AICP CURRENT PROJECTS

After school / Community Youth Center, Kumasi

Opening of an After-school/Community Youth Center in the rural neighborhood of Buokrom Estate, Kumasi, Ghana, to give the possibility of permanent educational and recreational support to less privileged children and adolescents.

General-purpose: to give less privileged children and adolescents a reference place where to meet and play, do recreational and educational activities together.

The guiding idea of this project is to activate an after-school program to counteract the failure in the study, the insufficient literacy level, and the educational disadvantage of minors.

The after-school service purpose is the motivation and re-motivation of “learning” minors, it is aimed at improving school performance, personal and school skills, working on the enhancement of one’s self.

Multifunctional Center for Youth Aggregation and Community Development, Have

Opening of a Multifunctional Center for Youth Aggregation and Community Development in the rural village of Have, Volta Region, Ghana, to give the possibility of permanent educational and recreational support to children and adolescents and to their peers with physical and psycho-physical handicaps of the villages in the area and their families, in order to allow a path of accompanying growth in an environment that fosters significant emotional and educational relationships; the Center is designed to become a point of reference for the community in the chosen area as the promoter and engine of educational, cultural and social gathering initiatives.

Unfortunately, traditional local culture is deeply rooted in stigmatizing disability, which is ostracized and sometimes actively suppressed.