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.
A list of our achievments
- 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
- Establishment of a brand new community radio station, which will broadcast educational programs
to the entire Builsa district.
Current Projects:
- Construction of guest house
- Human rights and good governance education using theatre and drama
Radio Builsa 106.5
Project: Community interactive radio programming
Objective: To link rural communities with radio programming as a means to express the needs and concerns of the common
people in an interactive format. The goal of this programming is to provide a voice to the voiceless, a way for rural communities to connect with their peers in
the greater district of Builsa and for their government representatives to understand their needs.
Summary: Radio Builsa 106.5 travelled during the months of June and July 2010 to various rural communities to meet with
the Chiefs, the District Assembly men and members of the community. People were given the opportunity to express their concerns and to communicate their needs.
The interviews were recorded and were broadcast on Radio Builsa 106.5 during the following weeks. Radio Builsa travelled to many rural communities within the
Builsa District during these two months, following are some photos from two such communities.
Siniensi
Dominic Achinkok
My name is Dominic Achinkok, I am currently a Community Nutrition student at the University for Development Studies in Tamale. Most prefer to call me Websy because that is my nick-name when I'm on air. I have worked as a pioneer for Radio Builsa since 2008 in the areas of Disc Jockeying, News Writing and Reading as well as Community Programming. Reggae, Hip Hop, Hiplife and Jazz are the types of music that I listen to. My dream is to be an urologist. I'm proud of Radio Builsa 106.5 FM because it is the voice of the poor and deprived.
HIV/AIDS PREVENTION
Blood testing in Kadema gold mining village
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.
Faustina Amoadek making a dress from her fabrics
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Faustina weaving the fabrics
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Faustina's Fabrics
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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.
Our borehole
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Let's not forget the construction of the classrooms, workshops and library over a decade ago, and
still holding strong.
Sandema Educational Resource Centre - seen from afar
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