The SCASO project is in response to increasing the protection and provision of comprehensive development and integrated services to children with single parents, children living with chronically ill parents, children affected by HIV& AIDS and children orphaned by AIDS or any other cause. The project was implemented by World Vision-Ghana with funding from the United State Agency for International Development (USAID - Ghana) in two regions of Ghana, namely Eastern and Western regions and within ten (10) districts. Eastern Region implementing partners worked within eight (8)
Geographic areas: Western region. STMA & Ahanta West
districts whereas Western Region had two (2) districts namely Ahanta -West and Sekondi-Takoradi
Metropolis.
Life Relief Foundation (LRF) was the lead organisation implemented in the Western Region. LRF
worked with thirty–five (35) Community Care Coalition members, ten (10)
community-based organizations, sixty (60) teachers, hundred and fifty (150) peer educators and
sixty (60) home visitors in both districts. Additionally, twenty (20)
communities in the Sekondi Metropolitan Assembly and Ahanta West district benefitted from the
project.
The communities are Ntankoful, Diabene, Kojokrom, Sekondi-Zongo,
Bakaekyir, Kwesimintsim, Assakae, New-Takoradi, European Town and Effiakuma. Ahanta West
District communities were Agona Nkwanta, New Amanful, Kejabil, Dixcove, Mpatase,
Kwamekrom-Fasin, Butre, Asemko, Nyameyiekrom and Apemanim.
The peer educators and teachers offered HIV/AIDS education through AB HIV Alerts Clubs and
psychosocial counselling services in 20 selected educational institutions,
whilst the home visitors, offered psychosocial counselling services, social, nutritional, home
visits and referral services to Orphans in their 20 communities.
During that year, nine hundred and twenty (920) OVC registered members received various benefits
which included psychosocial counselling, three hundred and thirty-four (334) National Health
Insurance Cards, eighty (80) Birth Certificates, ninety-four (94) PTA dues and eighty-five (85)
examination fees for Junior High School pupils. Other benefits included payment of school fees
for forty-four (44) Senior High School students, twenty-eight (28) vocational institutions and
set-up tools.
Additional benefits were community HIV and AIDS education, mobile testing and counselling, which
reached exactly five hundred and thirty-eight (538) people. AB messages in schools also reached
a total number of twenty-five thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven (25,937) youths, breaking
down to thirteen thousand six hundred and forty-eight (13,648) males and twelve thousand two
hundred and eighty nine (12,289) females.
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