What we do
Achievements
Frankmay New Life Foundation Children’s Home is situate at Techiman in the Bono East Region of Ghana with the aim of creating life opportunities for Orphans, abandoned and vulnerable children (O.V.C.S) in the Tachiman municipality.
Overthe years, The foundation has been blessed with some partnership collaborations for her charitable works — provision of food items for the OVCS, taking care of healthcare needs through regular health screening programs and paying for free medications to be administered to as many who had one form of health disorders etc, and most importantly, FrankMay Foundation goes all out to raise funds to educate these children. Education therefore is crucial to the heart of the Foundation
Partnership / Collaboration
FrankMay Foundation collaborate with the following organizations and institutions for her charitable and humanitarian activities. Partner with us to reach out to many more children beyond the Tachiman municipality.
Municipal Assembly
Department of Social Welfare
Municipal Health Directorate
Holy Family Hospital
Churches and Mosques
Traditional Authorities
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We've supported over 50 children around Techiman and its surroundings.
Community Programs
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Educational Opportunities
As a policy, the home provides full support for the children. The Children Home serves as a place of protection for the orphans and the vulnerable children who otherwise for no fault of theirs have no one to take care of them and their education. Hence the need for total care especially their educational needs.
Provision of Food & Shelter
The foundation makes provision for at least three-square meals everyday for the a better nutrition and total well-being. We work tirelessly to support orphans and vulnerable children by ensuring they have access to nutritious meals, safe shelter, and essential resources so as to be strong and healthy always.
Development of Skills & Talent
We provide opportunities for development of talent and skills by introducing them to a variety of exciting activities such as music, art, sports, and cultural experiences. From these activities, we gathered a lot of beautiful and amazing skills from these young ones.
Guidance & Counselling
Through counseling, the children are given advice on how to manage and deal with emotional conflict and personal problems. We have, through our counselling programs equipped the children with all recent trends, current developments in different streams, demands, and financial prospectus giving priority to the child’s interests.
Our Projects
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Geographical Location of the Project
Techiman is located in the Bono East Region of Ghana. The distance between Techiman to Accra (the nation’s Capital) is 350km and the distance between Techiman and Tamale (The Regional Capital of Northern Region) is 250km respectively. Government sponsored Children’s Home can only be located in these two cities which are wide apart from Techiman, hence the compelling factor to establish a private Children’s Home in Techiman to cater for the growing number of Orphans and vulnerable children teaming up in the area due to the commercial nature of the town.
Background of the District of the Project
Techiman play host to a very big market probably the third largest market in the country after Accra and Kumasi. Traders and commuters from all over the country and other neighbouring countries travel to Techiman to buy and sell in the market, which starts on Wednesday and end on Friday each week.
According to the Ghana statistical service, population housing census conducted in 2021 indicates that the population of Techiman is 243,335. The male population is 118,699 while the female population is 124,636. Many of the people who travel from different places to the market end up staying permanently due to the proximity to the market. As a result, the town is growing fast with teaming problems of promiscuity. Burglary, sexual abuse, child neglect, children are delivered and abandoned. The department of Social Welfare do bring children to the home for temporal care. Some of the children are sometimes pre-term and others as young as a day-old baby.
HIV AIDS is also exerting a heavy toll on parents leaving behind many Orphans and the vulnerable. Most of the Orphans and vulnerable children have drop out of school due to lack of parental care; these children are stigmatized due to their predicament. They lack educational support and this greatly affect their attendance to School as well as academic performance and consequently their future is jeopardised.
Compare to other children generally, orphans and vulnerable children;
- Drop out of School
- Not performing well academically in school
- Lack educational opportunities
- Adopt to street life and start working at early ages
- Surfer from different kinds of communicable diseases
- Lack nutrition and are exposed to hunger
- Loose their right to property
- Lack love, care, and attention
- Experience stigma and discrimination
- Experience exploitatation (Labour and sexual exploitation and other kinds of abuses)
Target Population
The target population are the orphans and vulnerable children who have proven beyond any reasonable doubt that they have no one to take care of them. The home is not discriminatory and so it does not matter the religious, Political, Tribal, Socio-Economic background or where ever the fellow is coming from. In fact, our concentration is on all Children who need support. Children need to grow up in nurturing and enabling environment to develop their full potential. Society will pay high price for the neglect of their psychological stability.
Another target population is children of people with disability who are supported by the home in terms of feeding, Education and healthcare
Selection Criteria
Of these vast number of children made vulnerable and orphans by AIDS and other factors, the selection criteria are based on the response of our voluntary field staff who would report to us about an identified orphan or a vulnerable child. They conduct their own independent search unofficially to establish the fact that the said child has no help. After that we also follow up to cross examine the report of the voluntary field staff and if confirmed, then the child is selected. The criteria are as follows:
- The child should be an orphan – both parents dead either through HIV, AIDS, accident or any strange death.
- The child should be vulnerable – even though one parent may be alive but incapable of taking care of the child due to blindness, mentally retardation, Insane, or any other challenge.
- It should be established that there is no one to take care of the said child.
- A child from the remote village stand the chance of admission faster the one in the urban centre
- Abandoned children and confirmed by social welfare are also selected.
- The age limit is from 0 year to 15 years
Background Profile of Children and Parent
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Description of Type of Facility
The building is a double apartment self-contained house. We live in one and the children in the other. Their apartment is a three-bedroom house, with a common hall as the reception. The building has two toilet facilities, bathroom, a store room, kitchen, office and a large corridor for playing. The house has been walled with two iron gates. There is also a porch for relaxing. It is a partly painted and partly terrazzo. The facility is value at 530,000,000 which is part of the couple’s initial fixed asset contribution to the children home.
Type of Service and Intervention by the Children Home
As a policy, the home provides full support for the children. The Children Home serves as a place of protection for the orphans and the vulnerable children who otherwise for no fault of theirs have no one to take care of them and their education. Hence the need for total care.
Service provided include the following:
- Enrolling them in school and providing uniforms, stationary, fees and pocket money.
- Taking care of their health
- Provision of shelter
- Provision of food, at least three-square meals everyday
- Guidance and counselling
- Support and care for non-residential children
- Provide opportunities for development of talent and skills
- Payment of bills.
However, after the basic education the children could be sent back to their original homes a cost sharing base but not achieved.
Achievements
All the children are enrolled in schools and they have all progress into their respective next academic classes. Upon their arrival most of them where malnourished. As at now their physical appearance indicate growing and plumy children. They were all sent to the laboratories to test their health status including HIV, AIDS. They take at least three-square meals a day with pocket money for school. They are also provided with clothing’s including school uniforms, tables and chairs for learning. Exercise books, text books, pens and pencils, etc.
Life Transformation of Beneficiaries
Their reasoning capacity has improved. They are sociable, accommodating and see themselves as family. Most of them could not even use the W/C when they first arrived but now, they can. Some of them are able to wash their cloths and that of the young ones since we stay together as a family. Others also do join us to prepare meals for the entire family. They turn to ask so many questions on issues they do not understand. All these were things they could not do when they were first brought into the Children’s home.
Most of the children are now Basic, Secondary Schools and Universities graduates.
Problem Statement
Ghana’s children report 2000 notice that poverty remains one of the greatest challenges in preventing the enjoyment of basic human right, security and well bringing of the Ghanaian child. The rapidly increasing of population of Ghana coupled with the low resource base put significant pressure on the delivery of basic social services, particularly for children.
It is in this regard that FRANKMAY NEW LIFE FOUNDATION (FNLF) is stretching its hand of mercy to outreach the orphans and the vulnerable who are relegated to the background due to their peculiar circumstances.
In many homes in Ghana, to lose all parents is considered a spell on the said child or children especially if it is through strange circumstances. The fear is that the evil that fell on their biological parents could as well happen to them if they take care of those children. Even though the argument is invalid but it is difficult to change the perception of people within the short term. Hence the children are left under the mercy of the wind and the sun.
The argument of extended relation in Ghana is quite true and the fact that we support in the social ladder either upwards and downwards is also a fact. However, it is also a fact that Ghana and for that matter Africa remain the poorest continent where many people earn less than a dollar a day. In this situation, it is difficult to take care of someone even if you have the good intention to do so. These challenging arguments brought FRANKMAY NEW LIFE FOUNDATION into being.
Challenges
However, even though we are making strives, we are also be-devilled with a lot of challenges. Our current site is a three-bedroom house which is accommodating close to 30 people. The situation is very alarming especially in the outbreak of disease. We are therefore soliciting for funds to purchase about 20 building plot that will cost us about (5 billion) or (50,000) including documentation. Since it is all coming from our personal savings; SEE PROPOSED OPERATIONAL COST
The vision of the home was to take care of these children until they are self-sustaining. It was envisaged that after the Children have completed their basic education that is from pre-school to JHS, they will be sent back to their original homes to continue their education on a cost sharing bases. However, the extended family fail to honour these arrangements. Hence, the home has been compelled to take the added responsibility of educating the children beyond JHS. We surely need funds to support the children at that stage
What is being done to mitigate the Challenges
Since the most of the funding is from our personal ACCOUNT, we are applying to like-minded institutions and organizations to assist us with funding to improve upon the quality of our service. We have also started appealing to churches, mosque, the district assemblies and individuals to come to our aid. Even though there has not been any immediate response yet we hope they could respond at the appropriate time.
Future Plans
Frankmay New Life Foundation
a non-profit making organisation established in 2007 and incorporated under the company’s code 1963 (Act 179) on 21st may 2007…
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Techiman Kurokesse
Ghana P.O.Box 3554 - +233 257 456 3456
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