegate with the Global Citizen Journey Kashmir 2018 project. This will be my third such project, the first two being a library building project in the remote Niger Delta of Nigeria and a year later an orphanage project […]
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