ADF

Our recent and current projects involve improving Basic Education in the village by developing the human resource base and the infrastructure in the only Primary and Junior School in the village.

Human Resource Development

ADF is sponsoring some needy but brilliant children in the school.

• With the help of individuals and organisations ADF has provided books, stationary and furniture to the school.
• ADF providing financial assistance to the teachers who are poorly paid to encourage them to remain in the village.
• ADF has instituted annual speech and prize giving day to recognise and award the outstanding children in the school.

Infrastructure

With the assistance from the Central Baptist church, England and the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Clara, California, the ADF built a modern Library and IT centre with 20 computers for the School in August 2005. A group of 17 students and young adult from the Central Baptist Church spent three weeks in the village assisting the local team to help complete the project.

• The IT centre has been connected to the internet with funds provided by the Central Baptist Church.
• Village Volunteers provided equipment and cable for networking of the computers in the school's newly built IT centre.

Preventive Health Care Program

With the support of The Infanta Malaria Prevention Foundation (IMPF), a non-governmental organisation, malaria prevention and treatment program has been established in Atorkor.   Atorkor Village in the Volta Region, Ghana was selected as an ideal place to begin such a program, because of the prevalence of mosquitoes in the surrounding areas.

This initiative began by spraying the village with insecticide and larvaecide.  This spraying exercise is to be repeated at least three times in the course of one year.

• Mosquito nets treated with insecticide were distributed at a nominal price of five thousand Cedis (less than one US dollar), unlike the usual cost of sixty thousand cedis (equivalent of about US$7) in the shops and markets.    

• Doctors and pharmacists were brought to the village to examine all children under 5 years of age for symptoms of malaria and were treated if there were cases of active malaria present. 

• A group of adults from the village were trained to re-treat nets with insecticide in order to prolong the life of the net.   

• A school curriculum was written for the village school. This malaria project was taught over the period of four weeks and culminated with an assembly of the villagers, where the students taught everyone the basic facts about malaria and it's prevention.    

• The school processed Neem tree leaves as a low cost product which can be used as a larvaecide.  Trials are now underway to determine the efficacy of this product. 

• One microscope has been made available to be used to teach the students (500) how to recognize the larvae in stagnant water, as well as to recognise the female Anophelese  mosquito, because it is the female, who passes the malaria parasite from one person to another.

• Launch of sanitation program - regular cleaning of the beach and other parts of the village