ACWA
African Child Welfare Association - Humanitarian Projects / Projets Humanitaires - Association pour le Bien-être des Enfants Africains
Jeudi 20 janvier 2011 à 21:23
- soap
- diapers
- underwear
- towels and rags
- a mop and broom
- antibacterial cremes
- nutrition formulas for babies
- buckets for bathing and a baby-bathtub
- cookies for the kids to celebrate, plus Laughing Cow cheese was donated by Mrs. Gladys Opoku.
The staff sends their thanks to all who gave, and I still get humungous smiles every time I go back to visit!
December 13th, 2009
Samedi 2 octobre 2010 à 14:39
In exactly two weeks, the water project was finished! there is now clean and constant water running throught the pipes at the children's hospital, serving the maternity ward, the laboratory, the malnutrition rehabilitaion centre and the children's building.
Thank you to all, continue to support us!
These are pictures of the commissioning ceremony which was held, first there were a series of speeches, then I (Rainbow) was given the honor of cutting the ribbon before officially switching on the pump!
Samedi 2 octobre 2010 à 13:57
We told the people and some engineers about this project andt told them ce could fund it, and a few days later they came in with a drilling machine to start the work! ...
My parents, Karen and Gerard Planche, have paid for the entire project, so that it could be done while I was here to see it. Right now the engineer and electrician in charge of the project have taken the water to a laboratory to test for cleanliness. It is almost finished! The commissioning will be tomorrow and I will take some pictures there.
November 20, 2009
Samedi 2 octobre 2010 à 13:54
The Maternal and Child Health Hospital does not receive any extra funds for their rapidly decaying building (which was built in 1924 by the colonial forces). This branch of the main hospital is forgotten and left to thirst by the government, which has just implemented a system of National Health Care. The consequence is that the patients come in many numbers, and the hospital can no longer receive funds from private payments.
So what they need is funds to build infrastructure, a generator for a reliable electricity system, but more importantly water. They rely on old donated water tanks, currently rusted; they get their water from Ghana’s public water system, which supplies them once per week and often leaves shortages. I was told a gruesome story about doctors who were bringing a child to the world, and ran to the sink with bloody arms and … did not have water. The children whose condition requires them to be washed can often not be done quickly or with the quality water needed, sometimes worsening their sickness! It’s one of those things that we have only heard of on TV or reportages… it is so different and overwhelming to realize it is real.
Samedi 2 octobre 2010 à 13:45
I put a picture of this little girl sleeping on the floor, since that is the first thing that shocked me - the children spend most of their time on this little protected patio : eating, crawling around and, well, going to the bathroom if a bucket is not found fast enough. The caretakers manage to sweep the place if it gets too dirty, but by then many kids have already picked up things laying on the floor to chew on them.
November 3, 2009
They have one TV, and the children watch whatever's on, which is sometimes the news, and other times not-so-edifying stuff. In the picture above, you can see them dancing to the music channel and teaching the younger kids how to dance. From where I'm sitting, everyone else is clapping along and watching them, smiling.
Everyone shares everything here, and it is closer to a "children's home" as they call it, or a big family than an orphanage. As you can see at the bottom of the picture, the children learn as early as 4 how to feed the younger ones. It gives the older children something to do, and they develop really close relationships with one another.
November 4, 2009