Branches - BRANCHES - HEAL , Ghana

In January 2011 a group of concerned citizens came together to establish a non-profit organization, Humanity Empowerment Alliance, Ghana (HEAL, Ghana), which is a humanitarian propose to implement projects to promote positive livelihood in Ghana while making their knowledge, experience and resources available to help others build a better life and eventually improve the country's economy.

Their vision is to eradicate computer illiteracy amongst all members of the community by establishing a training center in all 10 regions in Ghana and to promote a healthy community through fumigation and drilling of about 500 portable boreholes for safe drinking water in the 10 regions by the year 2020.
Detailed Work Profile:

• To improve computer illiteracy by offering free computer training to all members of the community and the physically challenged and establish training centers in all 10 regions in Ghana.
• To provide participants with the basic knowledge of project initiation, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
• To organize a day's seminar for participants on fire safety and prevention
• To enhance good water systems through provision of about 500 portable boreholes in all communities.
• To support local communities with improving their health through voluntary fumigation in the surroundings of local school, market and public places.

The age of information technology is here with us and would be staying with us forever. Through IT the world is becoming smaller and smaller with each passing day in what is known as GLOBAL VILLAGE. Therefore, formal education should not be the only gateway for one to acquire ICT knowledge. Increase in Internet usage for instance has been identified to bring more people together (e.g. social networking such as face book etc.) as well boost economic activities. Employment opportunities become abound as more people communicate through the various media of the IT world. Adding more people into this IT age in a country like Ghana would require basic computer knowledge which most people cannot afford through formal education.

The duration for the computer training is 6 weeks within which participants will be taught the basis of MS Office suite which includes MS Word, MS Excel, Access, Publisher and Power Points as well as hardware skills and networking. The training also includes courses in basic project management principles and a day's seminar on fire safety delivered by officials of the Ghana fire service.

HEAL is a community oriented organization, loyal and reliable to their course, and responsive towards the needs of ordinary Ghanaians across the country, there is no about efforts will be a great success. YAA and HEAL's values distinguish them from others and the organization has the perseverance to overcome challenges in order to maintain optimum satisfaction of beneficiaries and the entire nation.

YAA & HEAL's collaboration seeks to implement the agenda of the Computer and Entrepreneurship Development Center in Ghana.