Deutsche Bank COY Project Pack

AfriKids & Deutsche Bank 2010 We promise to Make the most of an incredible fundraising opportunity that will have an enormous impact on AfriKids and our 100 000 beneficiaries impact on AfriKids and our 100,000 beneficiaries Use the funds we raise through Deutsche Bank efficiently, transparently and accountably Ensure that children’s lives are turned around ‐ nsure that children s lives are turned around for for good ‐ good thanks thanks to Deutsche Bank to eutsche ank employees Transform the way your staff engage with and perceive charity, making them feel valued, appreciated and in touch

Project Examples Read online at http://issuu.com/afrikids/docs/db_coy_project_pack Registered Charity Number 1093624

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About AfriKids What we do

AfriKids is a non governmental organisation which supports child rights and community development work in northern Ghana through our local partner AfriKids Ghana. AfriKids (UK) raises the money, AfriKids Ghana delivers the projects. Our philosophy is to

Listen to what a community knows it needs y Empower them to make the necessary changes themselves Ensure absolute sustainability AfriKids is a unique organisation in both the UK third sector and id i t ti ld l t it f t wider international development community for two reasons:

We operate a one child at a time policy Rather than spreading our work across a continent or focusing on a single ‘headline’ issue, AfriKids has invested time and resources in making real and fundamental change to the lives of the most disadvantaged children in northern Ghana. Once in our care, AfriKids works with each child, their family, community and government to ensure their life is turned around for good

We are achieving genuine sustainability It is our goal that by 2018 AfriKids Ghana will be funding itself through locally generated income, at which point AfriKids will shut its fundraising operations in the UK. In 2009 AfriKids Ghana are already funding 15% of their own costs through the profits of the AfriKids Medical Centre

AfriKids Income 2002‐9

£1,400,000.00 £1,200,000.00 £1,000,000.00 £1,000,000.00 £800,000.00 £600,000.00 £400,000.00 £200,000.00 £‐

AfriKids Expenditure 2008 4% 15% Administration Fundraising Projects 81%

International Recognition International Recognition The International Service Human Rights Awards  Winners of the Defence of the Rights of Children, 2007  Finalists for the Defence of the Rights of Women, 2008 The Ghana Professional Achievers Awards  Winners of the Most Outstanding Contribution to Ghana, 2004 Ghanaian Government Ministry of Manpower, Youth and Employment  Outstanding contribution towards the Outstanding contribution towards the Elimination of Child labour in Ghana AfriKids Ghana have a team of 120 local people who deliver the projects and over 100,000 beneficiaries across the north of the country. In the UK we have a team of six who enable this work; UK we have a team of six who enable this work; two of the UK team dedicate their time to project support, the other four focus primarily on fundraising.

The AfriKids (UK) team are all passionate people committed to this specific organisation’s mission rather than career fundraisers or project managers. th th f d i j t The charity was started by volunteers and all the senior managers joined this way. We have learned since day one from necessity to develop all the skills needed to make a successful charity. This has helped develop our reputation for professionalism and personalisation in our funding and project partnerships. h The clarity of focus that aiming to do ourselves out of business provides drives us to make prudent business decisions and ensure we secure the best value for money for our supporters.

About AfriKids The AfriKids and Deutsche Bank Education Programme AfriKids’ Education Programme costs £525,000 a year to run and benefits over 57,000 people‐ that’s £9.20 per person. It is intended to compliment the government’s services to help children access education and achieve in the environment that is right for them This can mean vocational training for them. This can mean vocational training, specialist skill training, full time education, transitional classes etc. Everyone who gives, however much, will have an impact.

School uniform £6 Fieldworker salary £3 000 Fieldworker salary £3,000 Secondary school fees £150 Bicycle to get to school £45 Hairdressing tools £75 F l f fi ld Fuel for fieldworker bike £125 k bik £125 Nursery teacher salary £666 Teacher training £484 Fieldworker’s motorbike £800 Literacy class £4.80 School sandals £1 Monthly lunch allowance £12 Child rights quiz £30 School child rights debate £15 Child rights festival £633 PC £450 g Regional football tournament £685 School Christmas party £166 Academy expansion £10,000 Exercise books £6 Graduation ceremony £150 Graduation ceremony £150 Exam Fees £30 Carpentry tools £130 Electrician tools £200

The School of Night Rabbits £7,500 annual running cost

The School of Night Rabbits runs two nights a week in Bolgatanga. After schools have closed and the street children’s last g g g g chance of work has left with the travelling market they make their way to their classes next to the AfriKids Academy. They learn English and Maths, they learn about the environment around them, the society they live in and their rights in their vernacular language Fra Fra. Once a week they play games and they always receive food, water to wash and recognition of their hard work. Every child who attends classes consecutively three months in a row receives an AfriKids t‐shirt.

Practical skills and small recognitions changes life for these children. They have been taught to beg, to steal, to live outside y g g g y, y of society. The School of Night Rabbits gives them dignity, a sense of self worth and a chance at a life beyond subsistence.

Any child with the capacity and commitment to do well in school is supported to take on full time education. Older children ready to move into work or vocational training are assisted and mentored. 100 children a year go through the school, 100 lives transformed.

“If you tell any child over and over again that they are worthless and a menace to society, over time they will thl d t i t ti th ill come to believe it, not only will they lose respect for themselves but they will also loose respect for everyone and everything. This is the making of criminals, not the street, the street is the place that allows them to eat” AfriKids’ fieldworker AfriKids fieldworker Emman is 14, he is an orphan. He works through the night in a jewellery workshop; using battery acid and live currents to coat lead earrings with thin layers of the gold that is mined illegally nearby. Emman was a tough boy to reach; he has fended for himself for years and mistrusts adults Now though he attends years and mistrusts adults. Now though, he attends the School of Night Rabbits two nights a week where he is allowed to be a child; to catch up on what he missed in school in his own language, to socialise with his friends and to eat a decent meal. Emman’s ambition is to work hard and start his own jewellery business, without child labour.

The AfriKids Academy £100,000 expansion and annual running cost

AfriKids Ghana is headquartered in Bolgatanga and its work spreads across th the northern regions th i of Ghana. It is the only NGO of its size to be headquartered there in what is a widely neglected widely neglected, poverty stricken corner of Ghana. The percentage of the population who live in poverty is 71% and poverty is 71% and upwards.

The AfriKids Academy provide IT training to up to 1,000 school children per year. It also trains teachers in IT and earns some of its own running costs by offering fee paying classes and secretarial services to the public IT is part of the national curriculum in classes and secretarial services to the public. IT is part of the national curriculum in Ghana and is essential to entering tertiary education or breaking out of subsistence agriculture and into the jobs market. In 2010 the Academy will scale up to open its doors to hundreds more children.

“I must say the opening of IT Centre has not only brought IT education to the doorstep of the people of this community but is also bridging the gap between the fast paced IT i innovations around the globe and the way of life over here. ti d th l b d th f lif h I remember the first I remember the first

time I saw a computer was in Senior Secondary School. When my teacher mentioned a mouse I was looking under my desk and preparing a stick to strike. But I was wrong, I was actually holding it! I mean I was so green, but things will be different for the next generation now, I am introducing children to IT at primary school, and in one of the most disadvantaged am introducing children to IT at primary school, and in one of the most disadvantaged communities. It is great and I give the sponsors of this project my personal two thumbs UP. God richly bless you all.”

Albert, IT Assistant

Operation Sirigu £25,000 annual running cost

Winners of an inter‐ child rights h ld h club debate Operation Sirigu tackles the problems surrounding the belief in spirit children in the rural communities of the Kassena Nankana District. The project promotes women’s rights through micro‐finance and community health talks and it improves p p j their healthcare so that fewer children are born with complications and fewer mothers die in child birth. The project also works directly with the concoction men responsible for killing ‘spirit children’ and has formed an association of campaigning concoction men who are helping to stamp out infanticide.

Perhaps the most active participants in the project are the children themselves. Through child rights clubs in which they campaign with drama, song and dance and through which they drive the debate forward with competitive quizzes and inter school debates, they are pushing the agenda of their elders to include their rights and those of children less fortunate than themselves than themselves.

“In a patrilineal society such as ours, women and children have little say in decision making process. If a child is born with such process. If a child is born with such deformities such as a swollen head, milk teeth, disfigured limbs etc he/she is branded a spirit child and subjected to elimination by death through the administration of some prepared "concoctions". By the cultural belief of our people, if the child drinks the preparation and dies then indeed the said child is a spirit preparation and dies, then, indeed the said child is a spirit.

However our uneducated parents fail to accept

the reality that there is no living creature that can take in poison and will still live normally.

The important thing our parents and opinion leaders fail to accept is that these deformities can be prevented if pregnant accept is that these deformities can be prevented if pregnant mothers seek maternal care, hence killing of innocent and defenseless children is not right” From the essay ‘A Heed to the Cry of the Defenseless Child’ by members of the Sirigu Child Rights Club

Operation Sirigu Example Budget‐ 2010

“A father came up to me last week and said that when his daughter marries he will send the dowry to AfriKids. He says we are the ones who have added value and meaning to her life and so it is we who should receive the dowry and decide what is done with it” Raymond Ayinne – Project Manager

“That’s one thing with AfriKids I see, they teach you how to

survive before they give money to you. Others would push the money to you, what happens, no problem” Frank Adaabre, AfriKids Ghana partner staff

Operation Fresh Start £75,000 annual running cost Operation Fresh Start is a ground breaking project that addresses the flow of young people from northern Ghana to the streets of the southern cities. Some are trafficked, some go by choice, all are failed by what they meet on arrival. On the streets lives of drugs, indentured slavery, prostitution and crime threaten to drag these young people down and few ever return home. home Until 2005 government and NGO projects to resettle these young people had failed. That year we launched Operation Fresh Start, to do three things; Resettle children from the slums of Kumasi with their families and support them through education or vocational families and support them through education or vocational training Raise awareness in the communities about child trafficking and the situation in Kumasi so that young people can make informed decisions about their life Encourage collaboration and replication between NGOs to tackle the problems of migration and trafficking So far the project has resettled 155 children, raised the understanding of over 45,000 people and 150 NGOs. Next year we will extend the project to give more young people a Fresh Start in life.

"II am very happy that at long last I am home. I never thought am very happy that at long last I am home. I never thought that I would come home and be in a trade. I have a trade that I am proud of now. I know that AfriKids will provide what Ineed.

“I am so happy to be in training now.

Besides the training I am benefitting a lot from the project. I know that I will forever smile.”

Teni Atubga, Operation Fresh Start beneficiary

Orphaned as an infant Julie, right, spent her Orphaned as an infant Julie right spent her childhood yo‐yo‐ing between the streets of Bolgatanga, Accra and Kumasi. Having narrowly escaped sale for body parts Julie reached her turning point in 2006 when she made it back to Bolgatanga. Three years on she is pictured here at the car‐spraying shop she now manages.

In Kumasi you didn't know if there was a tomorrow and you didn't care. Now I have a home and I know I have a future. In Kumasi no‐one cares about your future now AfriKids does They give you advice cares about your future, now AfriKids does. They give you advice to keep you on the right track. Because of AfriKids I have

a tomorrow“ Agnes, Operation Fresh Stat Beneficiary