Children Helper’s Foundation

MDGs—extreme poverty, education, reduce child mortality,

About Us
Children Helper’s Foundation is dedicated to helping orphans and neglected children throughout the Cape Coast region of Ghana. Working with over seventy children, we believe that by providing quality support, care, and education we can help children actualize their dreams and become productive members of society. We work with the traditional extended family model for finding home care for children and then sponsor these children in school. Our founder also experienced neglect as a child, which inspired him to establish a support system for youth like himself who could use a hand-up to realize their potential.  To keep children ahead of the game, we offer summer school programs, life skill workshops, tuition, and computer and health classes.

Our Community
On the southern coast of Ghana, the Cape Coast region is the fourth poorest slum area in the country. Confronting the high rates of crime and drug abuse that would regularly attract neglected children, Children Helper’s Foundation is working to change this inevitability.  These communities rely heavily on the fishing industry, where a child’s education tends to hang on the success of a year’s fishing catches. We also work in mining and farming regions that employ children, including the Elemina and Komenda districts, in both English and Fantsi.
 
History
We began in a very organic way, first sponsoring five dropout children back to school with school books, uniform, shoes, and tuition. The number of sponsored students continued to grow, and by 2004 an organizational structure for Children Helper’s Foundation was put in place. Now a registered non-governmental organization, we continue to grow with a staff of six people and our steadfast ambition to reach more children with better services to ensure they succeed.