AFRICA’S WOMEN AND CHILDREN ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION

The Africa’s Women and Children Assistance Foundations were founded December 4. 2005. The Organization founding came about base upon the coming together of loving and caring Liberians who couldn’t sit to see the future of our beloved Country loosing it foundations mainly within the Buduburam Refugee Settlement, Accra-Ghana and Liberia all of West-Africa.

Men summoned, gather at a particular place and places to discuss about the unwholesome look of our Mothers and children as to seeing how best we could put a measure into place to finding solutions to help in minimizing the ratios of these dying people thus by giving them their basic needs.

AWCAF: is a Non Political, Non Nationalistic, and Non Racial organization.

AWCAF DIRECTOR & CO DIRECTOR SIDE BY

A LOCAL VOULNTEER FROM THE (NEWAT)

SECURITY FIRM AT BUDUBURAM

Women and children are the most affected people in any given disasters, be it man made or natural. During the Civil Crisis of the first cease fire in Liberia, which affected almost every Liberian" for which am no exception, Women were seen as media of sex in the name of food for the survival of their children. 

Children were abandoning by parents due to the lack of food and shelter. Mothers were been force into sex trade for the support of the young ones.  Love and passion for humanity led me in organizing a plan to meet the needs of these less fortunate women and abandoned children. 
We began by soliciting through a project dubbed “Food for Work". Food gathered from the work is distributed among the people. Through this many that were subjected to object poverty through war were given hope.

Expansion: the program was extended into empowering skills training for women and academic for the children. Through volunteers and good will people materials were made available for the construction of hostels for the women and children. 

Ever since 1990, to present the operation has affected positively the lives of many women and children across the sub Sahara regions include: Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Togo, Guinea, and Ghana were women are exported for sexual trade. 

Quietly recently, about three years ago now the Agricultural sector has been added for the sustainability of the project. We now do poetry farming, Crops farming, and now contemplating on Rubber farming in Liberia. We are trusting in God that this will meet and transform lives. 

Buduburam Refugee Camp is One hundred and forty four (144) acres of stretched land inhabited by approximately 45.000 Liberian refugees" who fled the civil carnage which started in December 24 1989. The land is enclosed by private ownership thus making it impossible to farm or carry out any economic activity on available land for self-sustainability.

Considering the huge number of refugees settled on such a small land, this congestion would means that the people are susceptible to hardship as they partake in little or no economic activity with respect to working the land; they are liable to the contraction of contagious diseases, especially so where public toilets are situated in the midst of clouted houses, inadequate drainages, irregular sewage disposal and a fewer garbage containers ( over half of the people use the nearby bushes to defecate). Such poor sanitary conditions pose a very serious threat to the health of the people. Mosquitoes are numerous and malaria is common places. There is a single Clinic" that cater for all of these people. Drugs are basically being supplied by the UNHCR, the UN agency that is solely responsible for these refugees and the nearby Apam Catholic Hospital located in the nearby District of Apam in the Central Region of Ghana. Of course drugs and others services are paid for, when they according to the policy of the UNHCR should be free of charge.

About 90per cent of the population are Jobless. The remaining of the 10per cent are laborers, teachers and others own small businesses. These people came to exile with other skills, basically farming, while some have others skills but find it very much difficult to be employed because of their different nationality and their locations which is a good distance away from the Capital and other industrious towns is a disadvantage.

Of course internally the people (refugees) are not united. This situation stemmed from the Civil Conflict and has made the population even more tribalism’s, an act considered a means to shield themselves from those consider their enemies.

Liberia, High Power Delegation (HPD) at Buduburam Refugee Settlement

Visit to the Camp to meet with the Liberians refugees after a long term protest on the statement of reintegration made by the government of Ghana.

To make scrupulous use of all available resources to transform third world communities" especially Africa, South of the Sahara into mines of knowledge and hives of productive economic activities so as to create a community in sub Sahara Africa of equal opportunities for women and children for all it takes to make live worth a livelihood

The Africa Women and Children Assistance Foundation (AWCAF) is a unique organization that is designed and structured to cater to women and children as mentioned above. The organization is a Non Political, Non Nationalistic and Non Racial organization. By the help of God the Almighty, through the direction of heartfelt and concern believers of the gospel, awcaf have been established henceforth to cater and take a leading role in the care taking of women and children in deplorable conditions most especially those living within Refugee Camps as well as all of Africa trouble or devastated regions.

The Africa Women And Children Assistance Foundation (AWCAF) is standing firmly in it capacity to reach these conditioning people to a higher and prosperous level in life! However, upon the faith developed by the organization if given the necessary support locally or internationally to embark on our aims and objectives; AWCAF is strongly and consciously in the position to cater to the problem of these victimized people as to empowering them in good moral and intellectual integrity to the fit of modern society.

The Vision of AWCAF for the third world, especially Africa, South of the Sahara is a human society which opportunities are accessible and within our means for as it citizens especially women and children and the physically challenged for all it takes to make life worth livelihood. Under this review in which Africa is facing and witnessing the act of (War, Natural Disasters, and Economy Hardship), ten and thousands of women and children have been left Homeless and Hopeless as a result of lacking their daily needs. Because of these awful and painful situations, this organization has been established to help eradicate and bring hope and reliefs to these dying people. The organization have viewed it potential credibility, tremendously and however, it heartfelt concern for the love and respectful care of these women and children. With the crucial growing concern about venerable people; awcaf organization and it volunteers have seen this as a need to help in empowering these women and children in good moral conduct and intellectual up lifting thus by giving them their basic as a ways and means of seeking local and international supports to help.

HOME OF AWCAF
AWCAF presently OPERATES in Accra Ghana and Monrovia Liberia all of West Africa” considered poverty striking nations reviving through {Economy Hardship} and {Infrastructure Development}.

1 Corinthian 13:4

Under this review in which Africa is facing and witnessing the act of (War, Natural Disaster and Economy Hardship) ten and thousands of these Women and Children have been left homeless and hopeless as results of lacking their daily needs. It’s in this direction in which due to the high standard of living (poverty), Nations had to go through a very long term of crisis. Base upon that perceptions, this unique organization have been established to assist and be more concern about the women and children especially those said to be in these following circumstances.

a. Street Children b. Un-Accompanied Children g. Teenage HIV/AIDS Carrier’s

c. Orphan Children d. Teenage Mother

e. Widowers f. Old age People

The organization have been designed and structured to help women and children who are categorically found within the below listed conditions:

a. Hopeless b. Hard Labor Abuses c. Drugs Abuses d. Defilement/Rape e. Child Abuses

The organization was able to have made a significant impact by finding a temporary center for the children but at least three to four (3-4) hours everyday, with volunteers including males and females. The organization have been able to have gather about sixty two (62) children in which four of them are handicaps, three are victims of teenage pregnancy and sixty percent of the children are not in school.

In February 2008, the organization were able to have fed the amount of five hundred (500) children and give to the most needed women over forty bags of rice with cooking oil and other inclusive. However, with the help of an overseas humanitarian entity, Youth With A Mission (YWAM) German Team to Ghana 2008, through the awcaf organization were able to have assisted those with medical problems in which two people have benefited already while one is still pending surgical operations to be done at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra Ghana. The organization was also able to have freed about three persons from Police custody. AWCAF organization is registered with license so far from the (LWRC) department. However, we also help in the field of sanitation improvements.

It ‘s against this background that this unique organization have developed a strong faith, if giving the necessary support local and internationally to embark on our Aims and Objectives, the organization is strongly and firmly in the position to cater to the problems of these Women and Children base on the varieties listed below that have been requested of:

1. Education 2. Skills Training such as, a. carpentry b. Building Construction c. Cater d. Interior designing 3. Food, Safe drinking water, Shelter, Medication, and Clothing.

FOOD IS WHAT WE NEED TO KEEP BEING HEALTHY!

WE NEED YOUR HUMANITARIAN HELP!

SHELTER, MEDICINE, COLTHING & EDUCATION IS WHAT WE NEED. PLEASE HELP AWCAF TO HELP US LIVE!

The need to sustain the Organization and to keep to its functions and goals. Give rise to the implementation of farming both in Crops and Live stocks. 

Secondly, AWCAF through its agricultural activities provide for the needy women and children from the sales of produce. As a way of empowerment. We train and provide farming materials for women and beneficiaries of our skills training programs. In 2006, about 60 women benefited from our skills training and empowerment programs. In the Republic Of Sierra Leone, 45 women are currently self-employed through the applications of skills acquired from the organization.

The organization is not only training people in farming alone but have other areas of discipline to include: Beauty Care, Catering, Adult Literacy, Tailoring etc.

With our limited resources, we crave for the betterment of people and especially in the area of developing and transforming them for the improvement of their lives and communities and more over, the continent of Africa. 

The future of the women and children has become an eminent issue in the World over. Considering the fact that they are always victims of disasters and other perpetuated crimes in Africa. 

The organization also offered trauma counseling to its clients in support of their well being. The counseling serves as prerequisites to the identifying of people who are to be eligible for the assistance render. It also identifies the medical need of the people and makes referral to either the Psychiatric Hospital or the Clinic for treatments. 

Members are carrying through spiritual enlightenment with the idea that things will be well not matter what. And any assistance received is by the divine provision of God.

PROGRAM SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES

1. Construction of unavailable but necessary learning facilities in the third World especially in the Africa South of the Sahara.

2. Providing learning and teaching materials for Schools in the reach of communities and other underprivileged communities of the third especially Africa, South of the Sahara.

Chelsea, a Canadian (IV) with the (CYE ORG), have work to ensure livelihood at Buduburam Camp.
Rev. Woods and Kids in Bible Study.

3. Supporting reading readiness facilities (Libraries) 

4. Supporting education related extracurricular activities for and among our beneficiaries and other less advantage in Africa (Debate, Quiz, Poetry and Essay writing competition) etc.

1. Helping to organize relief and rehabilitation assistance to the beneficiaries of AWCAF within the under-privileged Communities in sub Sahara Africa. 

2. Providing food, Shelter, Clothing, and Medicare for refugee women and children in the under-privilege community in Africa.

3. Provide for victim of Earth quakes, Flooding, Arson, Land slide and Drought in Africa.

1. Helping to create Vocational or Skills Training opportunities for the women and children in evidently disadvantaged communities in Africa

2. Establishing Micro-Credit facilities for the women of AWCAF in evidently disadvantaged Africa.

3. Supporting management training opportunities for the AWCAF beneficiaries as potential business in Africa.


1. Working with Spiritual Leaders in Africa communities to encourage and ensure religious tolerance at the expense fundamentalism.

2. Supporting Moral Education for the women and children in Africa.

I.   Education Assistance (Formal and Informal)
II.  Relief Welfare and Humanitarian Services
III. Economic Empowerment
IV. Recreation and Sports
V.  Counseling/Spiritual Development
VI. Agricultural Programs

1. MR. FEDELL N. THOMAS. Founder and Director of AWCAF Organization

2. MR. HENRY W. CHIDEE. Co. Director of AWCAF Organization

3. Director and Co. Director of AWCAF in the Corn Farm. A Project of the agricultural program of AWCAF.

4. HANDICAPS sponsored by partnership Team of “YOUTH WITH A MISSION (YWAM), through AWCAF Organization.

WHAT IS AWCAF?

Africa Women And Children Assistance Foundation (AWCAF), Is a humanitarian Non Profit Making organization" organize for the distinct purpose of bringing relief and hope to the vulnerable African women and children that are affected by (War, Natural Disaster and Economy Hardship).

Motto

“The Future of the Women and Children Depends On You”.

LOGO

A map of Africa with women and children pursing education.

Color

Yellow, Rose and Green

Contact Address

Gomoa East District, Buduburam, P.O.Box 46, State House, Central Region, Accra Ghana, West Africa

Monteserrado County, Paynesville City, P.O.Box, 1000 Monrovia - 10 Liberia, West Africa

Board Members

1. Gay-Marie Hollingsworth ……………..Chairlady

2. Frederick L. Myers…………..…………Co. Chairman

3. Fedell N. Thomas. ……………….…… Secretary

4. David D. Lockhart ……………………..International Fund Raiser

5. Christine Carter ……………………......Legal Advisor

6. Silas Nii. Lamptey …………………….. Member

Let’s all work in peace and harmony to ensure and make the World, A Better Community for All.

Our goals should be the main concern in determining the work and faith to be carry out in this organization.

Whether you eat or drink or whatsoever you do, Do it all for the glory of God the Heavenly Father!

1Corinthian 10:31

Executives Position

Fedell N. Thomas …………………..… Executive Director

Henry W. Chidee ………………..….…Co Exec. Director

Adelaide Bonar ……………………...…Secretary

Yvette Y. Zanga………………….….….Financial Secretary

Ade Bella Collins …………….……...…Treasurer

Ernest Cassell ………………………….. Country Representative Liberia (CRL)

Mickeever Arkoi ………………………..Spiritual Leader

Gitayea ……………………..Spiritual Leader

Other volunteer Workers

Tommy P. Holder …………………......Project Director

Mickeever Arkoi ………………………..Spiritual Leader

Celia M. Sonpon…...……………………Teacher hygiene

Mamie Z. Weeks………………………..Teacher and Cook

Kate Manford…………………………....Teacher Music

Motto: “The Future of the Women and Children Depends On You”

Visit our page @: http://awcaf.synthasite.com / http://fedell4jesus.blogspot.com

May God continue to bless AWCAF organization!

Poverty Reduction Strategy 
Agricultural Program

 Project Proposal


Africa Women And Children Assistance Foundation
(AWCAF)
Republic of Liberia
 Montserrado County


Submitted to:

Signed:
Executive Director

Approved by:
Chairlady Board of Directors

Date of Submission:


Motto:” The future of the women & children, depends on you”

INTRODUCTION:

December 4. 2004 the dream for helping the under- privilege women and children to discover their hidden talents and skills to become better future leaders was conceived by my wife and I here in Ghana. After several years as refugees strange situation issued on May 28. 2006, which permitted us to begin a Bible study class to enable children particularly refugees and others to be drawn to God as their Lord. This however succeeded but the struggle to (Economy Hardship) interrupted said study and children went away all because they started stretching out their arms to finding food for their own survival. The situation affects the children directly and indirectly in many ways.

However, cooping with these awful situations, as donor’s Nations in the World faces a great depression/breakdown in the economic systems to be specific financial crisis. The U.S” been one of the biggest Donors is caught in a recessions that are possible effecting the World leading economy Countries directly or indirectly and many companies operating globally are termed to be going bankrupt and over thousands of workers have lost their jobs because of this while it undetermined that others are yet to be loosing theirs as soon. This is a clear indication and understanding that anyone can possibly imagine and crave to as necessary. If there is a possibility to ensure a bailout into the economic systems let in is now in this 2009.

It’s true that the World leading Countries are facing these disasters, but many poorer Nations are said to be in their worse of it economy diverge. However, there is a saying” whether good or bad life must go on. It is an honor most respectfully to reciprocate as a member of the youth coalition and Director of the Africa’s Women And Children Assistance Foundation (AWCAF) organization, to console by way of giving my virtues or input for which I stands to undertake this Project. Believing it is one of means for which poverty eradication and global financial reductions could be cut down.

Target group: the World at large most especially poorer Nations

Extension to the privilege people most especially vulnerable women and children from all sorts of (War, Natural Disasters and Economy Hardship) nations as poverty is a living hell.

Global economics should be looking at some of these problems linking that could easily cause a serous drained out situations for things to get worse before getting better. Understanding global economy crisis is a focus of the World and concern to everyone today we have to take a step forward to minimizing some of these problems.

OBJECTIVES:

It is my understanding and fervent hope to help in the feeding process if giving the necessary equipments and financial backing to embark on this project.

The objective of this organization shall be as follows:

Beneficiaries: To help feed Poorer Nations of the World at large from Liberia and extension
To educate to become substantiate future producers
To enable Liberia to produce sustainable food and packaging as well as other essential commodities by rising employees talents
To build school to enhance their learning capacity
To built School and use one of the building room as Internet café to equip them to use computer for re-search purpose.
To expose them to agricultural technology
To equip them vocationally.

Believing the world poverty eradication and financial reduction causes could be cut down one way at another; poorer nations will continue to look forward and continue begging for helping assistances from leading Nations in the world.

There are different purposes and means for which this project will likely be managed:

Remember, AWCAF is a non-political organization but humanitarian in nature which is purposely formed to educate vulnerable children secularly, religiously as well as vocationally.  She will educate and further train people to use their given talents to produce or become useful leaders of tomorrow as Liberia, Africa and the rest of others nations in the World are no exceptions.

1. Crops: all kinds of crops growing will be grown in Liberia as preparations for massive productions will be undertaken as examination will be properly conducted to the fit of meeting international standard.

2. Animal Raring: all kinds of flesh eating animals will be rare in specific areas in Liberia as farm animals will be treated medically with massive productions of preparations will be undertaken as properly conducted to the fit of meeting international standard for exportations.

It’s the time that the World biggest donor’s Countries consider trusting the understanding of the underestimated such as NGO’s, CBO’s and others organizations specialize in particular areas to help in alleviating causes that could possibly damage the world global economy.

Strategy: AWCAF has adopted the system of developing the minds of people most especially women and children by educating them to know God as their Lord. She shall also include secular education in her program to enable the people to complete their vocational skills training and other school educations.


Moreover, AWCAF will also train children technically to make them useful citizens of inter-states of the World. AWCAF will monitor the activities of every one and conduct counseling services as contact to international partners. She shall also organize extramural activities to permit workers proof their God’s giving talents.

Past Achievement: For the past years AWCAF succeeded in conducting bible study classes for 300 women, and 400 children, and fed the identical number of children Camp. It is our hope to do more as we set to receiving the assistances needed particularly Liberia where this project will be carries out.

Problems: During the period of operation AWCAF has identified the following:
Lack of education for many most especially women, orphans and disadvantage children as impediment to their future
Lack of inadequate food for orphans and disadvantage children. This has been the cause of pre-mature death among the children of the world today’s.
Lack of medical care-this also affected more children and adults alike in the area, thus causing death of both children and adults.


AWCAF feels when these problems are adequately addressed; the growth of the people of the World most especially up standard of the women and children will be important and indeed will become useful citizens.

Evaluation: AWCAF project will be monitored periodically by project officer and other staff who will make sub-sequent report to the Executive Director for an onward transmission to the Donors.

LAND NEEDED:

Agricultural as consider the productions of crops and the raising of farm animals to provide goods, drugs and services. However, the deal to have a (1500-Acres) three hundred acres of stretched farmland in Liberia is one of the best and non-regrettable investments anyone can highly and possibly imagine.

There will be no cause of worries or regret. An outcome of massive productions from the fertile soils could lead to a greater portion of the world feeding reproach today and could possibly cut down some of the World biggest donor nation’s irrelevant expenditures by minimization.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

REQUEST:

AWCAF, under this review in which it have developed and decided to run this project if given the necessary supports to embark on our aims and objectives, we are strongly and consciously in the position with much assurance to making this project a success for the benefit of all people in dying needs.

MANAGEABLE TEAM:

The project shall commence from the date of start as mentioned above. Due to this fact it shall also be managed under the supervision of the Africa’s Women And Children Assistance Foundation. Project officer and other Staffs members shall stand in the capacity to ensuring clarity of the project sustainability and with all effort to convene field workers to give the best of their abilities for efficient substantiate growth. With the help of International donor’s support, AWCAF on the other hand are eligible to receiving helping assistances from any persons, Organization, Government or relevant Institutions.

Subsequently with great idealistic and innovation of practitioner workers, the organization in it capacity shall and with all due respect under it technical Advisory Board see to it that those who are working and ready to work in various fields be given the necessary learning facilities to help up in theirs learning skills. Great concern as a humanitarian organization it shall also stand in the position to help with necessary needs for all employees and staffs members.

REFRIANGED PRATICES:

AWCAF shall no way discriminate or in for any reasons disobey any of it working force not for any reason shall we condemn or condom any irrelevant attitudes from any members as strictly forbidding by the constitution.