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ACHIEVEMENTS

The Girls junior High School and Computer Lab. Funded by Blessing Basket Project-USA.
MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS
Girl child and female education.
 
Income generating activities (basket, soap, crop and livestock farming).
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:
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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).
 
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).
 
Provision of a borehole to the school (Credit to the Association, P.T.A and Municipal Assembly.)
 
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)
 
The uncompleted six (6) room primary school teachers quarters.
 
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).