Ongoing activities

    1. Project to provide IEC(Information, Education and Communication) materials on HIV/AIDS to over 15,000 Kayayee(female porters) in 25 communities in the Tamale Metropolis(Phase II)

    2. Programmme to prevent and control malaria among mothers and children under 5 years of age in the Metropolis. The strategies are retreatment and distribution of ITNs in 25,000 households and families.

 

Previous activities undertaken

    1. Sensitization programmes on the HIV/AIDS pandemic, prevention and control. Care and support for women and children affected or infected by the virus for 125,000 women and children in 25 communities in the Tamale peri-urban(Phase I).

    2. Microcredit programmes in 5 peri-urban districts to enhance economic status of 225 women in 5 Women Self-help Groups(WSHGs) targeting 25 rural areas by empowering access to resources.

Planned (future) activities

    1. Construction for 72,000 litres Hemispherical Ferro-cement tank to harvest rainwater for a population 12,000, five communities in the Tamale South West – Datoyili, Adubiyili, Bavim, Fooshego and Manguli-Kooko. This is to provide at least 25 liters of water to school children and their households to enhance school enrolment and hygiene in 12 Primary and Junior Secondary schools.

    2. Planned strategies to control and prevent tuberculosis in 25 villages in the Tamale Metropolitan Peri-urban. This programme is to adopt the WHO strategy of DOTS to prevent MDR and X-MDR among TB patients in the target communities.

    3. Vocational training to provide options to the over 500 unemployed rural women. Teaching them skills including – tailoring, tye & dye, basket weaving etc.