Girl Pupils Telling the Kajelo Story
The KYTE Centre is going to increase the number of girls in Kajelo who are confident in their ICT and life skills.
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A propos de votre organisation
Nom
BoldSteps Foundation
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Pays
Ghana, UE
Pays dans lesquels ce projet crée un impact social
Ghana, UE
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organisation à but non lucratif
Depuis combien de temps votre organisation opère-t-elle ?
1‐5 années
Votre organisation a-t-elle reçu des récompenses ou des prix ? Si oui, indiquez-nous lesquels.
Yes.
We received a citation from the District Assembly in 2009 for Women's empowerment activities through ICT and radio
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Girl Pupils Telling the Kajelo Story
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Création (un pilote qui vient juste de démarrer)
Depuis combien de temps le projet existe-t-il ?
En place depuis 1 à 5 ans
Le besoin : quel problème tentez-vous de résoudre ?
Kajelo is a rural area with almost a hundred teenagers completing basic school every year. Fresh out of school, immersed into community where opportunities to learn life skills are almost absent, hundreds of girls never get to continue their education mainly because there is no source of information to guide them ahead or even on critical life skills decisions. Specifically, the community has no source of literature or productive recreation
La solution: quelle solution proposez-vous ? Soyez précis !
We will create a pool of role models and source of motivation for girls in Kajelo.
We want to find ways to keep girls and other basic school leavers continuing to read even while they wait to take the next step.
We will augment the two computers we have at our youth centre and this time provide FREE training to 50 selected girls
The four female nurses and teachers will continue to mentor the young girls years after the end of the project these girls will act directly as a source of motivation to others for at least a decade after today.
Le système : décrivez un exemple spécifique montrant de quelle façon votre initiative fonctionne ; indiquez vos principales activités.
In October 2010, Monica (real name and person, different from the author) came to the centre library to wild away time. She completed Secondary school since 2004, with not so good results and has been unproductive at home all this while. With very little opportunity to improve her results and climb up the academic ladder, her only hope at the time was to travel to a bigger city and try to make a meaning to life. An earlier attempt had ended in failure.
She met Mdm Comfort, a nurse who acts as a resource person to the Peer Educators group. Through the encouragement of Madam comfort, she became a Peer Educator and learnt more about academic opportunities. Today she is in the first year of the Community Health Nurses college.
The existence of the centre proved in this case not only as a magnet to young people to exchange ideas but also a place for them to build their skills
Le marché : qui sont vos collègues et vos concurrents ? Identifiez les autres personnes qui travaillent à répondre au même besoin et indiquez ce qui vous différencie d'elles. Comment ces concurrents pourraient-ils influencer votre réussite ou votre croissance ?
In the line of the objectives of the Youth centre, there are no real competitors. We have the district assembly, the Ghana AIDS Commission, the Gia Nabio Agroforestry and Development Organisation and a few other organisations and youth groups in the same community who work to address similar challenges but they all complement our work. Oftentimes they actually fund us to execute projects on their behalf.
What differentiates us from the above mentioned players is that we are on the ground with very little running cost. This allows us to make the maximum impact even if it in a limited geographical area. We can zoom down to individuals and make individual lives shine.
Impact social
This Entry is about (Issues)
Quelle(s) solution(s) votre projet propose-t-il pour améliorer la vie des femmes et des jeunes filles en recourant aux technologies ? (plusieurs réponses possibles)
Accès à la technologie, Accès à l'éducation/la formation, Accès aux opportunités économiques.
Jusqu'à ce jour, quels résultats a obtenu votre projet ?
Scores of girls have had something worthwhile to engage themselves. Now, they are either rehearsing for their next amateur movie, or they are in the centre's library or they are counselling their peers on HIV and other STDs. Hitherto, they would have been idling and they (and their peers) had less knowledge on sexual behaviour beyond taboos and beliefs. They have also witnessed first hand, especially from the amateur movies, that they can easily generate an income and get better known in the community and surrounding ones. This is besides the confidence they gain from thee experience
Quelles sont vos prévisions en termes d'impact au cours des trois prochaines années?
Over the next 3 years we would have succeeded in building the confidence of scores of young girls in and around Kajelo.
We would have helped to open up opportunities through the knowledge sharing platforms that we create.
We would have built the general ICT literacy levels in the community and the accompanying appreciation of general issues.
Les meilleures propositions possèdent un programme solide détaillant leurs prévisions pour atteindre et suivre leurs objectifs de croissance. Identifiez vos objectifs à 6 mois pour accroître vos résultats
By the end of the first six months we would have trained a minimum of 50 girls to be proficient users of computers
Définissez les trois tâches principales à accomplir pour atteindre ces objectifs à six mois
Tâche 1
Select and compile list of ICT Training beneficiaries
Tâche 2
Acquire computers and start training
Tâche 3
Compile and make available the successes of the project
Et maintenant, voyez les choses en plus grand ! Identifiez vos objectifs à 12 mois
Définissez les trois tâches principales à accomplir pour atteindre vos objectifs à 12 mois
Tâche 1
Selected girls from the first batch of 50 will be able to source information from the Internet and make it available
Tâche 2
Total number of girls trained will reach 150
Tâche 3
Young people will be able to communicate their ideas to the world and especially about what they do at the KYTE Centre
Création de l'organisation : nous voulons tout savoir sur votre déclic. Expliquez-nous oú et quand les fondateurs se sont rendu compte que cette solution possédait un véritable potentiel pour changer le monde.
After a food crises in 2006, the centre that was used for food distribution was left unutilised and occupied by squatters. It was also a favourite get away-place for reading by the author during holidays. The author was then a student at the Bolgatanga Polytechnic where she was studying HND Accounting.
One day, due to incoveniences at home, she decided to meet with a younger student at the building for study discussions. In the coming days, there used the building more often for such discussions. Then, out of the blue, one of them made a comment in passing, "We have to properly equip this library of ours with better seating".
They idea was discussed with some youth leaders in the community and before long there was money available to renovate the building, acquire basic furniture. We got books, most were donated and some we purchased from funds recieved, and today it is a multipurpose youth centre.
Viabilité
Quels sont vos différents partenariats ?
Our initial and biggest support to start the centre came from the BoldSteps Foundation. Through them we have access to the Dutch NGO, IICD, to the Ghana AIDS commission and to the District assembly.
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