Uhuru4all foundation was established in 2007 at Shukurah a district of Accra, our initial location. The foundation was established to train school drop-outs in learning a trade (sewing). This came about because we saw the difficulties that some children face and decided to do something about it. Miss Mariette Deijen who was then on a visit to Ghana, Abdul Mumuni Sidiq, Iddi Sidiq and Teiko Tagoe (Sly) came together and started the sewing workshop.
We renovated our first location which was offered to us with a huge financial support from Mariette and donations we got from others who share our vision.
We had to relocate from there after four years due to some challenges we encountered during that period. Mr. Daniel the current manager and trainer joined us thereafter and has been in charge ever since.
We have now been able to acquire our own property. We bought a piece of land at Kojo Oku a suburb of Kasoa close to Nyanyano which is now our permanent location. We’ve built the first phase and working towards the next which is to build a structure in front of the existing one that will accommodate our teaming students as well as start the other training programs that we have in the pipeline.
Since our inception, the NGO BASIC CARE, a non profit organisation has been supporting us by giving us contracts annually to sew clothing for the poor in the northern part of Ghana through a nonprofit hospital in Tamale called SHEKHINAH HOSPITAL established by the late Dr. Abdulai and currently being run by his wife Mariama.
Dr David
Mariama
Shekhinah Hospital
The contract keeps the workshop busy for several months in the year and the clothes we produce is sent to the north and shared among the poor at every Christmas.
We have been able to train over eighty-eight (88) students, of which two (2) did the whole course without an exam, thirty-seven (37) passed the exam. Twenty two (22) trainees dropped out with or without a reason. Currently twenty four (24) are following the course. The ones who passed their exam are working at various places, able to help themselves as well as contributing to the society. The Overview of the list trainees is to be find at the page: Trainees
In 2017, the 10th anniversary of the Foundation was celebrated!
A film has been made of this which can be seen on You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JaQEYMZx0M&t=6s
Official documents
April 1, 2020In 2017 the website of the NGO was hacked and totally vanished of the Internet. In Jan 2018 a new website was made but a…
Read moreThe last and final location in Kojo Oku
September 22, 2013
The last and final location in Nyanyano March 2013 In the year that we rented the Chief’s space in Official Town, I asked for a financial…
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March 17, 2013
The workshop in Official Town 2013 The temporary accommodation in Galilea was not a suitable place for the training. When I returned to Ghana in…
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May 9, 2011
The workshop in Galilea 2011 The second workshop with the sewing training started in Galilea in 2011, even before the workshop in Shukula was closed….
Read moreThe Pilot: Workshop in Shukura, Accra
October 1, 2007
The workshop in Shukura, Accra. In october 2007 we started the vocational training sewing in Shukura, Accra. The training is free and takes 2 –…
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