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Play Equipment for the Ghana project in Kumasi

Caz — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:49:00 +0000

After a successful and productive trip to the project in Kumasi, Ghana, we’ve returned with lots of new things to tell about the project aims.

The town of Kumasi which has a popluation of 3 million people has NO playground equipment for the children. Not one playpark in the whole town! So with our help, our partner organisation Teensnet Foundation are going to provide a mobile playpark for the children to use. So, we’re on a mission to raise the money to provide the play equipment to be used. This is a wonderful and sustainable sub-project as it means local people will be employed to run the mobile play park. The money made by renting the equipment to schools for example, will pay the wages of the people running it and any profits will be put into savings for the main project there ‘The Centre of Hope’. For more information on the main project please have a look at the Ghana Project page. If you would like to donate to this part of the project you can donate through paypal on our Chipin on the right of this page.

Also, our original plan to replace the local primary school roof was looked at and due to the disrepair of the whole building, we have agreed to re-build the whole building, foundations, walls and all. The volunteers have been arranged and they’re on their way in January to do the work.

We’ve got a lot more news coming up about the Ghana project so keep checking back to see progress.

Akwaaaaaaaabaaaaa!

Lucy D — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:30:58 +0000

Lucy and Caz are home sweet home after completing a field assignment in Ghana, which was fab! Great progress is being made on our projects in Kumasi, which we were lucky enough to see in action while we were there.

The SAFE Foundation donated 6 whiteboards to Asawasi Methodist school to improve both teaching and learning standards, and we helped make them and put them up on our trip. Photos coming soon!

We also completed our final assessments on a construction project we have out there – rebuilding Yasufiya school! Contrary to the previous plan of reworking the roof, the project has expanded to do the whole school because it is in such a poor state. The SAFE Foundation is recruiting a team of volunteers with a bit of construction experience, lots of enthusiasm and who are eager to get stuck in to some good old honest hard work!

If you’re interested in helping, please get in touch with lucy@thesafefoundation.co.uk

Bow ties, bling and boas – what a blast!

Lucy D — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:40:54 +0000

Thank you to all those who decked themselves out in 1920’s style and attended the SAFE Foundation annual ball yesterday, we had an amazing time, and it seems you all did too!

Everything went off without a hitch, thanks to Hannah’s organisation skills, and although we haven’t tallied up the final amounts, we’re estimating we raised about £2000 for our projects in Ghana, Uganda, Sierra Leone and India.

Thank you to Maureen Owor, from TOCIDA, our newest charity partners, who attended and danced the night away with the rest of us!

A Global shout out!

Lucy D — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:59:38 +0000

A huge thank you to Owen, Gwyn and everyone who helped raised a whopping £865 for the SAFE Foundation at the Moustache Mayhem NYE party in the Globe. The night was a raging success, packed with people, music and facial hair all to see the new year in and raise money for little kiddies at the same time! The money will go to SAFE current projects in Ghana.

University of Glamorgan Thank you!

Caz — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:27:22 +0000

We’d like to give a huge Thank You to Emma Gwynnett and the students of the University of Glamorgan for their donation of £510.20 to fund the re-building of The Yasifa School Roof in our project in Kumasi, Ghana.
They raised the funds by holding an international Christmas dinner so lots of good food eaten and a good time had whilst raising some much needed money for those beautiful children.
Thank you all so much, with great people like this out there WE CAN DO IT!

SAFE Supporters!

Lucy D — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:30:54 +0000

We want to give a huge shout of appreciation to Ceri Griffiths and those who took part in Legal and General’s dress down day to support The SAFE Foundation and its projects. £860 was raised and will be donated to The SAFE projects in India and Ghana.

A big SAFE thank you!

Lucy D — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:16:51 +0000

The SAFE Foundation ladies want to give a huge pat on the back to all those who came to the recent garden party in Dyffryn house marquee, despite the floods and threat of rain. It turned out to be a lovely sunny day, with plenty of fizzy wine and sandwiches as promised.

Thanks to your enthusiam, donations and participation we managed to raise a whopping £700, all of which will be making its way to our projects in India and Ghana in the next coming months.

A special thank you to all those who contributed to the raffle by donating prizes, and of course to the fabulous Baroque string quartet who played all afternoon and made us feel very civilized!

We’ll keep you posted on the next events, so make sure you subscribe and get all your little chums to do so, so that you can keep your beady eyes out on the safest site on the world wide web!