Primary Education in Ghana

PAAJAF Foundation appreciates your generosity toward our scholarship school education in Ghana at the Gbawe community - PAAJAF Educational Institute (PEI) which we have it at GlobalGiving as “Help Support a School for Children in Ghana”

The goal of this project is to raise $ 15,440 of which we have now raised $13,341 leaving a balance of $2,099 to go.

What has this fund raised done so far?

Philip Appiah-Kyei, founder of PAAJAF (Providing Adults and Adolescents With Jobs for Advancement for the Future), after surveyed a backward and impoverished community, Gbawe, near the capital city of Accra in Ghana, where families lived within paltry means and children did not go to school, not because they did not want to, but because they could not afford to. Parents of these children knew that the best way to get ahead for themselves as well as their children was a better education. And, yet, many of these adults were petty traders, making meager wages of $2 to $4, supporting not only their immediate families, but in some cases, extended families and community members who did not have families of their own. Another major issue was though Gbawe had a population of 44,000, there was only one school in the town resulting in overcrowding and anything but individual attention.

With the assistance of some sponsors and your generous donations, PAAJAF Educational Institute (PEI) was created to provide quality education within classrooms. The Institute provides schooling for children from the age 1 to 15 and helps children grow to their full potential by ensuring that they receive guidance to acquire better skill sets to have the ability to get better jobs than their parents and sustain themselves, all the while giving them the capability to achieve their dreams. Some of the fund were used to hire classrooms, purchase reference books, tables and chairs, stationery and teachers salaries. At this moment, from your generous gift, PAAJAF is providing scholarship school education to 120 students. But the unfortunate case is that, we have run out of fund and we urgently in need  amount of $9,000 to help us maintain our classrooms and to pay our teachers and find partners.

Our project here, we left with $2,099 to go, to reach our goal set and also continue to provide scholarship and quality education to poor children here at Gbawe in Ghana.

As Christmas has arrived to our lives again. It is flooding all our lives’ spaces, from at home to streets. Even at school or university, we are catching information and seeing objects which show us its arrival. All children, in case they have had a good behavior during year, are nervous and lively because they are going to receive the presents that they wish.

This is the essence of Christmas: the happiness. A happiness which embraces anybody, and allows each person's personal construction year after year, because it is not only development due to belonging of toys with meanings of respect, equality or the fact of sharing, it's also the meeting with family as well as with people who live far away, and also the humanity.

However, in countless countries around the world, there are children who, on account of lack of budget, poverty, few aids, lacking jobs and distance of towns with toy shops or other kinds of them, don't receive any toy, any book, even any little gift.

For this reason, from PAAJAF, we want to show to all of you, also to remind you our mission in Gbawe (Ghana). You help these poor children at Gbawe in Ghana to received good education? Please do you have any question about our project?

Thank you

Dear friends of PAAJAF,

A very warm welcome from the PAAJAF Educational Institute (PEI) and PAAJAF Foundation!  We are so proud God has ushered us into the new 2016-2017 school year, which starts this month of September 2016.

It is a great privilege to be the Head teacher of such a thriving school community where high aspirations and a caring family ethos are at the heart of what we do.

Excellent leadership at all levels promotes high expectations of pupils and staff, and this enables pupils to excel in all that they do.

We are in the first term of the new school year and this is an exciting time for our school following yet another year of exceptional achievements.

A Head teacher provides inspirational, high-quality leadership. I am here with our staff to ensure that the good standards of the school’s previous inspection have improved. The school’s ethos is for everyone to learn and to be the best they can be.

As our school vision, we want our pupils to achieve both high academic standards and personal goals in all of their endeavors, such as in sport, music or leadership skills, by building an educational centre in our community so that our children may go to school! We are creating a scholarship school for our children because of the limited public education available in our community. In addition to schooling, we provide our students with all of their needs including books, uniforms, school supplies and a nutritious meal twice a day.

“Working happily together inspiring a desire to learn” underpins all that we do and reflects the beliefs of the pupils, staff and governors here at our school. Collectively, we support our pupils’ aspirations and give them the skills and learning experiences to achieve them.

We welcome any visits to the school from prospective parents, donors and volunteers, so please feel free to contact us or to drop in and meet us! We hope our website as link to our project will provide you with further information about the school and our enthusiasm and philosophy for learning. If you need any further information, you can also contact us since we are happy here to answer all concerns.

We are fortunate to receive tremendous support from our supporters – UN Volunteers, GlobalGiving, MacEwan University Global Education Fund, Linino Organisation, Worldreader and The Church of Our Saviour and you our potential donor. The home-school partnership is one of exceptional importance to us as we firmly believe that this is the key to ensuring successful learning for our children here.

PEI has started the new school year with our 103 children in the school as at the close of the 2015 – 2016 school year- which ended on August 4, 2016. The problem PEI is facing at the moment is the lack of space to accommodate new students who have applied.  Also the PEI rented venue for the school expires on October 31, 2016 of which there is no fund to renew the contract.  We would like to appeal to you, if you could support us once again.  We need $8,000 to maintain the current venue. Would you please also help by forwarding this to your friends who you think can help for us? We really need your help and we will appreciate any way you can help us once again on this project. On September 21, GlobalGiving is running again a bonus day of which your donation to this project will be matched.  Kindly please read more about it at GG BONUS DAY.

On arrival at PEI, you immediately notice the excellent learning behaviour of our pupils and the passion, enthusiasm and friendliness of our staff. We believe that your children’s’ journey to learning is lifelong and we feel privileged that PEI School is where this very important journey begins.

Once again, thank you for your consideration.

Thank you