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Catholic Action for Street Children (CAS) - GHANA

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Catholic Action for Street children (CAS) is a Ghanaian non-governmental organisation (NGO), which helps street children, who live on the streets of Accra, Ashaiman, and Tema metropolis. CAS runs a day-centre in Laterbiokoshie, Accra where street children play games and rest. They can receive medical treatment, wash and keep their money and belongings safe. The organisation says: "The Refuge is also a place where the children can receive advice about their life and future."
Communication Strategies
CAS' objectives are to:
  • know more about the children and their needs and expectations, in order to counsel them so they can decide what they want to do with their lives.
  • show love and concern to the children and create a safe haven in a House(s)of Refuge and assist those children who wish to be re-united with their families.
  • co-operate with all organisations and groups that are interested and involved in projects or programmes to re-integrate street children.
  • provide assisted health care and education to the children.
  • provide formal and non-formal educational opportunities and job opportunities for the children with the help of employers to improve their skills and to help find jobs for them.
Children attend literacy classes where they learn about different trades and view demonstration classes. CAS helps the children to move off the street and learn a trade or go to school. The organisation has a Hopeland Training Centre which provides sponsorship placement for the street children. CAS' staff do field work on a daily basis visiting the streets to be with the children, to know where they work and sleep.

The organisation works closely with another NGO, Street girls AID (S.AID) which runs a refuge in Mamobi, Accra, for pregnant street girls. CAS established three crèches (Baby Care Programmes) and supported S.AID to establish other crèches in town. S.AID runs crèches, where babies and young children are cared for, while their mothers are earning a living.
Development Issues
Children, Youth
Key Points
The organisation aims to:
  • interact with street children so that they can be understood and supported.
  • assist those children who move off the street and into a stable living situation.
  • create general awareness about the plight of street children up to 18 years of age who sleep and work in the streets of Accra, Tema and towns in the Accra Catholic Archdiocese.
Partners
Catholic Church
Sources

Btinternet website on August 25 2004.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 22:22 Permalink

Very very useful. I am a PhD student at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. My research will be focused on street kids and therefore happy to discover a very responsible organization like yours is serving this population. Keep up the good work and I look forward to working with you later on in the year

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 03:56 Permalink

i thought i could get the statistics on the street children in ghana. please help me with that. can i have it on my e-mail box. jokamba@yahoo.com. thanks