What We Do
How we work
OLAF provides help to children and help them work on their own dreams to create better chances for themselves and be positive images in the world. Base on the cultural challenges in the rural communities we provide assistance and access to quality education, good healthcare and hygiene. Your support helps us provide educational materials to children and youths, quality healthcare to the aged, a better hygiene to people and hope.
Projects
Sanitary Pad
Menstrual Practices, Hygiene & Behaviors for Girls in Poor Communities.
Hygiene and sanitation are issues that have long been overlooked by Governments in developing
countries. However, as a result of sustained advocacy efforts, they are at the very top of the global and national agenda today.
This project examines menstruation and menstrual hygiene management among girls in basic schools and poor communities. Perspectives range from women’s inability to exercise their rights and access services due to the silence and stigma that surround menstruation, to poor menstrual hygiene practices and waste management. Indeed, almost half of the respondents indicated
that they rarely attended school while menstruating.
Every Child in School - ECIS
We encourage quality education as referred in the UN Global Goal 4.
With the rising challenges in economies, funding for educational materials especially in developing countries is growing increasingly scarce. Many children from poor homes stay out of the class room just because they could not get educational materials. Our research showed that about 2 out of every 5 children stay out of the classroom due to lack of educational materials.
Every Child in School Project is geared towards donating note books, exercise books, pens, pencils, chalks, dustbins and sandals to needy rural community based schools.
400+ students were given educational materials and teachers were equipped with teaching materials under the ECIS project.
Free Health Screening
Quality Healthcare, Enabling Livelihood.
A healthy life is a productive life and quality health care is a necessity in the life of every individual, regardless of age, social status, educational background or economic status. We visited the Osabene/Kentenkren community in Koforidua in the Eastern region of Ghana and provided a free health screening to the general public with counselling to help them know their health status and make informed decisions as well as treatment for some ailment that could be handled at the center.
Doctors, physician assistants and nurses deployed from the St. Joseph Hospital in Koforidua took the school children and people in the community through various screenings which included: Blood pressure, body mass index, eye, weight, Height, Hepatitis B, and HIV/AIDS etc. Over 350 community member benefited from our free health screen program.
Hand Hygiene
Hand washing practices, facilities and campaigns in public schools.
Our hand hygiene project aims at helping to reduce the spread of communicable diseases by at least 20%. Most schools selected for this project are rural public schools who are considered poor by the Social welfare and ministry of health. Some of these communities drink from streams and stored up rain water without proper covering and treatment of the water. Our staff and volunteers educated the community members on the dangers of drinking such water and at least boiling and sieving the water before drinking. This however was an immediate intervention prior to taking resource persons to talk on personal hygiene and water sanitation.
Over 700 children from three schools benefited from the project.
2 hours to read
Improving a child’s imagination and their resourcefulness through reading.
2 hours to read (2-To-Read) is designed to expedite the reading and writing ability in school children. In our pursuit to reduce the rate of illiteracy among our growing generation especially in the rural communities of koforidua and Ghana at large, we decided to designed a teaching and learning curriculum that will aid our two hours’ time with them so that these children will not only effectively benefit from our algorithms but can also be at par with other children in the urban schools and communities in terms of having a good reading, writing and communication skills and abilities.
The project is aimed at exercising and strengthening the brain of children as well as improving their level of concentration. It is also aimed at motivating children to read by giving awards to those who make the effort to answer questions.