Tiyah Development Centre - Developing Our Home

Akwaaba! Welcome!

Tiyah Development Centre, is a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) based in Ghana and concerned with developing, supporting and delivering education and healthcare advice within the communities that we live, work and serve; Kumasi (in the Ashanti region), Yendi and Tatale (in Northern Ghana). We also work in children's rights advocacy, maternal and child health care.

At Tiyah we work on a local level where we are able to make a real and immediate difference to people’s lives. Our aim is to develop the knowledge, health and prosperity of our communities… in other words, to develop our Tiyah (our home).

Staffed only by volunteers, we rely on the time energy and goodwill of people with similar beliefs and aspirations to our own for the success of the projects that we are involved in.

Akwaaba!

Welcome to Tiyah Development Centre's newly established homepage.

This website will be used as a hub for sharing information between TDC offices in north and south as well as volunteers who have come and left but would like to stay in touch. It is also our hope that this site will eventually aid in making it easier for potential partners and investors to establish a line of contact with the project for further collaboration.

When formal papers and word of mouth cannot sufficiently affirm TDC's existence as an active, goal oriented and transparent NGO, this blog should leave no doubt.

TiyahDC.blogspot.com will be maintained by accountable local members of the project, as well as loyal volunteers who remain active after returning to their home countries. Irregularity is to be expected concerning the update of this site, but feel free to contact us if you have questions about our latest activities.

That is all for this time. We'll returning shortly with our first "recent activities" post for the project.

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Our work - Kumasi

Located in Achiase, a village situated in the Atwima Nwabiagy district of Kumasi, the Tiyah Development Centre project here offers an educational and support service with a focus on HIV/AIDS awareness and understanding.

Staffed by a team of local and international volunteers our work takes us into six surrounding communities, offering formal and informal education and advice to community members, schools, hospitals and church groups on a daily basis.

With the philosophy that forewarned is forearmed, Tiyah Development Centre addresses the gap in knowledge and understanding of the major health issues facing Ghana today including HIV, Hypertension, Diabetes and animal bites.

With a view to sustainable education and empowerment, we have also established a network of school-based youth clubs with the ambition of creating an ever-expanding base of peer educators who are able to pass on knowledge, advice and understanding to others.

At Tiyah we are also heavily involved in gender issues in Kumasi working to improve the rights and wellbeing of women in our communtities focussing on maternal health and child care as well as the rights of women in decision making both locally and on a national scale

Click on the links below for more detail on some of our recent work:

• HIV debate On Air
• HIV and stigma in schools
• Hypertension
• People living with HIV/AIDS

Contact Us

Contact Us

e-mail: tiyahdc@gmail.com

Phone: +233 208159700

Address:

Our work - Yendi

Based in the deprived town of Yendi in Northern Ghana, Tiyah Development Centre is renovating an old building into a school, orphanage and community support centre which offers compassion, love and education to needy children in the area.

Taking the strain from mothers who are often only school age themselves, Tiyah takes in orphans and pre-school age children of young and under-privileged mothers, enabling them to work or continue their education themselves with the hope of proving a better life for their family.

Offering educational, health and hygienic assistance as well as emotional support and understanding, Tiyah provides an essential service to the local community. Acting also as a transitional base we will operate as a facilitator looking for families to adopt orphans and arranging access to formal education for all of the children in our care.

As the project develops, we will additionally offer accommodation to host abandoned or orphaned children, and aim to establish the means to educate mothers in income-generating activities to help them support themselves and their families.

About Tiyah

Tiyah Development Centre is a good-will NGO (more specifically: A civil society organisation) based in Ghana, West Africa. Tiyah consists of three seperate project sites, namely Yendi and Tatale, situated in the north of Ghana, and Kumasi in the Ashanti region.

Tiyah Development Centre was esablished in 2007 by a group of young men and women. Realising the development gap between the southern and northern part of Ghana and the drifting of school drop outs from the north to the south to do minor jobs, they decided to introduce Tiyah Development Centre as a source of relief to the teenage mother who drops out of school, the orphan, the widow and the needy.
Like other NGOs and CBOs, members of small communities is paramont in their decision making. Hence Yendi and Tatale has been selected to be the centre of operation. In Kumasi one of the deprived districts is Atwima Nwabiagya District and Tiyah is running an HIV / Aids program in seven communities.

Tiyah in most northern languages means OUR HOME. It is our responsibility to initiate development in our own home. In effect the program is geared towards the development of our home.


For further reading about each individual project, please refer to the links below:
- Yendi Project
- Tatale Project
- Kumasi Project


Tiyah's head office is situated in ... Kumasi.


Agenda


With different placements and seperate goals for each, Tiyah deals with a broad spectre of issues, covering one patch of land at a time. Still, Tiyah maintains some select few key goals that not subject to change drastically over time.


Tiyah Development Centre aims to:


Educate the adult population on health issues
Empower and support mothers of young age or lack of priveleges
Develop positive attitudes through understanding community development including notions of interdependence, respect for differences, peaceful conflict resolution and sustaining the environment.

Work

Are you interested in coming to one of Tiyah Development Centre's project to freely contribute your time and skills as a volunteer worker? Great! Here's what you need to know:

Compensation

Unfortunately, Tiyah Development Centre is not in a position to fund volunteers in any way. Any individual with a wish to work with Tiyah DC should be prepared to pay for the full trip and all other expenses associated with the traveling abroad . At the end of a successful period of volunteer work however, a letter of recommendation will be written.

Accomodation

Host families will be made available for volunteers, for those who want the full experience of living in an African family. Guest houses will also be available for those who like to have a bit more privay from time to time.

During volunteering for Tiyah, volunteers are free to travel as much as they want, to see the country. Volunteers will be picked up from the airport. Depending on the time of arrival, they will be brought to a hotel in Accra or Kumasi, for a week of orientation and familiasation. After this week, they will go to their centres to start working.

In addition we do receive volunteers directly, and can place volunteers in alternative projects depending on your individual area of interest. You can contact Helen Ninsau directly on +233 208 159 700

What are you waiting for? Contact us!

Exploring Ghana

Ghana at Wikipedia:

• Ghana
• Regions of Ghana
  
• Districts of Ghana
  
• Kumasi
  
• Yendi
  
• Tatale
  

Find Ghana at Statoids.com for postcodes, maps, population and more.

See GhanaDisctricts.com for district info sheets and news.

Tatale

Tiyah has a mud house hostel in Tatale to accommodate especially girls who may be admitted to senior high school, but who, due to the lack of accommodation, stay at home and get married at a very young age.
Tiyah is highly in female participation, in education and capacity building.

Widows, youth and teenage mothers will be taken trough some income generating activities with resources found in the environment. Some youth will have some short term inservice training to set them to the field to sensitise and educate the adult group on health issues. Diseases like malaria, HIV/Aids and Tuberculose are the major areas of operation. Young adults are being trained to give information to people about HIV/Aids. These young adults are being called 'Peer Promoters' and selected within the communities.