Lovey Ghana

Lovey Foundation Ghana


In July 2013 the Lovey Save Child Workers Foundation (Lovey Foundation) was launched by a committee led by Aruk Thomas Lateef to help and support disadvantaged children in Bawku Municipal District, where 70% of people are involved in subsistence agriculture. It provides them with access to at least a primary school education by removing barriers that prevent this, especially for girls. Working with parents and carers, the Lovey Foundation gives them support, encouragement and convincing reasons for sending their wards to school.
 
When the Lovey Foundation (UK) Secretary, Dr Yaa Asare, was in Ghana in 2012, she led the research in Bawku, supported by Aruk Thomas Lateef (then a student teacher at the university where she was a visiting lecturer) and his family. This encouraged the setting up of the Lovey Foundation with a Constitution in June 2012. So the UK sister organisation has very close links with the work done in Bawku.


Lovey Foundation Ghana Executive Members

  Aruk Thomas Lateef

Founder and CEO of Lovey Foundation, Aruk Thomas is a professional teacher at Bawku Technical Institute teaching Social Studies. "My aspirations for this young Community Based Organisation is that, through the way it is educating and changing the lives of less privileged children working in the local quarry and fields, it has a brighter chance to attract support both locally and internationally - to become a bigger NGO to assist more children to have access to education."

Hajia Akudbilla Faustina

Ms Faustina Akudibilla is the Girl-Child Education Officer in the Ghana Education Service (GES) in Binduri District. "My hope for the Lovey Foundation is that poor children will have the chance of an education - more especially the girl-children. I therefore  hope and pray that the Foundation will grow bigger in our communities to support more needy children."





Peter Asaal

Peter is a Board Member of the Lovey Foundation. He is a participatory M and E (Monitoring and Evaluation) Officer at BEWDA-Ghana (Bawku East Women’s Development Association); Lead Facilitator in Programmes / Projects; Designer: Implementation, Monitoring & Evaluation, and a member of its Senior Management Team. “I work mostly in the rural areas in the Bawku Municipal and see how less privileged children find it difficult to have access to quality education, so I decided to become a Board Member to support its mission”.

Revd Samuel Ayaaba 

Ayaaba Samuel is a retired pastor and a trustee of Lovey Foundation  (Ghana), now into farming and rearing of small ruminants at Kuloko in the  Binduri District.  "My aspiration is that the Foundation should be able to obtain a formal office of accommodation to overcome the many obstacles and challenges of working in houses."






Achiriga Janet

Achiriga Janet is Treasurer of the Lovey Foundation and she is a Dispensary Assistant with Presbyterian Health Service in Bawku.
"My hope is that the children under Lovey Foundation will excel to come back to their society to support children in similar situations to have access to education."

 

Awini Isaac Nderago

Awini Isaac Nderago is the Secretary of Lovey Foundation (Ghana). He is a graduate and a professional teacher at Bawku Technical Institute, teaching Integrated Science. 

"The Lovey Foundation has increased children's access to education in the region, especially the less privileged children, and my hope is that they get the support they need to continue their good work."

Aruk Philomena Teni

Aruk Philomena Teni
is a teacher at Our Lady of Fatima Junior High School in Tamale in the Northern Region, teaching Information and Communication Technology.

"My aspiration for the Foundation is to extend it to Tamale so that other deprived children in area can also get a chance to be educated."

Akparibo Isaac Awinpang

He is Organising Secretary of Lovey Foundation (Ghana) and a graduate teacher now doing his National Service Scheme (NSS) at Zawse Junior High School (JHS) teaching English Language.

“The Lovey Foundation have given opportunities to the less privileged children to have access to education in the Bawku Municipality. My greatest hope is for Lovey Foundation to become a bigger NGO to assist more children in the Bawku Municipality, Upper East Region and Ghana as a whole to have access to quality education."


Lovey Volunteers (Ghana)

Our volunteers make a significant contribution and support the work of the committee members

Abunkudugu Ashakwin Bashiru

 Bashiru is currently a student at the Takoradi Polytechnic, which is located in Sekondi-Takoradi, the capital of the Western Region of Ghana.

Aguri Christopher

Aguri Christopher is a student and professional driver.
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