Annual Report Bebo Foundation 2007
Looking back
BEBO Foundation has applied herself to micro financing in 2006, after it
was already obvious that the development projects transferred to the local
community could only survive with permanent financial support. Ghanaian culture
is at odds with cooperative or collective projects. BEBO Foundation’s
strategy has been finetuned to this and can be summarized as follows:
Teaching young people, both older orphans as well as
the local youths, a trade in small, independent, profitable enterprises. Offering talented people the
opportunity to start their own enterprise with financial support.
Catchwords are: educational, sustainable,
profitable. Outcome: Vocational training, labour, food, personal responsibility.
Progress in 2007
BEBO Foundation invests in people by promoting vocational training.
Seven years of development work has taught us that sustainable development
thrives best under exclusive personal responsibility. Therefore BEBO turns more and more to finding committed
prospective entrepreneurs full of initiative and talent. She finances, coaches
and monitors these keen new
entrepreneurs, combined with internal vocational training for underprivileged
young people. A combination of vocational training together with profitable
production is a first-rate possibility in
Social and cultural activities
Besides educational and economic development BEBO Foundation pays
attention to the social and cultural aspects. Not only is this the adhesive for
Ghanaian society, but also for international cooperation. BEBO Foundation takes
care of ten hot meals a week for ten needy elderly people in the village,
maintains a computer center installed in the local primary school with 650
students and sponsors locally a cultural band and a football team.
Preview
Projects in preparation for implementation in 2008 are an educational
vegetable and fruit garden near a rescue home for young women in difficult
circumstances (e.g. ex-prostitutes) and a health center (Primary Health Care).
However BEBO Foundation’s main theme remains:
Vocational training and small loans with supervision
for young entrepreneurs. The Ghanaian
organisation BEBO Association
will be expanded on behalf of support for young entrepreneurs.
Albert Stroeve, secretary of BEBO Foundation, March 25 2008