Building the Path of Hope Girl's Community Center and School!

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My goal is to get these girls before they end up in bad situations or rescue them from these situations and give them a safe place to live and learn. If girls are given knowledge and skills they will be looked upon as a valuable human being with great potential! Changing cultural ideas is a slow process, but showing the society what these girls can accomplish and what great potentials they have may be a start to the families and tribes seeing them as a valuable member.

We are looking to build and start a women's center in Northern Ghana where outcast and previously owned women and girls can safely live in community and learn important skills. Not only will they learn life skills, they will learn money making skills such as sewing and soap making and they will learn how to run their own small business which is so very valuable in their society!

We have tried this approach in Burkina Faso, West Africa and are having great success. We tailored the program to meet the needs and societal norms we witnessed and researched. Not only have we gotten girls off the streets into safe living conditions, we have graduated girls with skills who have begun their own business and are building a better life for themselves. We now have a waiting list and demand from families who want their daughters to be allowed to enroll in our two year program!

Our approach in Ghana will need to be tailored to the societal views and ways they do things locally, but we believe we could have great success in the region with this project and hopefully change many lives and also the views of the worth of girls on a greater scale in Ghanaian society! That is our dream!