Projects
The projects Future Hope People develops, funds and carries out are small projects in local village communities. The basic principle we pursue is helping people to help themselves, i.e., we fund building materials, provide guidance and support and overlook the project. Our projects are aimed at improving and building educational facilities and support street work with children and teenagers.
To give you an overview over our projects, we limited the information on this page to a short summary and three pictures per project. If you want to receive more information or pictures for one or more projects, please do not hesitate to get in contact with us!
Current projects
Project 2011: Volunteer House
Our organization has seen a lot of help from volunteers from Germany in the last years. Being a small organization, we often did only have limited possibilities of accomodation. This is going to change in the future because our new project is the building of a house for volunteers. It will also be used for storage and as the official office of Future Hope People in Kissi. Completion is planned for 2012.
Projekt 2010/2011: Bau einer Computerschule
Our current project is the construction of a computer school in Kissi/Ghana.
After completion, the computer school will serve four schools in the area and give the teachers and pupils the possibility to learn to work with a computer and the Internet. This school will be unique in the area. The project consists of two stages: after the first stage, the structural brickwork, was completed in 2009, the second phase has started in early 2010, which consists of interior fittings and furniture.
You can have a look at the project description (in German) here.
Completed projects
Project 2008 I: Manufacturing of chairs and tables for a school
Our construction project 2008, the manufacturing of 120 school chairs and tables for the Kissi E/A school, was completed successfully in September 2008.
The incentive for this project was the insufficient number of chairs and tables in the class rooms of the Kissi E/A school. Many children had to sit on the floor during class. Now that the new furniture was provided, each child has its own seat and chair.
All furniture was manufactured by the local carpenter's shop in Kissi. Future Hope People's responsibility was the organization and transport of the building materials. The cost of the project was approx. 2,200 Euro. We want to thank all donators and supporters of this project!
You can find more information about this project on the project page at Betterplace.
Project 2008 II: Youth club in Kissi
In 2008 Future Hope People partnered with the Kissi E/A school to found a youth club, where two to three times a week about 25 children and teenagers meet.
The purpose and goal of the youth club is to give those children a place they can always come to and to organize activities together. While the children do sports and go on excursions, they also learn to read and write. Under direction of Mr. Smeed, a voluntary assistant of Future Hope People, a dancing group was founded for the Yam festival which performed with great success. Volunteers from Germany support the project regularly and take part in planning and executing the activities.
The plan for the future is to found more youth clubs in neighboring communities.
Project 2007: Construction of sanitary buildings for two schools
Many schools in Ghana do not have any sanitary facilities or they are in a very poor condition. Fact is however that toilets are equally important for a functioning school like class rooms. That is why Future Hope People took on the construction of sanitary facilities in the schools of the communities of Kissi and Takinta. Both facilities were completed in 2007.
Project 2006: Construction of a school
Education is a valuable asset everywhere in the world. In a developing nation like Ghana, where 38% of the population are below 15 years of age, it is even more important. School buildings in Ghana are mostly simple and functional, consisting of three class rooms in a one story building. The number of children in a class is 50 or more. Unfortunately many schools do not have enough class rooms to accommodate all children.
That is why Future Hope People decided in 2005 on its own initiative to build a school in Kissi, its main location. The school building consists of five class rooms and a faculty room. The construction costs were approx. 10,000 Euros, a sum that seems low for Western standards considering all construction costs were covered. The community of Kissi on the other hand could have never afforded such a sum. On 8 July 2006 the inauguration ceremony was held which the minister of state attended.