From a vision borne from Reverends Rick and Donna Whitcomb’s desire to provide the orphans with quality education, to a school that strives for excellence, the Agape Academy is changing lives.
Now in its second year of existence, the Academy teaches 88 pupils, from grades 1 to grade 12. There is now a team made up of 10 teachers and two support staff.
The phenomenal success and growth of the Academy has resulted in a need for a purpose-built block, allowing the original Children’s Home to return to being just that - a home for the children. Currently the building is used as both a home and a school for the children.
We believe God wants us to break ground for this project in early 2010. But to achieve this, we need you! The cost of building a block that includes 12 classrooms, a library, a study room a teacher’s lounge and offices will be $450,000. This is approximately $25,000 per room. In addition to the construction costs, we are also raising funds so that we can furnish the school as well as meet our ongoing expenses.
Our most urgent need is to raise $100,000 now in order to begin site preparation work and begin laying the foundation. And for any of you who have experience in construction, we invite you to Ghana. Whether you’re a foreman, mason, carpenter or you’re just good with your hands, we can use you.
Your best donation now or your service as a volunteer will help us unlock the full potential of all the children at Agape Children’s Home.
Click here If you would like to Sponsor a Child in this home.
Poultry Farm for the Home
Our Agape Community is home to approximately 100 people. As a community, the foster parents can further support themselves and their children all year round with just a start-up capital of less than USD$2,000 from you! To launch this small enterprise on behalf of our families, we need to buy 500 chicks, feeding and drinking troughs, as well as feedstock.
Skills Training Center
Unemployment amongst the youth continues to be high in Ghana. The best way to ensure you make a living is by learning a trade. The most popular trade in Ghana for girls is sewing and the most popular skill for boys is carpentry. We want to make sure that all our children leave our care with a good education and a skill. The Skills Training Center is a brand new initiative that we are excited about. Help us to make a difference in their lives now and long into the future by providing the funds to buy ten sewing machines and an assortment of tools for the carpentry shop. In total we need to raise USD$5,000.
A New Well
Have you ever stopped to think about the number of times you turn on your tap in any one day? When you’re gasping for water, it is right there, clean and ready for you to drink. When you want to wash off the worries of your day, you can sink into a nice warm bubble bath. Where would you be without clean potable water at your disposal? Now imagine living in a society where something so essential was often scarce. In Ghana potable water is not so readily available and large communities live without plumbed-in water systems. There are many alternatives including wells, and at the Agape Children’s Home in Oyarifa, Ghana we need an extra well to meet the needs of our community. The total cost of drilling a well is USD$30,000. Any donation, big or small will help us keep our growing foster village alive and well.
Our partner organizations are Agape Gospel Mission and Be A HERO, which is an International ministry reaching the world with God’s Love. [Click here to learn more about our partners] Our partner organization is Partners in Action (PIA).