The Sandema Project | Activities

Our centre enables young people in the 13-25 age group to learn skills to achieve their potential, setup small-scale, self-sustaining enterprises locally and to raise awareness of public affairs. 80% of the beneficiaries are female. The centre has 25 staff, all Ghanaian, and activities include training in weaving, dressmaking, capentry, metalwork, tie-dye, batic, soap-making, bee-keeping, drama and music. It has AIDS prevention and anti-witchcraft programmes, remedial classes for secondary school pupils and a public library. Since the centre's inception in 1997, over several thousand young people have benefited from its services, all free of charge. A charity trustee regulary goes out to Ghana to monitor the work at first hand, to assess ongoing needs and to ensure that your money is properly spent.

Public library open 14 hours a day
Remedial classes to improve secondary school exam performance
Adult literacy classes
Drama group, broadcasting on Ghana Radio
Young musicians group
Tailoring, dressmaking and carpentry workshops
Well providing clean water all year round
Volleyball pitch
700 Science textbooks donated to local secondary schools
Link with Falconer School, Bushey, Hertfordshire
Welding workshop, bee-keeping, basic literacy and numeracy, tie-dying & soap-making

Current Projects:

Establishment of a brand new community radio station, which will broadcast educational programs to the entire Builsa district (ACCOMPLISHED!).
Construction of guest house
Human rights and good governance education using theatre and drama

Ayemoma

"I took part in the free classes organised at Sandema Educational Resource Centre. I also used the library so much all through my senior secondary school. It's a reason for my success....."

He is now a second year undergraduate at the University for Development Studies, Tamale.

Aziz Issaku

"I attended the Centre's remedial classes in 2006-7 and was able to pass maths and integrated science with good grades. I'm now a primary school teacher and I also teach social studies in the Centre's remedial class."

Faustina

Below is Faustina Amoadek who was trained in the centre's tailoring workshop. She completed in October 2004 and, with the help of a loan from the centre she set up her own small business.

As you can see we don't only educate the people who come to the Sandema Educational Resource Centre, we also help them apply their new skills after they leave.

Further projects that we have completed in Sandema include the drilling of a borehole to provide clean drinking water.

Let's not forget the construction of the classrooms, workshops and library over a decade ago, and still holding strong.