Projects

Child Survival Project (CSP)

The project was in partnership with Plan-Ghana, a humanitarian child focused development organization, devoted to the improvement of children.

The Goal of the Child Survival project was to reduce under five mortality and morbidity in the target communities. The project aimed at making child welfare services and basic healthcare accessible to children under five years of age and women aged 15-49.

Peer Education on HIV/AIDS/STIs

Care and Support for infected persons and care takers.

This project funded by Ghana AIDS Commission was to reduce the rate of transmission of HIV/AIDS among young people and to reduce the impact on HIV infected persons and their children. Twenty communities in the Hohoe district were mobilized and sensitized on the basic facts of HIV/AIDS/STIs. Peer educators were trained in stepping stone methodology and peer groups were formed in schools and communities.

Drama performances and video shows were some of the strategies the organization used in educating communities and young people.

Fifteen PLWHAs were mobilized and financially assisted to access treatment and regular medical check-ups. The strong ones were assisted to with small loans to go into low risk jobs to support their families. Care takers also benefited from  several trainings.

School Health Programmes

Some selected schools are also benefiting from this project. The project was mainly to promote hygiene and sanitation including HIV/AIDS/ STI education and prevention among school children.

It is also to equip them with good communication, advocacy, negotiation and assertive skills that will prevent them from getting infected with HIV/AIDS.

The school health club members have also been trained in interactive theatre (a behaviour change communication methodology) which they use to educate their peers and other community members.

The health clubs also advocate for girls’ education and enrolment in schools.

Regions and Districts of Operation

GRASP has its head office at the North Industrial Area, Kaneshie, Accra. It also has three field offices in the Hohoe, District in the Volta Region and Upper Manya Krobo District in the Eastern Region.

Crossroads Africa GRAS/HFFG/FUGI  Partners' Poverty alleviation Project in the Hohoe District

Weanimix  Production Project

This is an income generating project  to alleviate poverty among women and to promote nutrition families including school children and pregnant women in the Hohoe District. Most of the women benefiting from this project are poor peasant farmers and petty traders, with very little incomes barely to meet their own needs and those of their children. Many of them are single parents, struggling to look after their children in school. This project was initiated to support the girls’ education project supported by Global Funds for Women.