EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Community
Aid for Rural Development (CARD) was created in January, 2008 and
registered under the Ghana’s
Companies Code as a non-profit making corporate organization limited by
guarantee. CARD has an aim of empowering the
vulnerable (women, children and persons with disabilities), by fighting the
ever-increasing rate of HIV/AIDS, falling standard of education, low awareness
on basic human rights, poor sanitation and unhygienic conditions as well as the
upsurge of poverty evident within communities in the Northern sector in
particular and Ghana as whole. The aid programme has a focused of empowering
and making those marginalized especially women, children and persons with
disabilities agents of their own development. This we believed will accelerate
and ensure speedy and sustainable reduction of acute poverty ensure the
attainment of the Millennium Development Goals of reducing extreme hunger and
malnutrition, access to primary education and health care, gender
equity, promotion of democratic rights and eradication of HIV/AIDS, inter alia,
by 2015. Hence, we are requesting to forming
partnerships and collaborations with Decentralized agencies and departments as
well as NGOs in implementation of our programmes, projects and activities.
Institutional Background Information
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Name of the Organization
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Community Aid for Rural Development
(CARD)
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Type of organization
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Local Based Non-Governmental
Organization
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Contact Person/Number
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Programme Coordinator
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Location
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Hamile Town,
Lambussie-Karni District, U/W/R
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Mailing
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P .O. Box 12, Hamile, Upper West Region
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Telephone/Mobile
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0243-863296
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Email
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cardpot7@yahoo.com / info.card@yahoo.com
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Number of Management Team
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Six (6) Core Staff
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Number of Volunteers
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Six (6) Impact Makers
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Number of Board of Directors
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Eight (8) Members
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Number of women in the board
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Two (2) women
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Interest Groups
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Women and Girls, Children and
Persons with Disabilities.
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Focus of operation/future plan
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Right to Education, health,
livelihood empowerment, women’s rights, enterprise development, water,
sanitation and hygiene, Village Savings and Associations among others.
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Our Vision: Seeing a Ghana where every human being
enjoys the right to live a decent and prosperous life.
Our
Mission: To work in partnership with NGOs and other organizations to ensure
a sustainable increase in the welfare of women, children and persons with
disabilities through efficient resource allocation to reduce acute poverty and
restore dignity among all.
Strategic Goals and Objectives:
A: Educational Empowerment
Program/Activity Areas
- Empower individuals (brilliant but needy students) through
scholarships for higher education.
- Whip-up the interest and sentiments of students and parents on
education.
- Offer computer literacy
training to enhance teachers and students opportunities in the global world of Information Communication
Technology
- Assist and support
students with educational materials such as stationery, uniforms, desks,
infrastructure among others.
B: Gender Sensitivity and Mainstreaming
Program/Activity
Areas
- To implement gender sensitivity programs to promote gender
equity and equality in all spheres of social endeavors.
- To promote effective women participation in decision-making in
structures of democracy.
- To raise awareness and sensitize communities on the
conventions, protocols and ratifications that Ghana is a signatory to, which
concerns gender sensitivity and mainstreaming.
C: Child Rights Advocacy and Protection
Program/Activity Areas
- Promote the rights of children to participate in
decision-making.
- To protect children against child abuse such as child labour
and child trafficking.
- To raise awareness and sensitize communities on the
conventions, protocols and ratifications that Ghana is a signatory to, which
concerns child rights issues.
- To ensure that all children of school going age are enrolled
and retained in schools.
D: Peoples Living with Disability
Program/Activity Areas
- Bring together and empower all persons with disabilities
against social exclusion.
- To support and assist disabled people to participate as equal
members of their families, communities, and societies.
- Advocate strongly for the rehabilitation of PLWD and those who
are mentally challenged.
- To advocate for the passage and implementation of the
Disability and Mental Health bills.
E: HIV & AIDS and Access to Primary
Health Care
Program/Activity Areas
- Actively participate in the global fight against HIV/AIDS by;
- Facilitating and supporting the diffusion of
information about the persistent increase of the disease and emphasize on
preventive measures, behavioral change, reproductive health education
among others.
- Reaching out to HIV-infected and affected widows
and orphans and encourage as many people as possible to take the
Voluntary Test and Counseling.
- To increase access to care, support and treatment for People
Living with HIV&AIDS.
- To reduce significantly the social, religious, cultural,
economic and political barriers that makes people more vulnerable to
HIV/AIDS.
- Promote women and children access to primary health care including
Sexual and Reproductive Health Services, maternal and child health, and
prevention of malaria, TB, Hypathesis, Breast cancer among others.
F: Food Security, Environmental Protection
and Climate Change
Program/Activity
Areas
- To promote sustainable dry season farming and animal rearing as
an income-generating systems and for food security in rural communities.
- To actively participate in mobilizing rural women for the
collection, processing and marketing of sheanuts.
- To work vigorously and in partnership towards climate change
resilience and vulnerability reduction
- Work with and assist small holder agricultural farmers in rural
communities to increase production and household incomes.
- To adopt and implement the Village Savings and Loans Model as
means of enhancing access to micro-credit/small loans for rural women.
- To ensure sustainable environmental conservation and protection.
G: Water, Sanitation And Hygiene
Programs/Activity
Areas
- To intensified
support for and access to clean and good drinking water for rural
communities in an effort to reducing the risk of Guinea worm and other
water borne infestations.
- To ensure that most deprived communities gain
access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education.
- Implement a holistic community and school led
total sanitation and hygiene program to improve the lives of rural people.
H:
Institutional Sustainability
Program/Activity Areas
- To expand the funding and resource mobilization base of CARD,
to enable it meet management, coordination and operation costs.
- To increase the capacity of staff to enable them meet emerging
development challenges in communities in particular and the country as a
whole.
- To strengthen the capacity of CBOs, women-based
groups, youth groups, farmers etc to be able to perform effectively in
communities.
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