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Name of Organization: Parent and Child Foundation (PACF)

Country: Ghana

Project Title: "Contribution to end child trafficking in Kokrobitey and infrastructure work on the D/A school, J.S.S.1 classroom block"

Project Timeframe: 3 months

Location of Project:

Budget Amount: $3,000

NGO contact and website:
Elizabeth Dunquah
Executive Director

P.O. Box MP. 209 Mamprobi, Accra
Ghana
Tel: (233) 277 60 08 58
E-mail: pacf1@yahoo.com

Project's Primary Objective: Objective # 2 - Strengthen formal and transitional education systems

Description of Organization: Parent And Child Foundation (PACF), is a non-governmental, non-profit, non- partisan and action-oriented organization registered in May 1996.PACF's mission is to strive for building bridges, to add meaning and value to the lives of all children through counselling, advocacy, and service delivery. PACF improves the quality of life of children by collaborating with schools, parents, the community, civil society organizations, government agencies, and the donor community.

The main activities of PACF are the following:
  1. Provide counselling services to children, teachers, and parents
  2. Protect and promote the human rights of children within the guiding principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
  3. Provide a channel for effective communication on issues critical to children through advocacy
  4. Organize workshops, seminars, public education campaigns, and training programmes on issues critical to parents, children, and child workers
  5. Conduct research as a basis of promoting the rights and quality of children's lives

Description of Project funded by CIRCLE: The purpose of the UAC-funded project is to contribute to the elimination of child trafficking in Kokrobitey and its environs, in the Ga District Assembly (Greater Accra region).

The immediate objective is that at the end of the project 40 trafficked children (75% boys and 25% girls) who have been reinserted into schools through the IPEC program, and who are in need of extra tuition, will have received additional tuition and will attend afternoon classes. In addition, ten in-school children (60% girls and 40% boys) who are at risk of dropping out of school (all from the Kokrobitey D/A school) will have received assistance to remain in school. Major (cement) block works on the J.S.S.1 temporary structure will have been completed to repair the school's roof. The project will undertake the following detailed activities:
  1. Afternoon classes: Community teachers will be engaged to teach 40 trafficked children, reinserted into school through the IPEC program, literacy and numeracy three times per week for three months, to prepare them for full re-enrolment for the next academic year (2004 –2005).
  2. Enrolment of children at risk of being trafficked: PACF will identify ten in-school children who are at risk of being trafficked because their parents have lost their jobs or they are from single-parent homes and, due to poverty, they can no longer pay their fees. PACF will pay their fees and talk to their parents about the dangers of child trafficking, and the need to remain in school. (Such girls in upper primary often drop out before reaching the J.S.S.)
  3. Infrastructure improvements on the existing: JS.S.1 temporary structure: Until this year, children of Kokrobitey D/A school who were willing to further their education at the Junior Secondary School (J.S.S.) level had to walk so many kilometres in and out to a near village (Bortianor), that most would drop out. Out of concern, the Kokrobitey D/A school this year put up a temporary structure classroom for J.S.S.1 with as many as 30 children.

Project Targets (Common Indicators):
Enrollment: 40 children
Persistence: 10 children will stay in the program
Transition: transition of children to all levels
Completion: