We currently have 350 children in our book Club. These children will be reading for fun for a total of 720 minutes or 12 hours over a 2 months period. We encourage the children to read books that they received from us,books from the library, newspaper and children's magazine. We will reward the children that reach this goal and those that show tremendous improvements in their reading scores during the school year. Please help to Change 1 Child by supporting our reading club.
This is an opportunity for all volunteers and members to share their experiences with the various projects. You will also read about our International coordinators and their experiences and our latest news. This is for the general public and all our supporters.
Over 780 million adults in the world are illiterate.
64% of the world’s illiterate are women.
Nearly 60 % of the estimated 113 million children who do not attend primary school worldwide are girls.
On average, nearly 1 in every 3 children does not complete 5 years of primary education, the minimum required for acquiring basic literacy.
Firstbook.org
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Hope Project-June 8, 2009 from 9:00am-9:45am
Project Let’s Read-June 8, 2009 from 10:00am-10:45am
Project YES, I can Read-June 12, 2009 from 8:30am-9:00am
We are always looking for Volunteers, Please contact us for additional information in regards to our upcoming Projects.
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• Every 2.2 seconds, a child loses a parent
• Over 133 million children have lost one or both parents
• 15 million children are orphaned due to HIV/AIDS
• Less than 1% of all orphans worldwide are adopted
Please share your kindness today to help a child in need.
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April 14, 2009:
We met with the minister of Parliament for Youth and Sport at his office in Accra. At our meeting, we discussed the creation of several libraries in Accra and computer labs for Children both in the rural areas and in Accra, Ghana.
Osu Children’s Home
After our meeting with the MP for Youth and Sport, we visited Osu Children’s Home to meet with the Director for the orphanage-Ms Abbrey. We discussed the adoption of a reading room by Change 1 Child for children ages 3yrs old-12 yrs old. We agreed that once the reading room is completed, Change 1 Child will provide a reading coach, age appropriate reading materials and materials to test the children on their reading levels. We also discussed the completion of a general library which will be accessible to all children in the orphanage.
Teshie Orphanage
Our final meeting on April 14, 2009, was with Ms Parker-the founder and director of Teshie Orphanage. We discussed the urgent needs of the children and Change 1 Child’s plan for our partnership with Teshie Orphanage. Since the children of Teshie Orphanage will be moving to a new building which is unfinished, Change 1 Child has agreed to assist in the completion of the new building.
April 16, 2009:
Change 1 Child visited the children of Teshie Orphanage. We read several books to the children, has a discussion with the children about the books read and also had gametime with the children. We played Simon said, musical chairs, follow the leader and soccer.
April 18, 2009:
Change 1 Child visited Osu Children’s home. Similar to our activities at Teshie Orphanage, we read several books to the children, distributed reading books to the children and played soccer.
April 19, 2009:
Today Change 1 Child donated 4 million Ghana Cedis (about $400 USD) to Teshie Orphanage for the purchase of 30 bags of cement which will be used for the completion of the new orphanage building (Camp 2).
April 20, 2009:
Today Change 1 Child donated 2 million Ghana Cedis (about 200 USD) to Osu Children’s home for the redesigning and furnishing of the reading room. Before leaving Ghana, Change 1 Child painted the reading room, purchased benches for the reading room and completed the furnishing of the reading room.