OUR SOCIAL PROGRAMS
SFLIG through the support of SFLIGVolunteers placement runs a number of social interventions to support our communities especially girls.
Social Programs
MENTORSHIP/CHANGEMAKERS AMBASSADOR CLUB
Mentorship/Changemakers Ambassador Club Mentoring is a deliberate, purposeful, planned, intentional transfer of wisdom based on one’s life experience that happens through time. At SFLIG we believe that mentorship is desperately need in our society to bring change and also to encourage young girls living in deprive communities to do what they can do so that they don’t get ahead of their self and end up frustrated. We look for committed individuals who can be role models to such girls by mentoring them, morally, academically, spiritually, socially to make them believe in themselves to pursue their dreams irrespective of their social background and status. Clubs have been established in selected orphanage homes and communities called Chanagemakers Ambassador Clubs, where we meet these girls on regular bases to motivate them, support their education in cash and kind and also build a community of refugee for them.
MENSTRAL HYGEINE & SANITARY PAD BANK
The appearance of a girl’s menstrual period should be something that every girl should look out for since it comes to confirm womanhood and ability to have children but is not so for many girls in most rural parts of Ghana, the orphanage and poor homes.
These girls miss 5days of school every month because they can’t afford to buy sanitary towels to help hold the blood, they therefore resort to other means which is unhygienic bringing them lot of reproductive health issues like urinary tract infection and cervical cancer. Some of these girls uses old cloths, maize cobs, tissue paper, exercise books etc. which can’t hold the blood thereby making them soil themselves.
The fear of getting their clothes soil deter them from attending school for fear of their friends knowing that they are menstruating especially their male counterparts. This makes them unproductive since they can neither go to school nor go out of their homes.
This five days of no school makes it difficult for these girls to concentrate and match up to their other colleagues especially the males since they don’t get to learn or hear their teachers teach topics needed for a particular level. This lacking frustrate some of these girls to drop out of school.
As part of Solutions for Life Initiative Ghana (SFLIG) quest to “Make Every Life Count” SFLIG is seeking support to create a PAD BANK to provide sanitary towels for girls in the orphanages and selected communities at the beginning of every semester so they can stay focus on their studies, get their confidence built and for them to stand up to their male classmates academically.
SINGLE AND TEENAGE MOTHERS INITIATIVE
AT SFLIG we have realized that most often early mothers after they have put to birth are not allowed to get back to the classroom to continue their education since they are stigmatize as a bad influence to their other schoolmates and family members also don’t support them by encouraging them to go back to school or learn a vocation but rather push them to “compulsory adulthood” to fend for themselves and their babies.. We believe the many street children and vagabonds in the society are as a result of the lack of support for these mothers. SFLIG, we give them counseling to boost their confidence and reintegrate them back to their old self again through back to school or vocational training project that makes them independent.
Another aspect of our single mothers program is the support for mothers with “Special Needs” children. Children with special needs are mostly considered as a curse in our society, some are killed by relatives and others abandon in forest etc. Fathers of such children abandon them and don’t want anything to do with them as well as family members. This makes life very difficult for the mothers, in terms of taking care of the child since they end up not working because the child may mostly need their attention 24/7.
SFLIGvolunteers, therefore comes in to support these mothers with medications, training in vocational skills etc. to help them care for themselves and children.
BACK2SCHOOL INITIATIVE
Though basic education is free in Ghana to the senior high level, most children are still not able to go to school because their parents can’t afford school stationaries, uniforms, shoes and food for them. SFLIG therefore runs a Back2School initiative that supplies stationaries, and other school needs as well as supporting some of our girls in the tertiary level through in vocational skills and other disciplines.
To help us reach a large number of girls, we seek the support of benevolent individuals and organizations to join us keep girls at home.
We welcome individuals and organizations to support and donate into any of our social projects.
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Testimonials
Ghana, all in all, is an amazing country. Loads of friendly faces always smiling, and the people behind those smiles are always wanting to help. The city of Kumasi, with a population close to .
I spent three amazing weeks in Ghana; it was my first time volunteering abroad and what an unforgettable experience it was. I travelled to Ghana with a friend and we stayed with Sally and .
I spent three incredible weeks in the Ashanti region of Ghana teaching English and Maths at a local village school. It was an absolute pleasure to travel at such an affordable cost to do the .
The decision to volunteer and to give time, money and my heart to those who weren’t quite so lucky in life turned out to be an AMAZING experience that re-shaped my view of the .
Ghana stole my heart. I cannot explain how sacred this journey was. Not only did I become a member of a beautiful family of 50 children; but I gained a much better understanding of .
A few months ago, I took a blind leap, not knowing what to expect, and signed up to volunteer in Ghana for 2 months. I had never volunteered overseas and had never been to .
I spent a month living with a host family in Ghana when I was in high school, two years ago. It was the first time I had traveled alone to a foreign country. It .
You do a wonderful job with those kids that need us so much, and for the people in need all over the globe. I will definitely join you as a volunteer!
It's always a pleasure to work with these guys - they know what they want and that is why they achieve their goals. Thanks a lot for the team spirit and your work!
It's always a pleasure to work with these guys - they know what they want and that is why they achieve their goals. Thanks a lot for the team spirit and your work!
Ghana is a very special place! The people are generous, hospitable, open-hearted, and helpful. It's been called the "Gateway to Africa" and I really think that is really true.
Solutions for Life Initiative Ghana doesn't have much personnel, but they are professionals in the work they are doing. They concentrate to the work and you can feel free to ask them about the .
