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The Girls junior High School and Computer Lab. Funded by Blessing Basket Project-USA.
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MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS
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Girl child and female education.
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Income generating activities (basket, soap, crop and livestock
farming).
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Under Activity 1 and 2 above, Nyariga Doone Women have made modest
achievements and single handedly established and constructed classrooms
for the only sole Girls Primary and Junior High Schools in Nyariga
Doone in 1998 and 2004 respectively that are currently managed by
Ghana Education Service.
Nyariga Doone Girls School is the first and only Public Basic Girls
School in Bolgatanga Municipality.
Under activity 2, we have established and constructed a single room
craft centre and trained over 100 women and youth on standard straw
basket production for export to United States of America and Japan
and local markets. The group has gone further to include soap making
and has trained about 80 women and men with technical support from
NBSSI (National Board for Small Scale Industries).
COLLABORATIVE ACHIEVEMENTS
Under the objectives, the association has made some modest achievements:
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The Association successfully established the only and first ever
Girls Primary School in Nyariga-Doone a suburb of the Bolgatanga
Municipality in the Upper East Region. The school started with 35
girls of no hope precisely on 8/9/98 and can now boast of over 200
brilliant girls of hope.
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The Association also had a grant support of ¢68m from (the
Alliance Ghana) an NGO hosted by FAWE Ghana Chapter an NGO
supporting girls and Women to acquire education, for the construction
of, a two-unit three classroom block office and store in 1999 and
2000 respectively. Thanks to the prompt intervention of the Alliance
and FAWE- Ghana Chapter.
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The group under the leadership of the coordinator Hon. John
Akaribo who is a Civic Educator competed and won an "Innovative
Award for Promoting Female Education in Africa" in 1999 and
Nyariga-Doone Women Association had to its credit a cash award of
US6000 and a plague presented to it in a ceremony in Kenya-Nairobi
in 2000. It was a joy for the chairlady Mad. Adombila an illiterate
to travel to Kenya for the award in 2000.
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The coordinator of the Association with commitment to Female
Education in this regard, invested this money in the school
infrastructure by including a library to the Girls Primary School
and construction of six unit room teacher’s house now at the
plastering and painting stage. (Kudos to FAWE Ghana and Kenya chapters).
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Establishment and construction of a single room Craft Centre
through self-help initiative (with local mud). That we are
currently using as an office (Credit to Blessing Baskets Project USA).
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Provision of a borehole to the school (Credit to the
Association, P.T.A and Municipal
Assembly.)
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Establishment and construction of supplementary feeding center
at Nyariga-Doone with Ministry of Health Nutrition Unit supporting
it with food ration for malnourished children, lactating Mothers
and pregnant women. (No more functioning)
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The uncompleted six (6) room primary school teachers quarters.
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The Coordinator, Hon. John Akaribo under the sponsorship of UNICEF
participated in an international workshop on Female Education held
in Zambia-Lusaka in 2000. (Credit to Alliance and UNICEF - Ghana).
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