Welcome to the Child Care Foundation in Ghana

Child Care Foundation is a non-profit, non-governmental organization established in 2004 by me, Lila M. Djaba when I was 24 years old. I set up the Foundation to provide free education for disadvantaged children. Based on their performance, where promising, I enroll them into regular schools. The Foundation is registered with the Ghana Department of Social Welfare as a charity (Registration No. DSW2845) currently we are helping orphans, child workers, street kids and vulnerable children grow up in healthy, nurturing environments that provide quality care, protection, education, and support.

The Child Care Foundation (CCF) operates a FREE school in Mallam, a suburb of Accra (capital of Ghana). The school has two teachers, two administrators (one being myself) and several other local volunteers who assist periodically. It operates from a small building on family land. While they are divided into grades (depending on education level) and have different class materials, they are all taught in a single classroom.

Currently our funding is from several concerned Ghanaian families and individual donations from friends of CCF in the United States and Europe. The friends of CCF tend to be made up of visitors who have visited us while on a visit to Ghana and have pledged to help.

Our children are mainly from a nearby rock quarry, the local marketplace and the local lorry station. The children work to support their families (often breaking rocks for gravel; helping their mothers run their shops or selling all kinds of wares on the streets as hawkers) instead of going to school. They are working not only because their families ask for their help, but also because the family cannot afford to send them to school.

CCF also tries to provide some early childhood education at our school. This comes in the form of a nursery school/kindergarten, and for the older ones the school teaches the basics of reading and writing. Our wards' ages range from 5 to about 15yrs. The ages of many are not known. The skill level ranges from nursery school up to around grade 4.