Hohoe Orphanage is in desperate need of a consistent supply of clean water, $2000 is needed to drill a bore to provide water.
Hohoe Christian Orphans’ Home (HCOH) was founded in 2003 by Nicholas Abibu Koku Victus. Nicholas, and other concerned citizens, decided to make an effort to help the needy, under-privileged, deprived, and destitute children in the Volta Region, and in the Hohoe District in particular.
HCOH is a non-profit, volunteer-run, Non Governmental Organization (NGO). The mission of the Hohoe Christian Orphans’ Home is to mobilize these unfortunate children of circumstances and provide them with care, love, education, and employable skills that will make them capable of taking charge of their own lives in the future, and to not become a burden on society.
HCOH aims to provide facilities to meet the physical, social, educational, and moral needs of needy and destitute children and teenage mothers in Hohoe District. In surveying the region, with a population of over 164,000, we have identified over 6,000 under-privileged orphans and destitute children in Hohoe District. Most of these children – many who live on the streets, are child laborers, or teenage mothers – spend their days begging for money or selling water or other petty items. Most of these unfortunate children are left at the mercy of the street where they are exposed to health hazards and physical and moral dangers.
We have identified and registered over 168 poor and needy children who are to be catered for, but due to financial constraints we have the means to care for only 80 children at this time.
In the past 9 months we have built a new Orphanage/ schoolhouse. Monies have been raised from caring individuals outside of Ghana. The new orphanage houses 40 children and schools 80. At the present time our water supply is from a storage tank filled by catching rainwater from the roof, however, with inconsistent rain it is proving inadequate and an alternative is desperately needed, a bore would supply us with a constant flow of clean water.