Hope for the Future Generation Organisation is a Non Governmental Organisation registered with government of Ghana. The Organisation was formed mainly to focus on Rural Community people development in various aspects for self empowerment ESPECIALLY for Children and Women. The Organisation is based in Koforidua,New Juaben Municipal in the Eastern Region of Ghana.
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The education of the world’s children is high on the global agenda. In the context of education for all (EFA), all children should receive free, good quality education. The reality is that millions of the world’s children are too poor to benefit from the declaration, unless there are special interventions that target their development. Unfortunately, such children do not form a special social category in poverty eradication intervention programmes. Thus, their inclusion in the achievement of EFA appears to be a hit-or-miss phenomenon. Recognizing the central role of poverty eradication in wider global gendas and acknowledging the need to reach out to the poorest children with the objective to break the poverty cycle for them, HOPE FOR THE FUTURE GENERATION ORGANIZATION embarked on a programme of education and poverty eradication.
The Project aims at solving the problems hidden by the fact that orphans and vulnerable children are invisible; yet by the very nature of their situation, they are included among those that are classified as disadvantaged and poor in Ghana. Children are subsumed within the poverty categories most often referred to such as households, communities, people – which means that there is a high tendency to focus on adult-related poverty while children problems are ignored, partly because children have little power and influence within a group that contains adults.
Findings reflect that children in abject problems can be recognized by rather elementary (as opposed to sophisticated) criteria. Top on the list is absence of basic necessities such as shelter, food, clothing and water. Equally important is the ‘human condition’ in terms of physical health and parental care and protection. Schooling is high on the list as a critical criterion in determining who is extremely or modestly a vulnerable and disadvantaged child.
While there seems to be national consensus among donors, the public sector and civil society that the government has made commendable progress in implementing LEAP
(Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty) as flexibly as possible, it’s evolving nature, due to the participatory and consultative reviews it undergoes regularly, does not address many of the development challenges Disadvantaged children face today. It would take lobbying and advocacy interventions to ensure that the needs and demands of children in abject poverty are met.
The UNESCO 2003 study on Children in Abject Poverty in Ghana revealed that:
Ill health and inadequate health services remain critical challenges for children in abject poverty. This is aggravated by the living conditions of children in almost all the districts studied.
On a positive note, over three quarters of those who fell sick sought some kind of modern treatment; very few resorted to traditional healers.
School-related costs have been the major obstacle for children in abject poverty to access education.
