The Centre for Grassroot Enterprise empowers street-connected families through capacity-building workshops, employment opportunities, and entrepreneurial support to aid them to be self-reliant and stay off the streets.
As an exit strategy, we involve the parents/guardians of our beneficiaries into sustainable social enterprises with the goal that in a maximum of 5 years, they are empowered to take responsibility for their children’s education and upbringing. We have led parents to form independent Village Savings and Loans Associations (VS&LA) and cooperatives of microenterprises.
This condition worsens the dropout rate. Reading Is Basic serves as a solution to empower students and children to read, improve their academic performance and in the long run reduce school dropout. This project promotes reading as a child’s right, improve academic performance and finally reduce school dropout.
Through our partners, Book Aid International UK, we are supporting and protecting quality education in some selected public schools. We are also aiming to establish libraries and learning centers in schools for supplemental learning. We hope to instill in students the habit and essence of reading by the end of this project.
Through our partners, Book Aid International, Rotary Club of Accra Airport, we are supporting and protecting quality education in some selected public schools. We are also aiming to establish libraries and learning centers in schools for supplemental learning.
