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Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Friday, April 20, 2012
Can You Help With Donations For Our Next Booth?
WAF is gearing up for our next "Gifts For Good" booth at the North American Organic Brewer's Fest and seeking donations of items, art, crafts and products we can use to raise funds and draw people to our booth!
We would like to thank our newest donors Green Mountain Coffee! -- They rock! -- Green Mountain offers a range of Fair Trade & Organic Coffee. Please visit them and let them know you support World Action Foundation.
If you, or a business you work for, can help WAF with a donation please contact us on our Facebook page or e-mail us at : WorldActionFoundation@yahoo.com
If you, or a business you work for, can help WAF with a donation please contact us on our Facebook page or e-mail us at : WorldActionFoundation@yahoo.com
Monday, March 26, 2012
Visit us at The Spring Beer & Wine Fest in Portland!
World Action Foundation will be back in our booth at the fest again this year! Once again hosted by the festival's board and WAF's good friend Steve Woolard.
Each year WAF works hard to raise funds to support our plans, programs and assistance to at risk youth and young adults in Africa. In the past we have held raffles, etc.
The fest is easy to get to at the Convention Center and is right on the TriMet MAX line here in Portland....We Hope to see you there!
Sunday, March 25, 2012
2012 and WAF
The end of 2011 was an odd one for WAF as we learned of another organization that had just assumed the very same name for their organization incorporated in the State of California. It doesn't seem that they are a 501(c)3 however. Just to clear the air we are in no way associated with that organization.
Now we are in 2012 and the wheels are in motion for another year.
We are still shipping books and materials to blind & deaf schools in Africa. We have also been starting our work with street girls in Ghana.
Please "Follow" our blog page and also join our Facebook page to stay in touch!
Sunday, February 27, 2011
WAF's New Partnership with "Street Girl's Aid"
WAF is partnering with the "Street Girl's Aid" organization in Accra, Ghana and will begin fund raising and planning the first joint projects soon!
This organization operates a school, training center and a safe shelter for young street girls who are pregnant or have an infant.
They do some fantastic work and we are very excited to start working together.
Please stay tuned for more details!!
This organization operates a school, training center and a safe shelter for young street girls who are pregnant or have an infant.
They do some fantastic work and we are very excited to start working together.
Please stay tuned for more details!!
The Ghanaian Street Child
The Ghanaian Street Child:
Through the use of various “head-counts” S.Aid and its partners estimate that the city of Accra is home to over 25,000 street children. This number is increasing at a staggering pace. In 1999, when the first study was completed by the University of Ghana, there were only 5,000 street children. The street chil...d is defined as a person who is under the age of 18 who lives and works on the street and does not have any financial support. We are now seeing a growing population of second generation street children – children of street mothers who are born into street life.
Most street girls work long hours for a mere pittance. Girls will toil in the markets selling food or ice water and many serve as porters - carrying heavy loads on their heads that seem to defy the frailty of their neck. With the number of street children increasing every day, even these jobs are becoming increasingly scarce and as an unfortunate consequence, prostitution is becoming a main source of income for some street girls. At night, they mostly sleep in the open air, rain or shine, on small mats or cardboard. These children usually sleep in groups to protect and support each other.
Most have migrated from the rural north; however, street children come from every region of Ghana. Their reason for being on the street is mainly due to family breakdown (86%, culled from Ghanaian Street Child 2003 – a book written by Catholic Action for Street Children). Other reasons are related to poverty and lack of basic infrastructure in the rural areas, peer-pressure, and urbanization. Girls also may escape to a life on the streets in Accra to escape a forced marriage in their village. Girl’s as young as fourteen can be married to elderly men as an additional wife.
Many street children have never attended school or have left school at different stages of education. More than half have not completed primary school.
New children arrive in Accra each day only to become street children.
Through the use of various “head-counts” S.Aid and its partners estimate that the city of Accra is home to over 25,000 street children. This number is increasing at a staggering pace. In 1999, when the first study was completed by the University of Ghana, there were only 5,000 street children. The street chil...d is defined as a person who is under the age of 18 who lives and works on the street and does not have any financial support. We are now seeing a growing population of second generation street children – children of street mothers who are born into street life.
Most street girls work long hours for a mere pittance. Girls will toil in the markets selling food or ice water and many serve as porters - carrying heavy loads on their heads that seem to defy the frailty of their neck. With the number of street children increasing every day, even these jobs are becoming increasingly scarce and as an unfortunate consequence, prostitution is becoming a main source of income for some street girls. At night, they mostly sleep in the open air, rain or shine, on small mats or cardboard. These children usually sleep in groups to protect and support each other.
Most have migrated from the rural north; however, street children come from every region of Ghana. Their reason for being on the street is mainly due to family breakdown (86%, culled from Ghanaian Street Child 2003 – a book written by Catholic Action for Street Children). Other reasons are related to poverty and lack of basic infrastructure in the rural areas, peer-pressure, and urbanization. Girls also may escape to a life on the streets in Accra to escape a forced marriage in their village. Girl’s as young as fourteen can be married to elderly men as an additional wife.
Many street children have never attended school or have left school at different stages of education. More than half have not completed primary school.
New children arrive in Accra each day only to become street children.
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