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RATIONAL FOR ESTABLISHING KSF |
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Resaerch survey conducted in 1996 in the Ho district in the Volta Region revealed that almost 70% of the youth in the rural areas are illiterates. Their attitudes to development innovations are very low. They lack skills and knowledge that they need to shape their socio-economic life in the future. At a distance, one could see the gulf of chronic poverty and under-development in the district. Projections are that social vices such as commercial sex among young girls will increase the menace of HIV/AIDS and the rural urban drift will assume unprecedented dimensions.
The result of the research survey instigated Mr. Felix Quarshie to form the KPAMBA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION (KSF). By the term ‘Scholarship’ is used to describe a state of relief, freedom and power over poverty through education, an upliftment from darkness(i.e. illiteracy) to light (enlightenment).
Unfortunately, many parents within Agotime Traditional Area where the foundation has its headquarters are pro-poor peasant illiterate farmers who cannot support their children’s education.
The operational plan by the founder is to source funds from various sources including other NGOs, philanthropists and churches to support education of every child in the area as the most desirable option for tackling chronic poverty. |
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VISION OF KSF |
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| The KSF is to become the catalyst for propelling poverty reduction through sound human resource development support for all children and youth in the rural areas. |
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MISSION STATEMENT OF KSF |
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| KSF exist to ensure that all under developed children and young people have access to education as a tool for reducing rural poverty. Through supply of educational materials and logistics and responding to their needs that block learning (i.e. construction of school blocks, supply of school uniforms, textbooks and other logistics) |
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OBJECTIVES OF KSF |
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| The general objectives of KSF is to provide the children and young people with the needed education to make better choices of their future careers and their socio-economic life. |
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SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OF KSF |
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- To provide educational facilities, infrastructure and materials in rural communities including computer literacy.
- To prepare the youth for better employment by giving them professional and vocational training.
- To encourage poor parents to support their children morally and with the least needed assistance in behavioral and good character formation.
- Solicit financial support to sustain the interest and needs of needy children.
- Sensitize children and communities on sound environmental practice and good health including HIV/AIDS and other deadly infectious diseases
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