Hope Restored: Celebrating Our 2024 Achievements

As we close out 2024, the Hope Restored team Thanks You. You are our friends, partners, and advocates for hope. In a year of challenges, and victories, you have made our work possible.

We are so grateful for your generosity, your kindness, and your encouragement. We have faced a challenging environment towards special needs and disabilities in the Upper East region and Ghana. Despite every trial, you all have made it possible to continue ahead.

Looking Back to 2024: This year we have deepened our resolve towards quality education, and healthcare for all people in the most impoverished regions in Ghana. Below are a few key accomplishments for HOPE:

1.) Training for Inclusion: Together We have trained educators in inclusive education practices to help in including students with disabilities in education. We have trained parents and caregivers on trauma healing and resiliency despite stigmatization of children with special needs.

2.) College Scholarships: Currently, the organization is supporting 3 former JOSC School Teachers in university & college programs. These former teachers have committed to come back to help the JOSC School upon graduation from school. We are proud to provide education to young women in the Upper East region.

3.) J.O.S.C School: The first project that Tiina Jori Ko Ba NGO has embarked upon is the Jeanette Okuyade Special Children’s School ( JOS Children’s School). This School Program is for all children. We are grateful to have kept our doors open, and improved our school classrooms. We specifically cater to the needs of children with various developmental delays. However, our program is open to all students with & without special educational needs age 5 and above. The school launched in January 2021 as a fully free program for children with special needs in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality.

Looking Forward to Next Year:

1.) Advocacy Initiatives: We are pushing toward Full Inclusion for children with disabilities in all sectors of the community. After Nora’s passing (former JOSC School student who passed away in the hospital due to facility being incapable to treat her asthma attack), We are working on other advocacy initiatives at the school and in the community. Our Director of Advocacy & Management is working on a formal sign language curriculum. This curriculum would train sign language interpreters and volunteers to work in hospitals throughout the Upper East region and Ghana.

2.) Building the JOSC School: We hope to finish the ten other classrooms, and cafeteria for the J.O.S Children’s School. Currently, we have the foundation complete for the ten remaining classrooms and for a cafeteria. However, we are actively raising funds to continue building. We aim to become sustainable by running the school cafeteria or restaurant. We want to rely less on donations and crowd-sourcing. In the future, we will depend more on income from the restaurant or cafeteria and local partners.

3.) Reducing Stigmatization: Creating more awareness in the northern sector of Ghana about the needs of children with special needs, and train schools on how to better include all students.

A Call to Action:

We cannot do this without you. Whether you are a volunteer, partner, or an advocate for Hope. We at Hope Restored (Tiina Jori Ko Ba) are grateful for your solidarity in standing with us in 2024. We cant wait to explore the possibilities for HOPE in 2025.

With Gratitude,

The Tiina Jori Ko Ba: Hope Restored Board

Kelvin Afrane, Claire Daniels, Maeghan, Livingstone, Ekua Afrane, Evans Walton, Prosper Pwasam, and Elaine Walton

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