FAMILIES OF TODAY FOR TOMORROW "A Child's Smile"

 Families of Today for Tomorrow believes in building tomorrow’s families today, starting by enabling every child everywhere to see and experience happiness in the simple things life can offer. In line with our objectives, we have embarked on a mission to help address basic needs of children in African starting in Ghana.

 Our executive director, Mrs. Ama Owusu, has gone on a mission trip to Ghana to speak with poor schools, their teachers and school administrators about their situation and the simple things that can make a difference for them. Suffice it to say what she heard and witnessed truly often brought her to tears – literally. Indeed, without help both the present and future of these children is bleak, difficult and without hope.

 We are, however, happy to report that during our mission trip we were able to distribute athletic uniforms, test books and other supplies received from donors in Canada to pupils in a number of the schools, hospitals and Churches visited.  But this is just the beginning to the kind of the support we could together provide to make a real difference in the lives of these children. Indeed, we have now embarked on a full-fledged mission project dubbed, “A Child’s Smile”. This project is aimed at responding directly to the basic needs expressed by the pupils, teachers and administrators we visited in Ghana.

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 The Needs:

Just imagine, that your little Johnny or Suzie (junior in kindergarten) five or six years old awakening to a beautiful day in African with a brilliant sunrise, walks the five or more kilometers to school on bare feet. He arrives at a school without;

1.       Educational Materials; Most community schools do not have books library or even the daily required class exercise books. Some kindergarten pupils learn how to write their numbers and alphabets on bare floors with chalk, whiles the senior pupils writes on leaflets of paper. 

2.      Technology; These schools have no computers or left along computer-labs or visual education equipments ie electronic or otherwise. Therefore pupils lacks technology know-how and are not in touch with the rest of the world.

3.      Unhealthy Conditions; Most of these African children are from impoverished homes; they go to school with no proper shoes and have barely any or little clothing.

4.      Teachers Poor Conditions: Teachers do not have enough teaching materials. They also do not have teachers’ lounges; therefore, use bamboo huts as lounges. 

5. Unconducive Educational Environment; Children attending school in uncompleted buildings. Subject to heavy rains and the sun. As if that is not enough; Animals like pigs and goats also shares these uncompleted classrooms with the pupils, leaving their feces, smell and stanches behind for the pupils to clean before classes can begin. These same schools lack proper drinking water and good sanitary facilities

 Watch Video "A Child's Smile"  A Visit to some schools in Ghana