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Outreach Monitoring Programmes

Young and Lonely Foundation takes it upon itself to monitor villages within and around the district where orphans and less privileged children could be encountered. Many visits to the villages are organized by the foundation to oversea the lives and conditions of the families living in the communities with special focus on orphans and underprivileged children. During these visits YLF often provides funds and aids to assist the schooling and well-being of their communities. These visits are vital to the communities as it provides them with the security and knowledge that they are in need of.
The Commission for Community Outreach and Monitoring (CCOM)
The Commission for Community Outreach and Monitoring (CCOM) is within the Young and Lonely Foundation and supports the community with any initiatives organized for children, as well as monitoring the children in the community. It is made up of well trained experts on child healthcare and development. The mission of CCOM is to develop and implement projects aimed at erasing homelessness and streetism among orphans in the community, especially those in Agona District and other surrounding Districts. The commission does it works through organization of fun programmes for the children, interviewing both the children and their parents, holding meetings with parents, all with the paramount view of knowing exactly what their problems are and how best they can help and probably solve these problems. One vital vision of this commission is to upgrade the hidden potentials in these orphans and homeless children in Agona District and other Districts. Deprived children fished out by the commission in the community are integrated with the boarding students the foundation partners with, for them to have access to the boarding facilities. This is with the aim of allowing the children undergo a thorough psychological test exercises. These tests purposely restore children with emotional and mental conflicts. This Commission is supported financially by volunteers who are more interested in the well-being of children. The commission had a couple of volunteers who occasionally contributed financially. Currently, these volunteers are no more and therefore the commission's work has become a bit slower and immobile. The Commission is appealing to volunteers who have keen interest in the child's well-being to contribute their quota, be it material things or finances to help upgrade the commission's work and the needy children as well. Under this Commission, the foundation supports a number of Children in three (3) categories.
(A) Children under nursery 1 and 2, kindergarten 1 and 2 have been sponsored with the term’s tuition fee in such a way that the registration fee for the child is what is needed, and that will cover up until the child is promoted to basic level (primary) and above; but as compared to the ones catered for in the boarding house, there are differences. To sum it up, not less than three hundred (300) children are sponsored in this category.
(B) Under category two, basic level 1 (primary) to senior high school students are sponsored. Approximately a number of seventy (70) school children are sponsored partly due to their specific predicaments and all of them are “Day students”.
(C) The foundation sponsors roughly thirty (30) orphans, and needy children in full with food, shelter, etc now in the boarding house. We appeal for funds from other entities, all helping bodies, and volunteers to come to our aid to sponsor any of the above categories in all kinds. And also to enable us to take in those on our waiting list. Please all are cordially welcome, God richly bless you. The outreach programme is now broadened to include women, youth out of school and the generally deprived persons in the community to create livelihood and hope for them through vocational training. We welcome all volunteers and all organizations interested in human manpower development to help us improve and expand our undertakings.

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