About Us
The purpose of Project OKURASE (Opportunity, Knowledge, Understanding, Renewed Health, Arts-Based, Skills Training and Education) is to address the HIV/AIDS crisis in Ghana by helping vulnerable and orphaned children who are impacted by HIV/AIDS in their family and their village. The overarching objectives toward this purpose are to provide skills training and formal education to vulnerable children, women, and to connect orphaned children with families, called Way Forward Families, that have the capacity to meet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of a child. This will allow the children to grow healthfully into strong and independent adults. By coming together in a show of unity, the Centre and families will work to meet the following needs of children:
- Safety & Security
- Shelter
- Love
- Proper Nutrition
- Health Care
- Formal Education
- Marketable Job-Skills Training
- Job Placement
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The four overarching goals of Project OKURASE are to develop:
- A family-based model of caring for orphans and vulnerable children.
- A model for job and skills training for youth, young adults, and women in the arts and building industry.
- A model for family and village-based formal education with special emphasis on female children.
- A model for a community of green design or sustainable architecture.
