HISTORY
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Williams Yirenkyi (Founder) |
VISION
Glovo exists to empower children without hope through education and skill training We want them to become self reliant and useful to themselves, society and the nation as a whole.
MISSION
To make Information and Communication Technologies accessible to local Basic Schools.
To provide opportunities to orphans, physically challenged, abandoned and Vulnerable children in our society.
To inculcate the spirit of cooperation, hard work and morality in less privileged children in society.
To promote Rural Development through sensitization, Volunteerism and outreach program.
GLOVO’S
THEMATIC AREAS
EDUCATION
HEALTH
ORPHANS, DISABILITY &
VULNERABILITY
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND
VOLUNTEERING
EDUCATION
Education is
one of the major bedrocks upon which nations are built. Without it the future
looks bleak and non-promising . The organization believes that education is
vital in shaping the future of children. Glovo’s projects and programmes in
education aim at empowering the children
through education, ICT and skill training.
Academic
Performance Monitoring: In this program we get in touch with
the children’s teachers to monitor their
academic development.
We have also supplied sixty (60) new school uniforms and assorted
learning materials to sixty deprived children.
Donation of
Computers: We have
supplied computers and accessories to seven (7) Basic
schools in Agona West Municipality and East District in the Central Region. We
have posted volunteers to teach ICT in schools where Glovo donated computers
to.
HEALTH
As a way of
curbing preventable deaths in rural
communities to reduce the rate of orphans and to help the rural folks to
understand that health is wealth, Glovo through it workshops and health
advocacy programmes stress the need of
having fewer children, adolescent reproductive health, sex education and child
nutrition.
Blood Donation:
We periodically organize blood donation exercises to support the Blood
Bank at the Agona swedru Municipal
Hospital. The last blood donation exercise was done at the Swedru Government
Hospital on 30th April, 2011.
We have registered 363 deprived children under
the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in Gomoa East and Agona West Districts
respectively to access health care freely.
ORPHANS, DISABILITY &
VULNERABILITY
We are
taking care of 15 hearing impaired children, 22 orphans, 10 physically challenge and 93 vulnerable under this
project majority of whom are girls.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND
VOLUNTEERING
We
distributed 48 barrels of used clothing to several poor rural communities in
Agona west and Agona East respectively .
We support
25 foster families monthly with food items and house hold effects.
We organise
End of Year party for the orphans
and vulnerable children.
We organise
community Outreach programmes on parental responsibility and child neglect,
sensitizing parent to nurture and care for
their children especially the girl child.
o increase enrolment of children of school – going age in Basic Schools through the provision of school uniforms and assorted learning materials.