Annual Report 2015

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General information

Name Emo Foundation

Short Emo Foundation is a non-governmental organization

(NGO) aimed to create an inclusive global society by

creating opportunities for disadvantaged youth and

deprived communities in and around Kpando.

Foundation date 6 June 2015

Form NGO

Category Welfare and development

Registration RGD nr: CG165402015 DSW nr: TIN nr: C000518746X

Adress

Emo House KGS-A 095 Kpando Volta Region Ghana P.O. Box 362 Kpando

Contacts Luc Somers (Ghana): 054 516 11 60 (Belgium): 0032 485 51 10 46 Abdul Rahman Dauda (Alfa): 026 376 67 99 Matthew Owusu (Kobi): 020 253 89 07

Bank Account ADB Kpando

Facebookpage www.facebook.com/emofoundation

Logo

The wisdom knot (Nyansapo) is the symbol

of wisdom, ingenuity, intelligence and

patience.

This symbol conveys the idea that a wise

person has the capacity to choose the best

means to attain a goal. Being wise implies

broad knowledge, learning and experience,

and the ability to apply such faculties to

practical ends.

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Content General information .................................................................................................... 2 About Emo Foundation NGO ...................................................................................... 4 From the Chairman ..................................................................................................... 5 Our values .................................................................................................................. 6

Structure of the Organization ...................................................................................... 7 Board of trustees ................................................................................................................. 7 Director and Management Team ........................................................................................ 7 Staff Members .................................................................................................................... 7

1. Education ................................................................................................................ 9 1.1. Construction 6 class rooms primary school Gadza...................................................... 9 1.2. Renovation and extension primary school Dafor ........................................................ 9 1.3. Scholarships ................................................................................................................. 9

2. Apprentiship and start up ........................................................................................ 9 3. Health Care and Social Welfare ........................................................................... 10

3.1. Health Care .................................................................................................................... 10 3.2. Social Welfare ............................................................................................................... 10

4. Sports ................................................................................................................... 11 5. Culture .................................................................................................................. 11

6. Visitors and volunteers ......................................................................................... 13 6.1. Emo House .................................................................................................................... 13

6.2. Volunteers ..................................................................................................................... 13 6.3. Guiding visitors ............................................................................................................. 13

7. Financial statements 2015 .................................................................................... 14 8. Forecast 2016 ....................................................................................................... 15

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About Emo Foundation NGO

Our Vision

The best way to establish a developed Ghana is to reinforce the transition of the country into

an open, democratic society with free permanent organizations and independent government

institutions. We want to help to obtain this by creating a larger civil society with conscious

citizens.

Our Mission

Our mission is to create an inclusive global society by creating opportunities for

disadvantaged youth and deprived communities in and around Kpando.

Our Objectives

Improving education

o Maintenance, renovating and building school infrastructure

o Scholarships for secundary and tertiary level education

o Improving quality of education through better teaching and learning methods

Creating employment

o “Start Up” small agriculture and business projects

o Provide access to vocational skills

Support health care

o Creating better health care infrastructure

o Stimulating affiliation to the national health insurance scheme

o Education on health care subjects

o Financial support needy patients

o Initiate wound care programs

Stimulating sport activities

o Organizing sport activities

o Providing better sports infrastructure and equipment

o Sponsoring sportinitiatives

Preservation of cultural identity

o Supporting drum ‘n dance groups

o Supporting local craftsmen to commercialize their handicrafts

o Promote heritage awareness

Facilitating volunteers and tourists

o Guiding visitors and tourists

o Offering programs for volunteers

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From the Chairman

As a Belgian tourist I was blessed to have visited the Volta Region in May 2007. Since that time I used to visit Kpando every year and together with some Belgian volunteers we raised funds through the Belgian organization Support Ghana. Our aim is to help the disadvantaged young ones and deprived communities in and around Kpando. I am very happy that some of the yought we helped up till now, were inspired to start the new Emo Foundation NGO in Kpando with the same vision and mission as their Belgian partner Support Ghana. It is a privilege for me to help these youngsters to start up this NGO and to provide them with the necessary funds the next five to ten years in order to give them some time to organize themselves so that they can continue to reach our mutual objectives. In this first annual report you will find out more of our new NGO. I want to thank all who made the start of Emo Foundation NGO possible. Luc Somers

Chairman Emo Foundation NGO Coördinator Support Ghana

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Our values “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with

reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”

“If you contribute to other people’s happiness, you will find the true goal, the true meaning of life.” His Holiness The XIVth Dalai Lama

“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.” Nelson Mandela

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” Eleanor Roosevelt

”The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”

Malcolm Forbes

“Knowledge alone cannot give rise to value. It is only when knowledge is guided by wisdom that value is created." Daisaku Ikeda.

“Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.” Voltaire

"Talent doesn't exist. Talent is having the desire to do something." Jacques Brel

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhuman.” Martin Luther King

“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. … Sport can create hope where once there was only despair.” Nelson Mandela

“Culture is what is left when everything else is forgotten.” Edouard Herriot

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one single page.” Saint Augustine

To travel is to learn something about one another, to meet people, to respect them and better still to make friends so that in future we may live together in peace.

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Structure of the Organization

Board of trustees

The trustees act as an advisory board that will help the organization to achieve its mission.

Abubakari Sabitu Salam Muhammed Ibrahim Christian Deh

Director and Management Team

The management team implements daily activities and manages the activities of the

organization.

Staff Members

The staff is responsible for secretary work, bookkeeping and takes care of the Emo House

and his visitors.

Management Team Staff Member 2015

Luc Somers, Matthew Owusu, Abdul Rahman Dauda Abdulai Issaka Zibo

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Construction of 6 class rooms for primary school at Gadza

Renovation roof Kindergarten Dafor Extension for Class 6 Dafor

Presby student Apprentiship Glass works Cattle farm

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1. Education

1.1. Construction 6 class rooms primary school Gadza

Since 2013 we started to help the Gadza community to build six class rooms for the new primary school. In 2015 we managed to make 2.000 cement blocks and we raised the walls of all the class rooms. Also we build a new urinal.

1.2. Renovation and extension primary school Dafor

In Dafor we helped the local school to renovate the roof of the Kindergarten building that was destructed after a storm. Also we contributed to the roof of the extension that will be used as Class 6.

1.3. Scholarships

A lot of young ones in Kpando don’t have sufficient financial support to further their education at Senior High or Tertiary level. In 2015 we provided:

- 7 scholarships for Tertiary level education o 2 Physician Assistant at Presby University Agogo o 2 Teacher training at St Francis o 1 Chemistry at UCC Cape Coast o 1 Nursing training at Ho o 1 Bachelor of Science in supply and purchasing at Koforidua

- 7 students were helped at Secondary schools (Kpasec, Anfoesec, St Mary’s) - 6 students were paid for their fees at Kpantech - 4 students were helped at JHS level

2. Apprentiship and start up

Not all young ones have the capacity to finish school and in order to give them some support to find a job we helped two boys to apprentiship and to obtain their certificate (one welding, one glass). Two other ones went to driving school to obtain an official driver’s license. Three other young ones were provided with some seed money to buy some cows in order to start a cattle farm in future. In July 2015 a Belgian volunteer helped these start-up’s to do a regular bookkeeping in order to follow up the profitability of their new business.

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3. Health Care and Social Welfare

3.1. Health Care

A wound care project was organized in collaboration with five nurses from Belgium. The program was organized to cater for the people within and around Kpando who have wounds that need attention or special care. The main aim of the program was to help people with either acute or chronic wounds to facilitate the healing of the wounds. The program was carried out under three main approaches, 1. Visit to schools (Nuaridini, Gadza, Agudzi and Dafor) for students with wounds. 2. Visit to communities (Debidebi, Bumbula, islands of Dzidzorkpo and Gabikpo) to meet patients from nearby villages gathered at a particular place for wound care. 3. Visit to patients with serious cases at their various houses daily. Patients whose wounds couldn't complete the healing process before the end of the program were also taken into consideration as people close to them who are capable of helping them with taking care of the wounds were equipped and trained to do so. In general, the program will be described as interesting and successful as most of the patients had their wounds closed before the end of the program. Besides the woundcare program we also helped out a Hepatitis B patient and others to provide hospital care and medicins. We also stimulated some of our members to affiliate with the NHIS.

3.2. Social Welfare

Some of the students we help have no support at all from their parents or families. In order to help them to concentrate on their education we also provide them with lodging and some food stuffs for the period they are at school. In return they help with the programs of Emo Foundation NGO.

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4. Sports

Our partner Support Ghana started with organizing sports in 2008 and since stimulating sports is still one of our objectives. The budget spent on sports is not that much, but besides sponsorship of some local sports clubs like Keep Fit we also organized sports events such as a table tennis tournament at Zongo and a friendly football match at the sports stadium. We also provide the local sports clubs with materials such as footballs, table tennis items, basketballs, football boots and jerseys.

Table tennis at Zongo Support local Craftsmen

5. Culture

The Ghanaian Culture is very rich with dance, music, storytelling, local craftsmen (woodcarvers, pottery, batik, kente weaving, …). We want to help the local culture to be maintained and support the Desiadenyo Culture Troupe at Torkor and also buy at shops from local craftsmen. Also we donated a set of drums to the newly formed Blinks Culture Troupe at Kpando.

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6. Visitors and volunteers In order to be self-sufficient in future we started to offer a program for volunteers to guide tourists and visitors in Volta Region.

6.1. Emo House

We rented a house at Kpando Gabi South near the stadium and close to the market. This house is our office and also has some rooms to accommodate volunteers from our Belgian partners.

Emo House Kpando Gabi Joker Group

6.2. Volunteers

In 2015 we got visit of volunteers and managed to prepare a program for all in and around Kpando. Our aim is to offer them a program that is useful for the local communities. In 2015 we mainly focused on woundcare programs. Also we prepared the arrival of some internship students from the Belgian Teacher Training College KdG (Karel de Grote High School).

6.3. Guiding visitors

The Volta region around Kpando offers a lot of touristic attractions (Lake Volta, waterfalls, mountain villages, cultural heritage, Tafi Atome Monkey Sanctuary, …). The past years we manages to make some local maps with all the places of interest and started some website http://infokpando.blogspot.com with all kind of usefull information for potential visitors. In 2015 we guided some visitors and two groups of the Belgian tourist organization Joker.

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7. Financial statements 2015

On the income side Emo Foundation is depending on the gifts of the Belgian organization

Support Ghana and from volunteers and visitors.

As 2015 is the first year Emo Foundation NGO is active we also introduced some items

(tricycle, bicycles, kitchen equipment and furniture) that were purchased in 2013 and 2014.

These are mentioned as Payment in kind in the list.

We made some special expenses to start up the NGO, like the 3 years rent and equipment

for the Emo House.

INCOME 2015 GHc Euro

Contribution Support Ghana 36276 9069

Donations 64084 15550

Payment in kind 22263 6058

Contributions Emo House 1760 440

Guiding volunteers and tourists 2729 688

Refund Social Welfare 200 52

TOTAL GHS 127 312 € 31 857

EXPENDITURE 2015 GHc Euro

School Gadza 7404 1788.65

School Dafor 1666 468.18

Schoolfees Tertiary 26745 6434.24

Schoolfees SHS 17780 4537.64

Schoolfees JHS and other 466 114.83

Apprentiship 3955 981.80

Start Up 18400 4809.31

Hospital costs 1920 487.06

Medicins 1183 305.24

NHIS 232 57.68

Woundcare 50 13.09

Social Welfare 14931 3685.24

Sports sponsorship 1250 290.24

Ghana Shop 295 72.71

Culture 1371 322.91

Emo House and bikes 24773 6279.68

Emo Guiding 1814 451.21

Allowance 1787 441.59

Administration 1280 312.77

Cash position 31/12/2015 10 2.56

TOTAL GHS 127 312 € 31 857

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8. Forecast 2016 In 2016 we are planning to continue to obtain our objectives. Our schoolfee program will have priority in order to enable our students to further their education. If our partner Support Ghana manages to raise the extra funds we will also continue the construction of Gadza school and are planning to make an old building at Nkonya Bumbulla operational as Health Center.

Code EXPENDITURE GHc Euro

101 School Gadza 12000 3000.00

102 School Dafor 0.00

201 Schoolfees Tertiary 24000 6000.00

202 Schoolfees SHS 15000 3750.00

203 Schoolfees JHS + other 1000 250.00

301 Apprentiship 1000 250.00

302 Start Up 1000 250.00

405 Clinic Bumbula 12000 3000.00

401 Hospital costs 1200 300.00

402 Medicins 800 200.00

403 NHIS 200 50.00

404 Woundcare 200 50.00

410 Social Welfare 6000 1500.00

501 Sports sponsorship 600 150.00

601 Ghana Shop 200 50.00

602 Culture 600 150.00

701 Emo House + bike 2000 500.00

703 Emo Guiding

801 Allowance 3600 900.00

802 Administration 1000 250.00

Cash position 31/12/2015 0.00

GHS 82 400 € 20 600