“It’s a great feeling ‘cause you get the chance to transform someone who has never been to school before, and you see such a child writing his or her name, it’s amazing.” The life of a social worker at the Challenging Heights Hovde House Rehabilitation Shelter is more than checking in on a child every […]
Hair dresser, tailor, concrete designer, auto mechanic, welder, carpenter and more. The oldest rescued children being rehabilitated at the Challenging Heights Hovde House were taken on a bus-tour style “Career Day,” gaining crucial exposure to many different apprenticeship opportunities in the area. First stop was a local hairdresser in Swedru. Three girls are on the […]
As the Challenging Heights Community Stakeholder’s Manager, Mr. Mensah settles disputes between families quarrelling about who should be responsible over a child. In one case, a man impregnated a woman and she had a little boy. For years, though, the man never accepted his role as the child’s father. In Ghanaian culture, the father is […]
“I hope that my appeal will be granted so that together we can create a country safe for all children while enabling all children to enjoy their basic rights to education and proper parental care and support.” This passionate request was made at the press conference launch of Challenging Heights-led research on Ghana’s Livelihood Empowerment […]
Research results launched in Ghana today have highlighted how the Government’s Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme can be optimized. The study shows that LEAP has positive effects regarding both material and non-material aspect of well-being and care for children. It further shows that these advantages can be increased if implementation challenges such as delay […]
Before heating the coals and smoking fish to sell at market, participants of the Challenging Heights Livelihoods Programme started from the ground up. They pounded bricks and smoothed edges to construct smoking ovens from a mud mixture made from termite mounds. The hard work came with wide smiles. This is the work they women grew […]
Challenging Heights strongly asserts that the leaks in the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) are due to weak system in the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC). We therefore request that Rev. Samuel Ollennu and other staff in WAEC connected to the leaks resign immediately. On 18th June 2015, Daily Graphic reported that Mrs. Agnes […]
Between class-work, exam prep and studying, 20 of Challenging Heights School’s oldest students, JHS 2 and 3, got to experience what they learn first hand, with a day-trip visit to The Parliament of Ghana. The students have been learning about Ghana’s three branches of government, especially as they prepared for the Basic Education Certificate Exam […]
Challenging Heights believes that the Government of Ghana is neglecting its 9 million children by failing to fully implement the National Plan of Action (NPA) to end all forms of Worst Forms of Child Labour (WFCL) in Ghana by 2015. The NPA was launched in 2011 with strong commitments to tackle rights abuses such as […]
Shelter staff makes the Hovde House feel like home for rescued children “One of the kids here calls me as his elder brother,” says Stephen Appiah, the newest Shelter Assistant at Challenging Heights’ Hovde House rehabilitation shelter. Stephen doesn’t only look after the 50+ children at the shelter, but he’s become a part of their […]
