Educational Outreach Projects
TECHNICAL / VOCATIONAL SKILLS TRAINING
The CTIW Foundation seeks to set up an advanced technology research and technical vocational training development centre in woodwork and metalwork with the application mechanics, automated electronics, and artificial intelligence. The facility shall serve as a research and training development centre for product development and commercial industrialization of production lines with the application of CNC engineering technologies and computer aided designing. The facility shall be a centre of excellence and research into product development and shall assist entrepreneurs with conceptualising and bringing into reality new products to meet growing market demands. The centre shall also seek to help industries set up more efficient and effective product development systems and processes to increase productivity and turnover.
The Challenge
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In Ghana, about 40% of the youth are not able to finish their high school and drop out of school at the age of 15 or 16.
We hope to provide through the centre, high quality technical vocational training as well as support existing training institutions develop and improve technical training modules, capable of equipping these young people with the requisite skills and knowledge that will walk them into their dream careers, empower them to venture entrepreneurship and equip them with modern age technology to enable them to compete on the local and international markets.
CTIW Foundation advanced technology research and technical vocational training development centre would seek to offer entrepreneurship coaching programs Learners complete the training program.
CTIW Foundation is currently working together with different partners in a pilot project in woodwork and metalwork to identify the skills gaps and develop learning content that will bridge these gaps.
With the development of advanced high quality training modules, we will be in the position to transfer knowledge acquired to empower other skill development Institutes in Ghana by getting government agencies and other partner development organisations involved for accreditation of programs and standardization.
SCHOOL TRANSPORT PROJECT
The CTIW School Transport Project is designed to support school going children in deprived towns and villages with a means of transport managed by each school. The project is targeted at very deprived and remote villages where children must walk very long miles before getting to school and doing same back home. This unfortunately wears them out, affects the soundness and concentration levels of school going children during class hours contributing to the problem of poor academic student performance in these deprived settlements. The lack of proper road networks makes it almost impossible for vehicles to plough these routes which leaves inhabitants with walking as the only means of transport.
This means of transport will be provided through the sourcing of used bicycle and tricycle donations from developed countries across the world where used bicycles/tricycles are a major means of transport.
The project is also aimed at creating employment opportunities for inhabitants of these settlements, through the training of inhabitants with small start-up capital for the establishment of bicycle and tricycles servicing centres.
In addition, the project shall also improve the survival chances for medical emergencies in these deprived areas where pharmacies and health care centres are miles away resulting in tragedies and the loss of lives following their inability to find medical care on time with most medical emergencies especially pregnant women at childbirth.
SCHOOL FURNITURE PROJECT
CTIW Foundation in partnership with educational institutions across Ghana are facilitating and mobilizing unused teaching and learning resources along with school furniture to support and improve the quality of education in less privileged schools across the African continent.
The School Support Program under CTIW Foundation's Education Support Programme is designed to provide assistance to deprived and under-privileged schools in Africa, mostly located in unplanned townships. These townships develop as a result of poverty-driven re-settlements in the struggle for survival when low-income earners in developing townships are no more able to afford the cost of living and eventually move to resettle to virgin lands to survive without the knowledge of town planning and housing authorities in Africa.
The overwhelming nature of the rapid evolution of such unplanned settlements outruns national budgets making it impossible for the provision of adequate social amenities to support livelihoods in these areas and in most cases no resources at all to support budgetary allocation.
EDUCATION SUPPORT PROGRAMMES
Our Education Support Programmes provides education support through sustainable funding support programmes and resource supplies to schools and students in need. Education continues to be one of the main driving factors in human resource development in our world today. However, there are millions of children without access to education or access to poor qualities of education that deprives them of the equal opportunity for human development and self-actualisation. This global challenge leaves the future of these poor communities in backward and stagnant growing trends of development.
It is our dream and desire to set up Education Support Programmes to assist as many children as possible and as many schools as possible. "One Child at a Time and One School at a Time" will change the whole world.
The education support program is divided in three parts:
School Support Programme
The School Support Programme is designed to aid deprived schools and schools in rural areas through the support of privileged schools who have available resources to support schools in the described category.
Privileged schools support with extra resources available to them, teaching and learning aids no more in use and general donations to less privileged schools to assist them offer higher quality education to children and teens in these poor communities with very little or no increase in cost of education to its students.
School Fees Support Programme
Privileged families participating in the School Fees Support Programme are encouraged to adopt and support needy children fund cost of their education. Individuals, families and couples sponsor school fees of beneficiary children and teens in these poor communities for their primary education, junior/ senior high school education and where possible tertiary education.
Community Home Tuition Programme
An extension program for the Education Support Programme is the Community Home Tuition Programme designed to fund and provide after school extra tuition support for children in rural communities whose parents cannot afford the cost of home tuition for their children but are funding basic education fees. The programme will be set up in community centres, church premises etc. to assist children and teens in these rural communities with class assignments and extra tuition to ensure these children achieve more available educational systems and excel with outstanding grades.
INTER-SCHOOL PROJECT CLUBS
Inter-School Project Clubs are designed to help children/teenagers become aware of the responsibility they must protect the environment and the wider world. The Inter-School Project Clubs are project-oriented and are aimed at challenging groups of children and teenagers interested in developing their own projects that will have a positive impact on their society and improve the lives of people, their schools, and the communities in which they live.
Children are generally encouraged to propose projects to improve their own environment. The project should be aimed at identifying and solving problems in society. The children are assisted by volunteers who provide assistance and guidance throughout the project, with support from the CTIW Foundation.
The children and teens receive help with the necessary research and interviews. The Inter-School Project Coordinators assist the children and teens by establishing contacts with organizations or governments they wish to speak with for more information about the projects being set up.
STAR AWARD PROJECT
The CTIW Foundation intends to hold the Star Award Project annually for the most touching group or individual love acts demonstrated by children and teens around the world over previous year social projects initiatives.
We want to give awards to children and teens who express the greatest love to the needy, children and groups who come up with the most insightful projects with solutions through the project clubs as well as periodically give awards for inter-school academic excellence for children who make the greatest improvement over the previous academic year.
