Urban Poor Child Organization
Informations de contact
- Addresse Postale: P. O. Box MP1039, Mamprobi - Accra
- Emplacement du bureau: Dasoman-Agege Last Stop, Beach Road Adjacent Church of Pentecost
- Région : Greater Accra
- Pays: Ghana
- Ville: Accra
- Téléphone: +233 277820161
- Fax:
- E-Mail *: urbanpoorchildorg@hotmail.com
- Site web: urbanpoorchildorg.wordpress.com
Activités
- Vision: Our vision is to bring inclusive affordable and accessible education and soft skills to the door step of the needy, to promote the welfare of vulnerable and neglected kids and promoting good environment and safety at Gbegbeyise and its environs.
- Mission: Making our humble society fit for children from 0-17 to grow and develop. To create chance for the underprivileged families and Communities through education.
- Domaines d'interventions : Education / Education,Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) / Objectifs de Développement Durable (ODD),Youth Empowerment / Emancipation des Jeunes,Child Care Services / Services de Garde d’Enfants,Poverty Reduction / Réduction de la Pauvreté,Gender Equality / Egalité des Sexes
- Cible: Vulnrable Groups
- Objectifs principaux : To promote the welfare of vulnerable & neglected kids. To help needy youth & children to have education. To educate children and parents (advocacy). To help children to help themselves by acquiring skills. To help alleviate poverty through education
- Compétences principales: Advocacy / Plaidoyer,Awareness Creation & Sensitization / Prise de Conscience et Sensibilisation,Youth Capacity Development
- Engagement du gouvernement:
Plus d'information
- Exploits actuels ou majeurs : ACHIEVEMENTS Currently, UPCO has supported seven thousand, four hundred and fifty-eighty (7,458) children in various training at which they are now working on their own. Through UPCO, nine (9) deprived communities within and outside Accra metropolis have benefited from school building support. Through our outreach programme, personal hygiene in the deprived communities has improved tremendously. Through the support of well-wishers and sympathizers a good number of youth have gone through various activities of their choice of vocations such as masonry, carpentry, mechanics, hairdressing, sewing, and are now doing well with their families. About 75% of parents and families in our operational communities have had the opportunity to enroll their children in school. Rampant sex and with it, teenage pregnancy cases and frequent pre-death among young women have been dropped to 1%. General outreach on environment in the slums and rural oriented communities has improved steadily. Creation of inclusive and affordable main stream education for 350 out of school children.
- Conseil d'administration:
- Effectif du conseil d'administration : 7
- Expertise du conseil d'admnistration: Social Workers, Bursar, Nurses, Matron
- Plan stratégique organisationnel:
- Directeur/trice de l'Organisation: Gideon Kweku Markin
- Nom de la personne contact: Gideon Kweku Markin
- Position de la personne contact: Director
- Effectif du personnel: 36
- Effectif d'hommes: 11
- Effectif de femmes : 25