Youth alive ghana

Youth Alive - Ghana

Youth Alive, formally called the Tamale Street Children’s Project, was an ActionAid Ghana (AAG) initiative. The Tamale Street Children’s Project was established in 1995 by AAG with the aim to offering street children a second chance at normal growth and development. The project was designed, at its inception, to develop into a local NGO autonomous of ActionAid in the near future. Consequently, after six years of operation as an Action Aid project, the project finally registered as an autonomous local NGO in January 2002, under the name Youth Alive.

Youth Alive, as an organisation, now works with street and vulnerable children/youth in the poorest part of Ghana, i.e. the Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions. Available statistics indicate that 9, 8 and 7 out of every ten people are below the poverty line in the Upper East, Upper West and Northern Regions respectively.

Working definitionA street child is any child who spends majority of his/her time outside the home (on the street) engaging in economic activities for his/her SURVIVAL Vision: A Ghana without street children where every child can live a life of dignity and self worth.

MissionYouth Alive exists to alleviate the plight of street and vulnerable children/youth in Ghana through promoting their active participation and the building of relationships with them and in collaboration with their parents, guardians, local authorities, communities, central government, relevant NGOs and the general public.

Currently Youth Alive is supporting over 400 street and vulnerable children in school at various levels including university, training college, senior high school, junior high school, and primary school. Additionally we are supporting close to 200 street youth (mostly teenagers 15-19 years) to learn trades of their choice, eg carpentry, auto fitting, welding, straightening & spraying, dressmaking, hairdressing, local cloth (northern kente) weaving, sign writing, electrical engineering, etc.

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