Lifelong Initiative Network for Gbawe Communiy, Ghana
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PAAJAF in collaboration with local and international microfinance institutions offers business education seminars and initial working capital to people from Gbawe Community and its environs. Fostering the spirit of entrepreneurship and making microfunding accessible easily provides them a decisive chance to improve their living standards and contributes to poverty alleviation in the Community.
About You
About You
First Name
Philip
Last Name
Appiah
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About Your Organization
Organization Name
PAAJAF Foundation
Organization Website
Organization Country
Ghana, GA
Country where this project is creating social impact
Ghana, GA
Age of Innovator
18-34
Gender of Innovator
Male
Is your organization a
Non‐profit/NGO/citizen sector organization
How long has your organization been operating?
1‐5 years
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Innovation
Name Your Entry
Lifelong Initiative Network for Gbawe Communiy, Ghana
Select the stage that best applies to your solution
Start-Up (a pilot that has just begun operating)
How long have you been in operation?
Operating for 1‐5 years
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
The Community of Gbawe is plagued with widespread poverty and illiteracy. As a result of low income levels quality health and quality education cannot be afforded by majority of the inhabitants. If the vision of improving the living standards of the people is to be realized then business management ideas and the spirit of entrepreneurship and provision of micro funding must be accessible to the people with ease.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Lifelong Initiative Network (LIN)- ID Ghana under the auspices of the PAAJAF Foundation has launched this initiative that will lead to vast improvements in the lives of the underprivileged and poor people in the Gbawe Community. In which sustainable education and welfare projects, micro loans are accessible to the networkers.
The LIN works to provide its networkers with micro-enterprise and microfinance:
•Giving Products (In-Kind Items – clothing, shoes, and other small household items) as loan to the networkers to trade in.
•Cash Loan : loan to the networkers by ID Ghana:
•Literacy Education
Each LIN member attends a weekly literacy education. The educational activities are done in a “study circles” where an appointed supervisor gives an introduction to the basics of entrepreneurship etc.
In order to effectively carry out LIN initiative, and reach out to our target group with education and welfare projects and micro loans. PAAJAF Foundation seeking for collaborations.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
EPAAJAF in collaboration with local and international Micro-finance funding organizations is offering business education seminars and the provision of initial working capital to people from Gbawe Community and its environs, who are prepared to undergo training in business management and be funded to do something for themselves. PAAJAF creates a platform to offer education through seminars on business running and funding. Besides the organizational collaboration, PAAJAF is inviting willing donors to assist with funds in this direction.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
PAAJAF would like to underline the fact that the Lifelong Initiative Network (LIN) model would be good for Gbawe, as it is simple and straightforward and treats all participants equally. In addition, no organization in Gbawe Community offering such charitable service to the poor women and underprivileged people in the community. LIN creates job opportunities for particular individuals at particular times, while securing access to the necessary capital for this individual.
Social Impact
This Entry is about (Issues)
What solution(s) does your initiative address to help emerging entrepreneurs and small businesses grow and thrive in underserved communities? (select all applicable)
Access to financing, Access to talent, Access to supply chains, Access to economic opportunity.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
LIN is in its initial stage that members are attending a weekly literacy education. The educational activities are done in a “study circles” where an appointed supervisor gives an introduction to the basics of entrepreneurship, granting the potential LIN members the correct understanding of the nature of debt, financial obligation, financial planning, reading and writing, business mathematics and other social and economic issues. And it is adding values into the lives of its networkers by giving them assurance that household conflicts and fears will be reduced and as a result unemployment will be lessened and more jobs will be created, while a sense of community belonging and a more intolerant stance towards crime and the misuse of resources will be developed. The program partners Initiative Development – ID Ghana, will give loans to the networkers to get something doing.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
It is expected that by the end of the first year of the project, fund has been raised to sponsor individual needy children until the scholarship school project of becomes a reality through the micro-enterprise – the products loan to the networkers. Eg. 50 children per year.
500 youth and women have received goods loan and at least 500 cash loans have also been granted.
From one to three year time LIN has at least 1000 group members .
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone
Task 1
Shipping located and donated goods from USA and Canada to PAAJAF
Task 2
Get donors to help on the LIN administrational cost, writing for grants, fundraising
Task 3
Rent a shop for a thrift store
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone
Task 1
Setting more groups to reach out with this charitable services to the poor women and the other underprivileged people
Task 2
Extablishing partnership with local and international organisations
Task 3
Get donors to help on the LIN administrational cost, writing for grants, fundraising
Founding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
Due to the situation of the Gbawe Community, plaguing with widespread poverty and illiteracy, as a result of low income levels quality health and quality education cannot be afforded by majority of the inhabitants and if the vision of improving the living standards of the people is to be realized then business management ideas and the spirit of entrepreneurship and provision of micro funding must be accessible to the people with ease.
In view of this,our singular objective today is to make life worth living for the economically weak individuals and families in the Gbawe Community and its environment. Interested parties could be directly or indirectly involved in the above described program by:•assisting with funds, $20, $50, $70 etc. can help fund somebody.Again $30, $60, $70 and $100 etc. can also create a working capital for a needy person to do better in life. Similarly, $10, $40, and $80 etc. can help and also bring a business smile to someone in need of a capital to start work
Sustainability
Tell us about your partnerships
Cuurently PAAJAF is in partnership with Initiative Development - ID Ghana, ID Ghana is a financial NGO in Ghana. So in view of this project, they would be giving loans to the networks - micro loans while PAAJAF would see to the micro-enterprise and using PAAJAF as platform to support the poor people at Gbawe with financial services.
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| LIN Literacy Education Class | 1018.89 KB |
| Facilitator doing business calculation | 1012.91 KB |
| Some of the networkers in Literacy Education Class | 1005.14 KB |
| LIN Group Image | 998.79 KB |
| Facilitator explaining things to the group members | 990.76 KB |
| LIN Members | 1005.37 KB |
| LIN Members | 1.01 MB |
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| LIN Members | 1005.37 KB |
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| 48 weeks ago Philip Appiah submitted this idea. |
