Educational Accessibility for Children in Hardship (EACH)

2009 EACH-Presec Annual Report – Summary

EACH-Presec Scholar Award Program is the result of a partnership between EACH (Educational Accessibility for Children in Hardship) Foundation and alumni of Presbyterian Boys' Secondary School. The Each-Foundation makes scholarships available to brilliant but underprivileged primary, junior and senior secondary school students in Ghana.

EACH-Presec specifically focuses on the exceptional students of Presbyterian Boys' Secondary School, Legon-Accra, Ghana. Scholarship recipients receive an award that helps fund their educational expenses, are assigned mentors and are awarded a book prize. Scholarship Recipients This year’s scholarship process was particularly competitive. We recorded a record number of applicants, after extensive efforts by the EACH-Presec Ghana team to publicize the program’s offering and benefits. Congratulations to the 2009 scholarship recipients:

Elorm Azugbe

Musah Azumah Elorm and Musah: well done, you have earned this. Thanks also to members of the scholarship selection team; this year’s process was particularly effective.

Finances

2009 was a very successful financial year for EACH-Presec. After revamping the fundraising program in 2008 to a more focused fundraising effort, we received more than GHS 7,500 in total contributions for 2009. In addition, outstanding pledges at the end of 2009 amounted to over GHS 7,000.

We are happy to say the majority of the contributions came for the leadership of EACH-Presec. This is important because by funding EACH’s work, these leaders have affirmed their commitment to EACH-Presec’s work and to the scholars’ educational needs. Thank you again to our generous donors. Mentorship and work experience

For the second year, in consultation with Paa Kwesi Imbeah, Odade? ’98, of Suuch Solutions (a Ghana based technology consulting firm), EACH-Presec continued the paid internship program for our scholars.

This provided an excellent opportunity for our scholars to gain experience in a professional environment. Elorm Azugbe and Musah Azumah participated in the program and had a great learning experience.

Next Steps

Among the top priorities for EACH-Presec’s leadership team are how to make sure scholars are well supported throughout their time at Presec and how to ensure the program is financially sustainable. To these ends, we will continue to pursue the establishment of an endowment for all scholarships. In particular, our fundraising will focus on endowment-related pledges from key program leaders. In addition, we will target long term investment instruments. Our hope is to secure more funds from committed Odade? to further expand our scholarship program and other activities.

Please visit us at http://eachfoundation.org/eachpresec/

Timothy Kotin, Odade ‘06