Community Outreach Projects
Community Outreach Projects are health and social projects designed to be used as mediums to reach out to deprived and less privileged communities around the world. Our Community Outreach Projects include:
FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAMME
This programme is a special programme designed to support families living below the poverty line acquire specific career skills to start small ventures capable of generating a sustained source of daily income to help the family make a living. The programme is also designed to support these families commence the full operation of the venture by providing 3 to 12 months management assistance to ensure the venture is successful before handing over completely to the beneficiary families.
The program shall also help beneficiary families acquire simple tools, machinery and raw materials as capital inputs to ensure a fully set up operation for the successful establishment of the venture.
FAMILY PEN PAL NETWORK
The CTIW Foundation seeks to establish an International Family Pen Pal Network with our children and teens pen pal programme.
The central point is to drive the initiative via families across the world giving children and teens an extra support system, especially for less privileged families.
Also, one of the goals shall be challenging each family to be of support to one another in difficult times through conversation, encouragement, and prayer.
C.A.M.P CRAFTS WORKSHOPS
C.A.M.P. (Creative Arts, Music, Painting) Crafts Workshops are educational skill development and training workshops designed to empower inhabitants of deprived communities earn a living for themselves and their families. The program is designed to improve existing skill crafts, identify, and develop new skills crafts amongst inhabitants, with carefully designed extension programs to help them identify existing markets and develop new markets for products and services produced through their skill craftsmanship.
C.A.M.P. Crafts Workshops Extension Programmes are livelihood empowerment programs designed to empower poor communities live above the poverty line, help them generate income and boost socio-economic empowerment of communities they hail from.
RURAL SUNDAY SCHOOL PROJECT
The Rural Sunday School Project is aimed at setting up Sunday School initiatives in rural communities in partnership with other children and teens ministries. The plan is to partner with the various children and teens ministries to reach out with the love of God to deprived and less-privileged settlements around them or in rural areas across the country. Teachers from participating children and teens ministries shall volunteer in shifts to hold exciting Sunday school services for as many rural settlements as possible each Sunday.
Children Ministries shall periodically travel with their children and teens to visit children and teens in these deprived areas to encourage the less privileged ones, share a meal together and pray for each other. These outreaches shall offer children and teens from privileged backgrounds the opportunity to grow into maturity and travel on missions to nearby villages as well as urban communities to share the love of God with other children. It would be a mission of prayer, worship, and creative arts like choreography, play acts, spoken word etc.
The Project is also designed to teach children how to give and support the less privileged in society. This we achieve by motivating children and teens to package special parcels with the help of their parents and these they give out to the deprived children in the communities they visit.
COMMUNITY SPORTS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
As rural communities lack quality education and where available education systems always offer the lowest quality across the globe, children and teens from these communities are deprived equal access to opportunities in countries of residence, leaving the future of these communities in a vicious cycle of economic growth redundancy.
We have therefore initiated and adopted the Community Sports Development Programme as an economic empowerment program to help inhabitants of the above-described settlements earn decent living standards and contribute to the development of their communities.
Various sports disciplines will be explored, and inhabitants shall be trained and assisted in exploring both local and international opportunities.
COMMUNITY HEALTH AND SANITATION
The Community Health and Sanitation Project is a community support programme designed to assist communities reduce the rate of mortality as a result of diseases and epidemics spread through poor sanitation practices in homes, school compounds and the community at large. Poor management of human waste in these poor communities coupled with the lack of health care facilities and reliable health care systems has led to increased mortality rate in these communities with children being the most vulnerable victims.
The project is also designed to provide periodic medical screening for communities deprived of medical facilities and assist such communities set up First Aid Medical Centres where non-prescription drugs can be rendered to inhabitants and general health conditions can be catered for. The First Aid Medical Centres shall have extension programs to train some capable inhabitants of the community to deliver first aid medical care and give health care recommendations for further treatment.
These trained inhabitants shall be supported by the Doctor/ Nurse Support Programme who shall give free consultancy over voice calls after records of various health conditions requiring attention have been documented for review. The Community Health and Sanitation Programme also seeks to establish a special Doctor/ Nurse Support Programme where qualified volunteer medical professionals shall visit adopted villages once every month to provide medical care to inhabitants.
This shall be a health intervention measure to help identify critical medical conditions at their early stages before developing into serious complications. This will shall be part of measures to reduce mortality rate in these deprived communities.
SOCIAL WELFARE AND WELLBEING CENTER
We seek to establish a Social Welfare and Wellbeing Centre in Accra (and beyond) with the purpose of:
- Counselling, coaching and guidance to the youth, teenagers and their families;
- Offer temporal rehabilitation accommodation for special cases;
- Offer counselling, coaching and mentoring foe unemployed youth and parents to help the youth find their place in life;
- Provide guidance for school leavers through teachers who are willing to teach children / teenagers after school on a voluntary basis until the children / teenagers can re-enter school;
- Help street and homeless people return to school, homes or find meaningful employment;
- Rescue minors from any form of physical, sexual or mental abuse;
- Offer Alpha Courses to give the younger generation hope for the future and give them a purpose of life.
The project is to help curb the problem of school dropouts, the homeless, drug abuse, sexual abuse, domestic violence and the increasing rate of unemployment and criminal activities in developing countries that adversely affect the lives of involved persons and development of growing economies.
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CAMPS
The International Community Development Camps are cross-cultural development camps designed to raise a future generation of change agents to become an expression of Gods unconditional love for mankind in every part of the world.
Children and teens between 8 and 17 years old participating at this camp are challenged to make a difference in a less privileged community by taking up one development challenge facing inhabitants and working with the support of the Foundation to find and develop solutions to touch lives.
Participants are led to discover how to become an agent of change, understand their role in society, discover and develop their potentials and abilities, and how they could use these God given talents and abilities in positively impacting society and the world at large.
