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AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
To tackle social and environmental problems confronting our
nation by raising awareness among the population .
To help deprived people in the rural communities on undertake
development projects.
To educate the local people in skills that will enable self-reliance
leading to poverty reduction and advancement/social development.
To inculcate into the youth the spirit and the concept of voluntarism.
To sustain and to promote the Ghanaian culture by creating culture
exchange between Ghanaians and the rest of the world through
workcamping and other exchange programmes
AREA OF OPERATIONS
EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECTS __
SADEP undertakes the building of primary and vocational schools ,and
providing educational facilities to the deprived communities in order to
train the youth in employable skills and also to reduce the level of
illiteracy in our society.
AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY__
SADEP aims at establishing demonstration camps or farms to educate
farmers about organic farming techniques , including the use of
appropriate technology in an environmental friendly methods. It also
provides farming inputs and assistance to farming groups to improve on
their production thus helping reduce food insecurity and malnutrition
in the rural communities.
ENVIRONMENT AND ECO – TOURISM__ Many
communities in Ghana suffer from severe erosion , wind destruction and
poor rainfalls due to indiscriminate removal of trees. SADEP has plans
to increase sustainable fuel production (ie. Creation of wood logs for
cooking) through efficient use of the natural resources by establishing
nursery units or camps and environmental clubs , in strategically
placed schools and communities to serve as supply base of seedlings as
well as resource points for schools and communities interested in the
protection of the environment in general.
SADEP also undertake projects in the
area of Eco-tourism through expeditions annually by identifying and
collaborating with communities that lack the basic knowledge and
skills in protecting and developing these natural tourism potentials ,
such as ( water bodies , Historic caves , water falls ,mountains forest
and water carnal) etc.
INCOME GENERATING PROJECTS__ These
take various forms and are designed for people (youth) to receive
training in skills and provided with the essential materials /capital
for the start of their projects , this eventually will lead to economic
empowerment . SADEP also support groups and community initiated projects
especially women oriented ones.
HEALTH __ Periodically the
organization educate communities on the HIV/AIDS and other dangerious
diseases affecting our society. It also supply basic drugs and health
facilities in the rural communities.
RUNNING OF EXCHANGE PROGRAMMES__ In
the areas of work camps , Expeditions , culture , and Host parenting .
Apart from the Host parenting programme which runs through out the
year, the rest are organized only in summer and winter . Participants
must insure themselves before arriving in Ghana. SADEP should be
notified 7days ahead of the arrival of the participants . Volunteers
should arrived 2days before the star of the programmes. Volunteers from
non English speaking country like Italy , Spain and Asia will have the
opportunity to learn and improve on their basic English language .
QUALIFICATION__ Persons with sound
mind and of good health both professionals and non- professionals.
The participation fee charge
for all the exchange programme cares for the following; AND NOT
REFUNDABLE.
- Administration
- Accommodation
- Feeding
- Transportation
- Excursion (Tour)
ALL ITEMS FOR CAMPING UNDER WORK CAMPS ARE NEEDED
FOR ALL EXCHANGE PROGRAMMES
FUNDING- Funding of SADEP is mainly sourced from the annual
dues of members, the participation fees of the exchange programmes
organized, donations from friends, sympathizers and sister organizations.
ACCREDITATION AND AFFILIATIONS-
The organization is registered as a Non Governmental Organization and
incorporated under the company code of 1963 (Acts 179) by the Registrar
General Department of Ghana under the name of SOLIDARITY FOR AFRICAN
DEVELOPMENT. The Ho District Assembly, Volta Regional Association of
N.G.O.s (VORANGO) and the Department of Social Welfare which is the
authorize body monitoring all the NGOs in Ghana under the Ministry of
Social Welfare. SADEP -GHANA has sister organization in ITALY and
ENGLAND. It also has representatives in Germany and Canada.
SOLIDARITY OF AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT-
It is an association founded in 2002 and registered at ONLUS in 2003. It
works together with a Ghanaian NGO (SADEP- GHANA) at a small developing
projects in rural villages in Ghana.
Accomplished projects
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*Rabbit Farming
*A Primary School Building
PROJECTS IN PROGRESS - Food
processing plant, Gari from Cassava.
SADEP ITALIA and
SADEP GHANA plan and support together
developing projects with the purpose of giving the population means to
self improvement of the life conditions in their communities.
SADEP- ITALIA has different activities.
* Fund raising to finance the projects chosen and planned by SADEP-
Ghana and the population ( through social banquets, chorus and music
groups concert, selling of Ghanaian handicraft, and free offer.....).
*Documentation and information on the projects and geographical,
political and cultural aspects of Ghana, in particularly in
involved areas.
*Promotion of works and cultural camps in Ghana in the areas where the
projects are taking place.
Activities of SADEP- ITALIA is based on friendship with SADEP- GHANA. In
summer 2001 two Italian guys met in Ghana in a common concert about the
future of the Earth and Mankind, they decided to start a co-operation
Ghana - Italy with a first project in a village in the Volta Region
building and organizing a Rabbit Farming.
The reasons behind the activities of SADEP Italia members are:
The acknowledgement of the interdependence of of people and resources of
the Earth.
The wish to know distant realities , a very different from their own
ones, victims of injustice and iniquities by the rich world.
The will to cerate bound between people from different part of the world
and the possibilities of exchange materials and non- material goods with
the aim of mutual enrichment.
After information on SADEP- ITALY and ENGLAND.
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