Staff CPYWD & Board FPGT
Foundation Partnership Ghana (Stichting Partnership Ghana) reports a successful first year! Together with partner CPYWD they worked on their educational and beekeeping-projects in North-Ghana.
All volunteers and donors, thank you!!!!!
During their visit to Ghana in january 2012, Maartje Bos and Sanne Peters brought the thoughts of Janusz Korczak further into practice. They let the children from Tamale express their basic emotions (happy, glad, angry, scared) in the most beautiful pictures!
And, for the facilitators Sanne and Maartje organized a competition for the best participating community and for the best facilitator.
In january, three boardmembers of FPG (Foundation Partnership Ghana), Maartje Bos, Sanne Peters and Ruben Koeckhoven visited the CPYWD-projects in Ghana. During their two-week-stay they were hosted by Yakubu Iddrisu, director of CPYWD. Together with CPYWD many meetings were organized with the staff, the facilitators of the ASP’s (After School Programs), the beekeepers, and a mini-conference was held with local partners and potential partners. All these meetings were very fruitful: long-term visions were developed and short-term actionplans were worked out. But most impressive were the visits to the communities to see the ASP’s and to meet the beekeepers and see their (colonized!) hives!
Yesterday, Maartje Bos finished second in her category ‘Good’ at the Viva 400 votings for the most successful young women of 2011. After winner Dina-Perla Marciano she got the most votes. During a great women-only-dinner in Amsterdam, the winners were announced. Among the winners were celebs as Carice van Houten!
We congratulate Maartje with this great achievement and thank all the people who supported her by bringing their votes!
Phase 2 of our Beekeeping Project is completed. In this phase of the project, all the participants received their beehives and protective clothing. Furthermore they got all the basic trainings in beekeeping, and the Tahima center is now completed with honey- and wax production-equipment. Today Stichting Partnership Ghana sent their report of this phase to Impulsis.
Maartje is selected by the viva under the categorie ‘goed’ (good). Viva found her due to the second price she won for the environment award of the Yves Rocher Fondation. Vote for her via viva.nl. You do need to register first.
Thank you very much, we appreciate it a lot!
CPYWD is very happy to present her first newsletter of 2011, with a new look and feel. CPYWD, founded in Gha- na in 2006, has the vision of “Safe, just and sustain- able communities on the full and healthy participation of youth and women taking their rightful positions in deci- sion making and dignity”. With this vision, we’ve been trying hard in our range of activities, going from After School programs for the youth, to Beekeeping programs for Women. We are at an exciting place in our project as we come close to finishing our Discovery Centre, and are preparing to receive more international volunteers. We thank all for your support throughout the years. Please enjoy reading our newsletter.
In Bimbilla (Ghana) 150 women are trained as beekeepers and an organic Honey is build. Honey is healthy and beekeeping is environment friendly. Bees are necessary and important for the whole ecological cycle. Do you know that all over the world bees are dying by crowds? Luckily in Africa not yet.
Besides all the benefits for nature the women are able to generate an extra income by themselves, which enables them to send their children to school and get health insurance.
This film is made by Janka Burtzlaff, CPYWD volunteer in 2010
Learning can be fun!
Community Partnership for Youth and Women Development (CPYWD) organizes After school Programs in Tamale (Northern-Ghana) for the youth. Local community workers stimulate the children to express them selve, show their creativity, be self-confidence and critical. The local volunteers work use the PAC man Approach, Positivm, Activity & Creativity. The children who attend the programs are a mix of children who go to school and who don’t go to school. It stimulates the children to go to school and in the aftertoon they learn to bring the theory into practice. A beautiful combination! Schools, teachers, chiefs, parents and the local government are involved.
Partners! Supporters! Everyone interested!
Since 2007 the work of CPYWD Ghana has been supported via Stichting Ghana Haarlem. In 2011 it was time for a new step, the establishment of our own foundation, Stichting Partnership Ghana! This is the way to professionalize our work and to strenghten our Partnerships. Our final aim is that within 5-10 years CPYWD is a sustainable organisation without depending on European funds. A lot of things have been achieved the past 3 years.
Time for a party, are you joining us???
Everyone involved is welcome to our Ghanaian party. Via 2 short films of the projects in Ghana we will present our work with beautiful images made by the volunteer Janka Burtzlaff. But off course this is not all, we will enjoy African Percussion, Ghanaian snacks and drinks! Enough opportunities to interact and enjoy.
