Premec Creations

Project Overview

A community-based poverty reduction and women’s organization is to be established in Gomoa-Fetteh in the Central Region of Ghana. The project will focus on providing training in various vocational training skills such as batik, tie and dye, beading, and sewing to women from extremely low-income areas.  It is expected that through the skills obtained they will be empowered to reduce their level of poverty, thus helping to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of Women’s Empowerment and Poverty Reduction. 

The project will operate in a series of three-month intensive training sessions in which groups of 15-30 women per session will be trained in the above-mentioned vocational training skills.  During each session, a team of three workers (one full-time and two part-time) will be responsible for providing the trainees with the skills required to make their own products and market them as well.

Over time, it is expected that this project will ultimately improve the financial situation of the women in Gomoa-Fetteh and its surrounding communities, the majority of whom are currently unemployed single mothers. 

Goals & Objectives

The primary goal of the project is to reduce the degree of poverty amongst women in Gomoa-Fetteh and its surrounding villages.  The objectives of the project are as follows:

1.     To provide groups of women with vocational training

2.     To teach these women entrepreneurship skills to enable the turn their acquired vocational skills into income-generating projects

3.     To provide microfinance loans to women who graduate from the program    

Clientele

There are two different target groups for this project.  The primary group consists of single mothers and housewives who are unemployed; the second group is made of Senior High School students and workers who will also train others in the future.  These two groups were identified based on interactions with various members of the community in order to gain an understanding of their economic problems and the interest skills they already have.

Cost to run the center:

How you can support this work:

Checks can be sent through the following church.  Each month checks are sent to the center for monthly needs.  Donations are tax-deductible.  Please make checks out to:

Metro Church of Christ

1525 NW Division St.

Gresham, OR 97030

MEMO LINE: Ghana Premec VTC

Contact Info:

Martha Bulley: premeccreation@gmail.com          Chelsea Jones: chelsea@premeccreations.org
Amy Hubble: amy@premeccreations.org