Yendi

Three Tiyah volunteers based in Achiase recently visited the Daycare centre in Yendi (April 2011), where they were able to meet the children and teachers working there. The project does not currently have enough funding in order to be able build anywhere to house the children, but they hope to be able to expand in the future to accommodate those children in need of care, turning Yendi into an Orphanage. The children currently live with their families in the area and journey to the centre to start lessons early in the morning. They are currently learning to read and speak basic conversational English (“Hello, How are you? I am fine” as well as their name). They are also learning the Days of the week, months of the year and to count to 100, among other things. The children at the centre wear a lovely purple uniform, the girls dresses tied with a yellow ribbon. The centre also provides the children with two meals a day to ensure healthy growth. The compound in which the centre is situated has a large area for the children to play when they have their breaks.

Yendi is a 2.5hr journey from Tamale and any Volunteers who wish to visit the Yendi Centre are welcome to stay overnight; there is room set aside for this purpose at the centre. The facilities here are basic but the people are very kind.

Photos to follow!

Yendi

Some of the Tiyah Team went up to the Yendi Day care centre last week; this is the center in the North of Ghana. Yendi is a fairly small village and the center has two large classrooms and they teach English to local children. The hope for Tiyah Yendi in the future is to expand and turn it into an Orphanage. Currently all the children who attend live with their families and go to the center for the morning. They even wear lovely purple uniforms! It was a great experience heading up there to meet the children and the Ghanaians who are looking after them, all the teachers and Yuisf, the headmaster, were very welcoming and friendly.

working with women

At Tiyah, we are concerned with the rights, health and wellbeing of women and children in Ghana. In fact with our director, and our secretary being women we are as close as possible to the many issues women in our country face every day.

Our Yendi project is concerned with helping empower young mothers with little opportunity to further their education and employment purposes

We are also working to address maternal health through our headquarters in Kumasi.

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