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HOPELAND CENTRE

 

CAS owns a centre, known as Hopeland Centre in Adjei Kojo near Ashaiman, not far from Accra. Hopeland is a department of CAS, and provides a sort of half way house for street children who want to leave the streets and be educated. The time they spend at Hopeland varies.

Street children who want to leave the streets and be educated, follow the preparation course provided at the House of Refuge.

For the child it is a first step towards leaving the streets and living in a new environment. At the centre, the child receives more attention from social workers and staff. Forty children, 20 boys and 20 girls,
can stay at Hopeland. Several become functional literates, other learn a skill.

At Hopeland, children go through preparation lessons as a way of helping them to take decisions for their future. Depending on their choice they are either supported in learning a trade or go to school. They follow lessons in literacy, mathematics, English, health education and life skills. It is a continuation of what they have learnt at the House of Refuge.

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