ABOUT WHO WE ARE

CRYSTAL HOPE FOUNDATION is a non-profit making organization operating in Ghana. The organization is registered with the Registrar General Department and the department of social welfare with the registered numbers, G11595 and D.S.W 2087 respectively. As an organization our main vision is to help the less privileged and vulnerable children and youth living in the city’s slums and rural areas in the country. We do this mainly by supporting these children through education and imparting technical and vocational skills to them as well.
We unreservedly and determinedly are committed into breaking, lifting these children and youth from the poverty cycle and placing them on a platform leading to boosting their confidence in facing their future.
Crystal hope foundation believes strongly that the prospective, eminent and prominent leaders needed to make positive influence on society are and can be found among these people who have been shadowed by poverty and thereby negatively affecting them emotionally, psychologically and physically.
As a result of this, we are deeply interested in their holistic development and as such we run activities leading to the attainment of this objective.
In short we are a family and we treat them as family members.

HOW WE HELP THESE VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND DISADVANTAGED YOUTH.

1. We Provide them with learning materials such as reading materials, exercise books, pencils and pens etc.
2. Second-hand dresses such as shirt, trousers, shoes etc.
3. Feeding once daily depending on the child’s situation.
4. Assist them to access healthcare.
5. Pay their school fees.
6. Give or offer them counseling and guidance.
7. Provide them with Football kits such as jersey, boots etc.

OUR LEGAL STATUS AND RECOGNISATION

We are Registered with:

1. Registrar Generals Department in Ghana and as guaranteed by liability (Registration No. G11595)
2. Accra Metropolitan Authority (Registration No. G11595)
3. Department of Social Welfare (Registration No D.S.W 2087)
4. Registered with Ghana NGOs Coalition on the right  of the child
5. Registered member of Coalition of Health NGOs in Ghana
6. Registered member of S.D.G; belonging to Goal 1&8

Member of:

1. Coalition of NGO for Child’s right.
2. Coalition of NGO for Health
3. Global Unification of NGO (yet to feel form and submit).

VISION

Our main Vision is to help the less privilege and vulnerable children and youth discover their God-given identity. Where God-Given identity to us means; knowing God, gaining reasonable education and becoming economically independent.

MISSION

We are poised and in action to liberate the brilliant but needy child, youth as well as the vulnerable, disadvantaged youth from the poverty cycle to place them on a platform, making it easier for them to realize and utilize their God-given talent, through formal education and impartation of skills being it technical, vocational or any legitimate means.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

• Assistance to needy but brilliant children and youth to continue their education.
• Capacity building to less privilege youth.
• Women and children development/Empowerment.
• Health promotion among the less privileged youth.
• Promotion of human right among the less privileged youth.
• Rural and community development.
• Helping to equip tertiary institution with scientific equipment to make learning easy and friendly.
• Helping to pull resource together to put infrastructure and practical rooms in tertiary institution.

WHAT WE DO

1. Sponsor brilliant but needy children and youth in slums in the cities and rural areas to school.
2. We economically empower parents in disadvantaged situations so we can take care of their wards.
3. Give technical or vocational training to the disadvantage and vulnerable youth to enhance or raise their economic standard.
4. Organize health screening for less privilege and educate them on topical health issues.
5. Organize carrier guidance program in Junior and Senior High schools.
6. Organize motivational talk for both the privilege and the less privilege children and youth.
7. Organize educative entertaining program to bring the less privilege children and privilege together for them to learn and have fun and break down inferiority complex which can inhibit their potential.
8. Organize sporting activities to mobilize the targeted children and youth together.
9. Initiate and support developmental projects in impoverish communities.
10. Advocate on the right of the less privilege children and youth.
11. Organize cultural activities program for communities’ cohesion and unearthing talents.
12. Drama show by the children in places like church, Theater and others.
13. Organize excursion and exchange program me for these children and youth to enhance their exposure.
14. Above all  we share and give the unique love of Jesus Christ with these family members.

OUR APPROACH

1. Locate a slum or rural area.
2. Register  our presence there through the communities’ elders.
3. Start visiting relatives of neglected children or needy youth.
4. Scrutinize them  using questionnaires to ascertain the reality of their situation.
5. Qualified children or youth are shortlisted for further consideration and categorization of their needs.
6. In the case of vulnerable children who have never been to school at all, even nursery, we established pre-school system where they are taught basic arithmetic and English.
7. When these children start picking up in their learning process they are transferred  to the main stream education with continuous support to them.
8. We constantly keep in touch with them, monitoring their development; psychologically, behaviorally and academically.
9. Some of these children and youth do not enjoy or know the good side in life except   poverty and its bitterness. Therefore we organize different entertainment and educative activities and ensure that they participate to make them have a sense of belonging.
10. But for the disadvantage youth and those who  have now  become parents we place much emphasis on them getting a job or acquiring a skill.
11. Therefore we go to the  breath and length to collaborate with other vocational or technical institution to enroll them in for a period of a year or two at the end of which we believe they acquire the necessary skills to be used to earn a living.
12. After completion, we see how best to make it possible for them to engage in a job and gradually be at the position to take over parental responsibility.
13. We engage the  social media  to create awareness of serious and challenging issues affecting these children and youth. Also the group play a roll  in advocating for effective policy that can help and those one not helping to be review.
14. We get in touch with relevant government agencies to help these vulnerable children in the society.

For community development, we solicit or welcome resources and involve the community to benefit from project implementation

OUR CURRENT CHALLENGIES

1. Lack of funds to pay for structures we use to accommodate the children.
2. Lack of funds to pay for services rendered by the staff.
3. Lack of enough learning materials such as reading books, pencils, pens, uniforms.
4. Lack of enough tables and desks for the children to sit on.
5. Lack of football kits and jersey
   And many others.

GETTING INVOLVED TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

1. One can make a donation to support; financially ,and also In terms of dresses shoes, learning materials etc.
2. Select or choose a child to sponsor his or her education.
3. Volunteer to come to our project site and contribute in ways you can.
4. An organization can join us to implement a project on our waiting list.
5. Do not hesitate to call or e-mail us to find out how you feel you can contribute to our progress.