Student Work

The Creative Ambassadors of Lagos, Nigeria

MDG 6

In April, after the national elections, The Creative Ambassadors are planning a street rally to campaign against HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases and create awareness among young people on how they can protect themselves and encourage them to be well informed. Secondly, later that day, they will have a friendly match between two schools in their community. The theme of this football match is "Kick Against HIV/AIDS and Malaria"(KAHAM). Our Creative Ambassadors team will wear T-shirts with OWYP and Kick Against HIV / Aids and Malaria printed on it. As part of the planning, they will print fliers/handbills to create awareness, send articles to news papers and appear on different t.v. programes to talk about OWYP and the coming events. To fundraise, they are planning to sell different artistic things like drawings, etching and beads they will make ourselves.                                  

Creative Ambassador student leaders

The Riverside School of Lyndonville, Vermont, USA

MDG 6

We are going to work with a local AIDS Service Organization called Vermont Cares. We will get trained to work with kids who are infected and affected by HIV. WE hope that we can become friends with them and give them the support they need, a friend to talk to.

For our major OWYP project we are going to organize a walk for HIV/AIDS along the road near our school. We'll make and sell t-shirts and have a bake sale at the end. We'll get donations from people and businesses to sponsor walkers. The goal of our fundraising is to raise enough money to send 5 of these kids to a summer camp that supports them. It cost $50 per kid.

IRC Program of Crawford High School in San Diego, California, USA

MDG 2

The IRC Program students have teamed up with Mekeda Dread, founder of Give A Hug Foundation and The World Beat Center in (www.worldbeatcenter.org) to produce a fundraising concert here in San Diego scheduled. She is kind enough to teach the students the finer arts of event planning and stage production.   The students will learn some great skills while working to create the scholarships for the students most in need at the camp.  The concert is planned for May, near the end of the school semester here. This will allow the Crawford High students enough time to really produce a quality production.   The funds will go towards a scholarship fund for students of their sister school at the Buduburum Refugee Camp in Accra, Ghana.  The concert will also serve to inform the public about MDG 2!

IRC students at the World Beat Center

Jeanne D'Arc School of Rabat, Morocco

MDGs 4 & 5

The students of the OWYP group at Jeanne D'Arc are working in conjunction with the "Lutins des sables" Association to provide nursing bottles to a local orphanage.  They will also organize a student conference about MDG 5.  As of March 1st the Jeanne D'Arc students have started collecting money for their project. They have put  boxes in all the secondary school classrooms so all the students of the school can participate by putting some money in their class box. They have set a deadline of April 18th to raise enough money to buy as least 100 nursing bottles. They already have a donation of 20 nursing bottles. In 2 weeks they are going to sell cakes during one week in their school to complete their budget.

Caistor Center Public School of Ontario, Canada

MDG 5

The students of Caistor Central Public School in Ontario, Canada started a button campaign to raise awareness and money to improve maternal health. 

The students raised over to $1100 in their first days of sales for Community Care and Stephen Lewis Foundation!

The students are planning to set up booths in local malls and community venues to sell their buttons and raise awareness.  The grade 8 students are planning to travel from school to school and present a powerpoint presentation on the need to improve maternal health across the world to raise awareness with their peers in our community.  

Click here to see Caistor's info sheet for their campaign!

Red Ambiental Nayarit of Tepic, Mexico

MDG 7

The youth of the Red Ambiental Group are planning to conduct environmental education workshops for their community, set up volunteer teams in schools and communities to separate garbage for composting and recycling and reuse when possible, and to ultimately create a sanitary landfill for the state of Nayarit!

Click here to view Red Ambiental's full action plan!

Simba Friends Foundation Club of Teshie, Ghana

MDG 2

The youth of the Simba Friends Foundation Club have put forward this plan:

ACTION PLAN FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT

Focus:  Achieving Universal Primary Education

Project Title:  Providing a standard MDG Community Library and Educational Materials: Transforminng Lives

With reference to our Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) focus which   automatically becomes central to the theme and the basis of our community project, we decided to work on our community’s library which in recent times has not been fully utilize by the youth of the community due to its current state, location and the lack of necessary or requisite facilities that are needed to run a standard library in the 21st Century (as can been seen from the pictures attached).

On the other hand, we have also decided to provide school uniforms and stationery for the less privileged pupils at one government assisted school in Teshie. Despite the fact that there is the introduction of Capitation Grant and the school feeding programme by the government to boost primary school enrollment as entailed in the MDGs Goals 2 some children are unable to enroll in school due to the lack of school uniforms and stationery materials such as exercise books, text books etc. Access to quality education has become one of the problems of the community.  

Why this project (Problem Statement)

We want to undertake this project because, we belief it is a step to support the fight against illiteracy in our community and it attendant effects on a community like Teshie, Ghana and the world as a whole.

The level of illiteracy in our community (Teshie) is very high and as a result of this, has caused the standard of living to be very low. So we strongly belief that throughthis project we can also do something for our community in terms of supporting primary education.

THE PROJECT SITE:

Front of the Community Library

          Right side view                                                            Left side view

The above pictures (Figure 1, 2 & 3) shows the state and location of our community library. Information being gathered is that there is a new library project being undertaken, but at the moment this structure is being used.

MATERIALS

Materials needed for this project may include:

This is materials that have been stated above will be obtain through raising of funds by the use of an “Appeal for funds” sheet designed by Simba Friends, which will be shared among the members of Simba Friends Foundation Club and also information will be sent to eminent people in our community, corporate bodies and others for support.

The funds that are got will be used in purchasing the items to address the needs of the community. The target sum needed for this project is ¢ 3,050,000.

TIME OF DONATION

The donation will be done on the 13th of April 2007 during a meeting that will attract guest from the Pharmacy Council, the Chief Librarian and a Teacher from the Teshie Presbyterian Sec. School.

We will also invite the media (Junior Graphic and other news agencies in Ghana) to create more awareness about the problem statement.

BUDGET

Outcomes of the Project 

The project will complement government’s efforts in providing about 80% uninterrupted learning for the school children. This is expected to contribute and facilitate Ghana’s move to achieving the set targets for the attainment of the Goal 2 of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

The project will reduce the rate of poverty in the years to come and ultimately improve the standard of living. Quality education with the requisite facilities provided under this project will give young people a stronger voice in society, and create the opportunities and choices that allow them to lift themselves out of poverty.

SUSTAINABILITY

The project has sustainability, since the community library is a government library that is being managed by the government of Ghana through the Ghana Education Service and the District Coordinating Council. After the completion of the project, the government will take over from SFFC as the service provider as the community continues to benefit from it because of the demand for education.

Moreover, Simba Friends Foundation Club (SFFC) has a formidable internal capacity of competent leadership and staff coupled with the technical competencies that it has in the areas of entrepreneurship, flexibility, and adaptability to changing internal and external conditions. This makes the group to move towards our goal and aim despite all encumbrances that might occur.