Overview of Full Life Foundation Ghana.
Full Life Foundation (FLF), a Human Development Charity is a Not-For-Profit Non-Governmental Organization made up of a team of individuals who work on programmes designed to promote access to education for a quality life.
Full Life Foundation was founded in 2012 by Ms. Emma Ghartey at Ahanta-Adjumako in the Ahanta West District along the coastal belt of the Western Region of Ghana. Emma grew up to witness a community that suffered the devastating impact of poverty on the lives of the people and especially on the educational aspirations of the children within the community and its environs. Having survived the system, Emma was able to make it to the University of Ghana to take a degree in Nursing. She currently holds a master’s degree in Public Health (MPH) from the University of Ghana. She is currently a Principal Nurse at the University of Ghana Hospital and has traveled widely across the globe. Emma Ghartey therefore is passionate about helping similar children to pursue their dreams by giving them the opportunity to go to school.
OBJECTIVES
- Promote school enrolment and access through collaboration and advocacy
- Ensure quality education and fruitful completion of children in deprived communities
- Offer educational Counselling and Guidance to the youth
- Support business enterprise development and career placement for youths
- Empower individuals and communities with the knowledge to make lifestyle choices that will positively influence their health
Full Life Foundation operates mainly in the coastal belt of the western region of Ghana.
Economically, the inhabitants of the coastal areas western are mostly peasant farmers with very small leaseholds/farm sizes, or fisher folks who continue to use primitive ways of fishing. They derive meager income from their farm produce which is heavily dependent on the natural rainfall.
However, due to climatic change and its resultant unpredictable rainfall, poverty and economic hardships have been the result over the years. The women are mostly housewives and support their husbands on the farms. Others are fishmongers or petty traders.
The wages they receive are inadequate to cater to their immediate family needs let alone see their children through school. Moreover, some of these families have many children of school-going age.
They are therefore confronted with the stark reality of how to continue to look after all these children in school. Since the family income is inadequate, the inhabitants are more concerned with “keeping body and soul” rather than seeing their children through school. This is a choice they have to make. In the end, their children do not have the opportunity to attend school to unearth their potential. The future becomes bleak and unpredictable.
These children eventually grow up to become laborers, peasants farmers, and galamsey (small-scale mining)boys while some of the girls turned up as young uneducated mothers; thus beginning another cycle of poverty and ignorance.
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