Our Programmes

Designed to Improve Lives Across the Ajumako Enyan Essiam District

Why us

Community-Led, Volunteer-Driven

REDEPP is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization founded in 1999 and granted NGO status in 2001. Our board and officers are either current residents of the district or were born and raised there before returning to serve their community.

We listen and learn from the people we serve, build relationships with community leaders, and formulate plans rooted in local experience and support — because nothing works unless the community stands behind it.

Public Health

Improving access to health information, sanitation, and clean water. REDEPP has run HIV/AIDS education since 2002 and repaired faulty boreholes across 25 communities since 2011.

Education

Helping children fulfil their right to education through school programmes, spelling bees, debate clubs, reading clubs, and distribution of books, while addressing the social barriers keeping kids out of school.

Environment

Tackling deforestation and erosion through community-based tree nurseries, seedling planting, stream bank cleanups, and sanitation education for schoolchildren and youth.

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Infant

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Toddler

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Preschool

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What We Do

Our Programmes

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Public Health

There is a pressing need in the Ajumako Enyan Essiam District to ensure access to good health information and services that can save live and build healthier families. REDEPP seeks to help in both those areas, and also addresses public health issues by working to improve sanitation in public spaces, and by helping communities get access to clean water supplies.

REDEPP has had an HIV/AIDS education project since 2002. In January, 2003, it was contracted by the Ghana AIDS Commission to fund the program for one year. The methods developed under that contract were so successful that they were recommended for duplication for use in other districts. In addition, a dynamic group of volunteer instructors was developed within the Ajumako Enyan Essiam District during the program. They are dedicated to the AIDS educational effort and are continually updating their knowledge and skills.

The volunteers come from various backgrounds; they are teachers, health workers, artisans, farmers, and others, but all of them recognize that keeping the people of the district safe from AIDS is a process that will not end in the near future, and they are committed to being part of that process REDEPP was selected by Hope for Future Generations (HFFG) to implement HIV and AIDS Prevention Education in Asikuma Odoben Brakwa District in the central region from 1st October 2012 to 30th September, 2013 on behalf of Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC).

In 2007 REDEPP Officials and the President of Nyarkoa Foundation, USA visited a number of villages in the district with the aim of undertaking a project of repairing faulty water pumps fixed to boreholes. A number of faulty water pumps fixed to boreholes were identified and the rehabilitation of these faulty pumps have taken off in 2008 to re-activate water supplies to the rural people.

Water mechanization project was undertaken to connect water from borehole provided by the Ajumako Enyan Essiam District Assembly to Enyan Abaasa Health Center and residencies, Mando Senior High School and Nkwatanum Health Center. The mechanization was financed by Nyarkoa Foundation, USA and completed in February, 2008, September 2011 and March, 2013 respectively.

The project was undertaken with the approval by the District Assembly. As at 2011 to date REDEPP/Nyarkoa Foundation partnership has been able to repair faulty pumps fixed on boreholes for twenty five communities in Ajumako Enyan Essiam District.

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Education

Education is recognized as one of the keys to fighting poverty. Keeping children in school is important not only to the children, but to the rest of the community, and to the nation as well. Education leads to economic growth, social and political stability, declining crime rates and improved social services.

REDEP is committed to helping all children in the district to fulfill their basic right to the education that will help them build a bright future. It seeks to learn the specific needs of the children who are in danger of not being able to reach their educational goals because of their social situations and to find ways to assist them to overcome those barriers . Finally, REDEP works with the school district to help organize programs (such as spelling bees, debate and environmental/reading clubs, promotion of school garden, distribution of books etc) to generate enthusiasm for school children, and it works to encourage students to complete school.

Finally, REDEPP works with the school district to help organize programs (such as spelling bees, debate and environmental/reading clubs, promotion of school garden, distribution of books etc) to generate enthusiasm for school children, and it works to encourage students to complete school.

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Environment

REDEPP is concerned about the state of the natural environment of the Ajumako Enyan Essiam district and is seeking ways to address problems in that area. Some obvious concerns in the district are the degradation and erosion of areas that have been deforested, followed in some cases by their being used as dumping grounds.

This creates health hazards on-site as well as polluting the local water supply as the runoff from the dumps seeps into the ground water and streams. To address the problem, REDEPP works through a community-based project for children and youths in cooperation with the local school administration.

The project includes instruction and activities that teach the need to respect the local environment and the importance of sanitation and clean water to the health of the community. In addition, REDEP provides resources for the school children to undertake tree nurseries in their respective schools. The seedlings from the nurseries are planted by school children along farm boundaries, on institutional and common land, along river and stream banks, around homes and on degraded wastelands.

In addition, the children help with projects to improve sanitation by cleaning along stream banks and other areas. Their participation gives them an appreciation of the need to protect the local environment from damage, as well as how to improve it after it has been abused by improper use

How We Work

Three Pillars of Our Work

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Listening and Learning:

REDEPP works to effect behavioural change in the communities. It is our strategy to listen and learn from the people and uses the information to support project implementation. Nothing works unless the people of the community support it

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Build Relationship and Issue Awareness:

REDEPP interacts with the community leaders and other key people to build awareness on issues. These active interactions on many different levels

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Formulate a Plan:

Here, we have three choices in devising a plan to solve a problem. First ,we can use past experience to find a means to solve the problem.

Second, we can try to seek out problems that are similar and see how others solved them.

Third, we may need to restate or re structure the nature of the problem and then consider any and all possible solutions. These are done with the people of the communities where we work.

We welcome kids into our 2-4’s program based on their birth year.