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RURAL INTEGRATED RELIEF SERVICE-GHANA PledgePage
We have identified poverty on the parts of parents as the main causes of the problems. The organization has agreed with the opinion of the other research institution among other things that women should be empowered economically to support in the upkeep of family since women play a fundamental role in the upbringing of children.
It has also been found out that a strong correlation exist between nutrition and gender. The type of employment and income of women was shown to have impact on malnutrition’s. Regular in come for women reduced malnutrition in house holds as it improved women’s ability to take care for their families better. The most nutritionally vulnerable groups are infants, young children and women, particularly those who are pregnant or lactating. The multifaceted nature of the cause of malnutrion has long been identified. This is characterized by immediate and underlying causes such as household food insecurity, inadequate care for women and children inadequate health services all due to poverty. The development of our human resource as a nation is hampered to a significant extent by problems associated with mal nutrition. Nutrition has taken center stage in world politics and it has been identified as key in realizing the United Nations millennium development goals which focuses among other on the improvement of nutritional status thorough poverty alleviation and general sustainable socio-economic improvement (esp. women economic empowerment) in politically congenial environments such as Ghana. It was identified that the incidence of economic constrain made many young women involve themselves in premature sexual habits just to earn a little money for a living. In the process some of these young women become pregnant with no man accepting responsibility because they often engage in multiple sexual partners. Some end up in total prostitution hence risking their lives with deadly sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/AIDS. RURAL INTEGRATED RELIEF SERVICE- GHANAis the obvious choice for the solution of this canker. Ghana labour force has grown tremendously over the past three decades without a corresponding improvement in the level of quality of employment .unemployment also grew from 2.5% for the labour force in 1984 8.6%in 2002. there also high level of underemployment among the labour force meaning a major human resource lost to the countries development such level of unemployment have an impact on poverty in Ghana. Sources, Ghana statistical services. Another critical emerging problem is child labour. This is defined as any activity that is either economic or non-economic, that is too dangerous or hazardous and /or for activity the child is considered under-age, since it is likely to have deleterious effect on the Childs health, education, moral and also normal development. The Ghana child labour survey conducted by the statistical service in 2001 found that 40% of the 6.4 million people aged 5-17 years in Ghana were engage in regular economic activity .child labour occurs in all regions of Ghana. Over 93%of children cited poverty as the reason for working. The income from theses children was not only to help their parent but also to pay their school fees. The incidences of child labour were greater in rural than in urban and involved male and females in almost equal proportion. The rate of maternal death of 64/1000 is a major contributing factor to new babies being orphaned and preceding children being send away to work. Theses figures gives and idea of the struggle to meet the basic needs of an entire household die to poverty. RURAL INTEGRATED RELIEF SERVICE- GHANA is at the forefront of supporting orphans and vulnerable children with scholarship package and also offers its kills training for women and guardian to help alleviate the plight of families. The organization orphanage center called Ugemote Orphanage located in the Volta Region. Demographic statistics show that women and children formed three quarter of the country population and so the protection of their rights was critical to national development. RURAL INTEGRATED RELIEF SERVICE- GHANA center operates. Records available e showed that the weekly collection and special contributions which is usually conducted male’s vs. Females in most churches, the males regularly contribute much more higher than the female. The problem is that most of them have no profession, no quality jobs hence low income, and simply cannot give what they do not have. Therefore the need for the organisation to empower them with income generating International donor agencies and developed nations design economic policies with conditionality that directly affects the vulnerable of African. This was further emphasized during the recent conference held in Nairobi, Kenya by the African women millennium initiative on poverty and human rights. The women have accused leaders of the continent of being responsible for the poverty and numerous problems facing it. They said borrowing of money from donor communities had led the continent to “an immoral and odious debt and derailing the development agenda. This according to them had denied hardworking Africans of honest wages for their labour. Economic growth in sub Saharan Africa reached an eight –year high of five percent recently, according to a report by the international monetary fund (IMF).however the growth improvement recorded in economic performance are not enough to meet the United Nations millennium development goals for reducing poverty. Expenditure cuts in relation to the African economic crisis and structural adjustment programmed imply that already impoverished households will continue to suffer if measure taken is not fully implemented. RURAL INTEGRATED RELIEF SERVICE- GHANA programmed had been designed to complement our government efforts of tackling the issues thought its poverty alleviation strategies. 4.0 AIMS AND OBJECTIVE 4) To empower women and young girls, widows and teenage mothers with employable skills in vocational and catering services. 4.1) by empowering this largest group with income generating skill, they can contribute their quoter to the development of the church and improve their spiritual values and welfare. 4.2)to address the economic factor which is the major motive that drives females into prostitution, they engage in it to make ends meet due to the economic hardship in the society. With regular income generating skills the major channel of spreading sexually transmitted disease and HIV/AIDS, which is prostitution, could have been subsided. 4.3) to stop poor families from spending their little income in hospital with children due to mal –nutrition by way of equipping and teaching of how to prepare nutritious meals for the children for healthy life. 4.4)To support orphans and vulnerable children, in our areas of operations, with scholarship package such as provision of school uniforms ,bags footwear, reading material pens and pencils and payment of schools fees , so that the issues of child labour would be addressed. 4.5) to train senior and junior secondary school leavers and other school drop- out in catering and tailoring /dress making. Leading to National Vocational Training Institute Certificate to enable them to pursue higher education at the polytechniques and colleges. 4.6) to teach honor, respect for oneself, other people and God. 4.7) our primary objective is to help improve the lost of woman, the youth and children to attain economic self-sufficiency and self reliance to alleviate poverty among them. |