Artisan Training for 50 rural women in Ghana

Dear Friends,

Its  Women’s month and we at ABAN are celebrating our women. We are celebrating their hard work and commitment to overcome the hassles of life in other not to remain in poverty. We are also celebrating their journeys through the years in training.

We are featuring in this report Patricia.

Patricia joined the ABAN program in 2015 as a single mother with no skills and making a living on the money she made from selling oranges on head pans, just before ABAN transitioned to Ghana. She was part of 16 girls with similar stories, who were given the opportunities to learn a new skill of their choice with the hopes of being independent financially, and so that she can improve her standard of living and that of her son and family. For two years, she mastered the art of decorating and graduated last as a professional. She has also been very active in our business development programs, as she learns how to manage a shop by herself.

Her dream has been to own her own shop and train other women who are also less fortunate and because of you and the support of a student group, she is just about to realize that dream with a seed amount of 1600 pounds. In the next two months, we will be setting Patricia up with a fully furnished shop, giving her the head start she needs so she can be the @fabricofchange we have waited to see. After all, at ABAN, that’s what we do.

The girls could benefit from such investments . And so we ask that you continue to support us. Here are ways you can do that;

• Start a fund raiser
• Buy our products and recommend us to shops to carry ABAN products and conferences to let ABAN sew for them
• Sponsor a girl
• Tell your friends about ABAN
• Donate here

Follow our social media pages for more updates and sond us an email with your questions.

Let us continue to #pressforprogress as is the theme for this years International Women’s Day, for all women the world over.

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Dear Friend, 

Here is an update of our programs from where we left off last.

ABAN WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

Empowering our Partners to train our Women  

In the past few weeks, we have been actively involving our partners (Trainers) in practical discussions with the aim of sharing better ways of offering the training to our women. It became important that we ensure the women are placed into safe environment for batter training experiences from the feed backs we received from them

The process brought us closer to understand the challenges in the training system we have adopted for our beneficiaries and partners, and we have started the processes of ensuring that, all parties have the best experience and the families of the children become responsible and involved in the lives of the women.

Graduation

Three of the girls have graduated with the National Certificate Examination that accredits them to work as professionals in Hair dressing (Gladys Obuo), dress making (Victiria Ayebea Addo) and event decorators (Patricia Addo). All three are in the process of setting up and working for income with some trainers.

 Apprenticeship for new recruits

Four new young women have been identified to join the growing number of our beneficiaries begin their apprenticeship early from January 2018 in Hair dressing and dress making.   Updates of them will be shared in our next report 

ABAN CHILD SUPPORT

 We have supported up to 10 children with payment of the school bills for the year. These are children in government supported school from poor home backgrounds living with little or no support.  As we visited their schools, two schools shared with us several needs that is hindering the education of the children and which they don’t get support for; a request for library, books and other learning materials for the children and another request to support the Dumping School so that they can fix their play field. We started another campaign on Global giving to try and raise some funds to support them. Dumpong is the community where ABAN will hopefully have its office one day. Our support to the community over the years has made a lot of impact and we hope to do more with you support.

Here is a link to the page to donate or share.: http://goto.gg/30724 or you can continue to donate to this project

ACE

Our community employment (ABAN Community Employment) section that is responsible for the production of our ecofriendly bags, is currently accepting orders for bulk production which is what we are currently able to do for our Eropean customers. Talk to us on how to order by sending us an email.

You can visit our Facebook page to receive more updates on production and other updates on our programs.

We want to at this time thank you for your support throughout the year and to wish you a Merry Christmas.  We hope for the New Year to bring us many happy returns.

From all of us at ABAN  

Sincerely,

Doris Darkwah

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