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Solution Overview

Solution Name:

Community Development Challenge

One-line solution summary:

Supporting poor girls in in rural communities to stay in school and their finished their education .

Pitch your solution.

Problems we are committed to solve includes 1 Poverty These have manifested in girls coming to school in torn school uniforms, empty stomach, without sandals and sanitary pads. 2 Distance from home to school. Most girls walk several miles from home to school. They get to school tired and cannot concentrate in class ,most times they do not come to school at all because of the distance. 3 Teenage pregnancy This occurs when girls have unprotected sex their male counterpart. SOLUTIONS 1 We will supply the girls with sanitary pads ,food, school uniforms and sandals 2 We will supply the Girls coming from long distance community where there are no school with bicycles 3 We will educate and embark on an advocacy targeted at girls to abstain from unprotected sex Globally eliminating these hindrances will improve girl child education which will help them to get a brighter future .

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What specific problem are you solving?

1 Poverty : Most of the girls in our community especially in the rural areas are faced with financial problems which does not allow them to have access to quality education .this includes unavailability of learning materials . Added to this point most of the school girls can not be provided with one pack of sanitary pad during their menstruation period by their parent or guardians. 2 We will supply girls coming from long distance community with bicycle. 3 We will embark on education and advocacy targeted at girls to abstain from unprotected sex. 4 Cultural practices: In most of our communities it is forbidden to talk about sexual life ,so most of the girls do not know any thing about sex and their menstrual cycles implications.

What is your solution?

1 FOOD 2 SANITARY PADS 3 SCHOOL UNIFORM AND SANDALS 4 BICYCLES FOOD We will provide the girls with one hot meal daily.We will build a temporary structure to serve as a canteen for the girls to take their meals .We will engage a caterer to supply the meal daily. SANITARY PADS We will engage a vendor to supply the girls sanitary pads monthly SCHOOL UNIFORMS AND FOOTWEAR We will engage a vendor to supply the girls with school uniforms and footwear. BICYCLES We will engage a vendor to supply the girls with bicycle , that will enable them attend school daily and on time.

Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?

Young girls of school going age from Upper Primary to Senior High School within the Nkoranza municipality.The population of Nkoranza South Municipality, according to the 2010 Population and Housing Census, is 100,929 . Males constitute 49.6 percent and females represent 50.4 percent. More than half (52.9%) of the population in the Municipality live in rural areas. The Municipality has a sex ratio of 98.4 and a youthful (41.4 percent of the population aged less than 15 years) population depicting a broad base population pyramid which tapers off with a small number Municipality and its surrounding villages. FOOD: provision of food will be an incentive to keep in school. SANITARY PADS:provision of sanitary pads will help them keep their self clean from sickness

Which dimension of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?

Increase the number of girls and young women participating in formal and informal learning and training

Explain how the problem, your solution, and your solution’s target population relate to the Challenge and your selected dimension.

LEARNING FOR GIRLS AND WOMEN OF SCHOOL GOING AGE WITHIN THE UPPER PRIMARY AND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL BRACKET. The problems we have identify are ; poverty, distance from home to school ,teenage pregnancy and cultural practices. Because of poverty girls come to school in a torn school uniforms and with out footwear.They become hungry because there is no food .They soil themselves in class because they do not have sanitary pads,they walk long distances to school and they get tired and drop out of school because of pregnancy. providing uniforms,meals ,sanitary pads and sex education will address the challenges.

In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?

Nkoranza, Ghana

What is your solution’s stage of development?

Growth: An organization with an established product, service, or business model rolled out in one or, ideally, several communities, which is poised for further growth

Who is the primary delegate for your solution?

POKUAA PRISCILLA

More About Your Solution

Which of the following categories best describes your solution?

A new business model or process

Describe what makes your solution innovative.

our innovation is a holistic approach to girl child education. We propose to supply uniforms, footwear , daily hot meal, sanitary pads and bicycle to travel.We also offer sex education and propose cultural changes that engages the girl child in house chores during school hours.We acknowledge other competitors helping to improve girl child education.United nations international children's emergency fund[UNICEF] supplies school girls with folic acid to help in their menstrual flow,however the girls are not provided with sanitary pads to the girls absorb the menstrual flow.Government supplies one meal a day to selected schools.Government further supplies school uniforms to senior high schools.Our innovation will supply school uniforms and footwear to girls in upper primary to senior high schools,will also supply them with one hot meal a day eaten in the canteen but not in the classroom.We will also supply bicycles to girl coming from distance places to enable them come to school everyday and on time .We will also offer sex education to the girls and the general public to avoid teenage pregnancy leading to the girls dropping out of school.

Describe the core technology that powers your solution.

phones laptop projector table top computer taps access to the internet

Provide evidence that this technology works.

The cell phone .this help us to communicate to child whether she is in school or not. The laptop.this helps the student to learn typing and also access the internet. The projector.this help in enlargement folders and it help them to draw.

Please select the technologies currently used in your solution:

Audiovisual Media

What is your theory of change?

THE INPUT AND ACTIVITIES 1 Feeding the girls one square meal a day. 2 Supply girls with sanitary pads 3 Supply girls with school uniforms and footwear 4 Supply girls with bicycles 5 Give girls and the general public sex education 6 Educating the general public not to engage girls in other activities during school hours. THE OUTPUT 1 Girls well feld and concentrate actively in class 2 Girls are regular in school and have much confidence in class and do not soil themselves in class and also engage in active activities 3 Girl comes to school in new school uniform and footwear and every happy. 4 Girls from distance places come to school regularly and on time 5 Girls understands their biological changes and are not dropping out of school because of pregnancy. 6 General public educated not to engage girls during school hours. THE OUTCOME 1 Girl child enrollment in will increase 2 Girls will be very active in class 3 Girls will finished their education with out dropping out 4 Girls are employed and earn good salary 5 Girls leave better life and take good care of their families ACADEMIC JOURNAL ARTICLE Educational Research Quarterly Girl-Child Education Out com:A CASE STUDY FROM GHANA BY Arku,Frank S.;Angmor,Emmanuel N,;Tetteh,Isaac K.

Select the key characteristics of your target population.

Women & Girls
Children & Adolescents
Rural
Poor
Low-Income

Which of the UN Sustainable Development Goals does your solution address?

4. Quality Education
5. Gender Equality
10. Reduced Inequalities

In which countries do you currently operate?

Ghana

In which countries will you be operating within the next year?

Ghana

How many people does your solution currently serve? How many will it serve in one year? In five years?

1500 girls 3000 girls 10,000 girl

What are your goals within the next year and within the next five years?

To assist all school going girls within the nkoranza municipality and ensure that each girl child has access to sanitary pads always .Girls will not come to school with torn dress or bear footed.Teenage pregnancy will be reduce to the barest minimum .Girls are fed at least ones a day whiles in school .Girl child enrollment keeps increasing.

What barriers currently exist for you to accomplish your goals in the next year and in the next five years?

Lack of funds to supply food ,sanitary ,uniforms and footwear . Lack of funds for education and advocacy lack of funds to purchase computers lack of funds to construct temporary canteen

How do you plan to overcome these barriers?

We apply for funds from organization to support our project

About Your Team

What type of organization is your solution team?

Nonprofit

How many people work on your solution team?

Full time workers = 12

Part time workers = 25

Other workers = 15

How many years have you worked on your solution?

9

Why are you and your team well-positioned to deliver this solution?

C E O POKUAA PRISCILLA .SHE HAS A DEGREE IN SOCIAL STUDIES ,SHE HAS A FIVES YEARS TEACHING EXPERIENCE.SHE TEACHES IN RURAL COMMUNITIES. THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

AGNES SEMANU AGBELENGOR.SHE HAS A DEGREE IN EDUCATION AND CURRENTLY THE HEADMISTRESS OF NKORANZA GIRLS MODEL JENIOR HIGH SCHOOL AND ALSO A POST GRADUATE STUDENT OF ADMINISTRATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST (UCC). SHE HAS 17 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN TEACHING IN RURAL COMMUNITIES.

ORGANIZER

PRECIOUS FABEAH IS THE ORGANIZER OF THE ORGANIZATION . SHE HOLDS A DEGREE IN SOCIAL STUDIES. SHE HAS 5 YEARS EXPERIENCE AS A SOCIAL WORKER IN RURAL COMMUNITIES.

SECRETARY ADJEI STEPHEN IS THE SECRETARY .HE IS A MILITARY PERSONNEL 2 YEAR IN THIS INSTITUTION AND WITH 2 YEARS WORKING EXPERIENCE AS A SOCIAL WORKER IN RURAL AREAS .

What organizations do you currently partner with, if any? How are you working with them?

We work with the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of lLoca Government. We also work with the Ghana Education Service.We work with both public and private schools.

The Ministry of Education owns the public schools and regulates all educationsal institutions in the country the Ghana Education Service.

The Ministry Of Education gives the permission and support to work with schools and support the girls,

The Ministry of Local Government regulates activities of all government agencies within the locality. They help us carry out our education and supply to the girls.

We work with the traditional authorities to acquire land to embark on our projects, We engage the Parent-Teacher Associations in the various schools to deliver our services.

Your Business Model & Funding

Partnership & Prize Funding Opportunities

Why are you applying to Solve?

we need funding to finance all our activities as we mention

In which of the following areas do you most need partners or support?

Funding and revenue model
Monitoring and evaluation
Marketing, media, and exposure

Please explain in more detail here.

funding and revenue model ;we need technical support in funding revenue model to attract funding from various institutions to finance our activities monitoring and evaluation : we need training in monitoring and evaluation to access our performance and impact on the community marketing , media and exposure ;we need training to market and expose our activities to entire world to improve patronage and attract funding

What organizations would you like to partner with, and how would you like to partner with them?

We want to partner with ministry of education ,ministry of local government and rural development . The ministry of education will give us the permission to partner the school to deliver our serves to the girls and the ministry of local government and rural development will assist us to acquire land and other infrastructure

Explain how you are qualified for this prize. How will your team use the Innovation for Women Prize to advance your solution?

We support girls and women education in rural communities to improve their standard of living

Problems we are committed to solve includes 1 Poverty These have manifested in girls coming to school in torn school uniforms, empty stomach, without sandals and sanitary pads. 2 Distance from home to school. Most girls walk several miles from home to school. They get to school tired and cannot concentrate in class ,most times they do not come to school at all because of the distance. 3 Teenage pregnancy This occurs when girls have unprotected sex their male counterpart. SOLUTIONS 1 We will supply the girls with sanitary pads ,food, school uniforms and sandals 2 We will supply the Girls coming from long distance community where there are no school with bicycles 3 We will educate and embark on an advocacy targeted at girls to abstain from unprotected sex Globally eliminating these hindrances will improve girl child education which will help them to get a brighter future .

Explain how you are qualified for this prize. How will your team use The GM Prize on Learning for Girls and Women to advance your solution?

We support girls and women education in rural communities to improve their standard of living

Problems we are committed to solve includes 1 Poverty These have manifested in girls coming to school in torn school uniforms, empty stomach, without sandals and sanitary pads. 2 Distance from home to school. Most girls walk several miles from home to school. They get to school tired and cannot concentrate in class ,most times they do not come to school at all because of the distance. 3 Teenage pregnancy This occurs when girls have unprotected sex their male counterpart. SOLUTIONS 1. We supply the girls with sanitary pads ,food, school uniforms and sandals 2. We will supply the Girls coming from long distance community where there are no school with bicycles 3. We will educate and embark on an advocacy targeted at girls to abstain from unprotected sex Globally eliminating these hindrances will improve girl child education which will help them to get a brighter future .