Funding Priorities
HEALTH
We see good-health as a key driver of economic and social development and therefore support organisations offering vital health services, infrastructure and education to under-served communities in a variety of thematic areas.
SPORT
We are passionate about sport, and rugby in particular, targeting projects using sport as a tool for development. In 2016 NMSI will further partnership with Tag Rugby Trust (TRT), to bring ugby Community Clubs to Ayenyah and surrounding areas. This builds on our previous partnership with TRT where we introduced rugby into schools and communities in Ghana, in addition to leadership and key life skills.
COMMUNITIES
Our commercial work in Ghana is in a number of communities – many of these are remote and dealing with social issues. We target a portion of our financial and technical assistance to community-based projects in geographical areas surrounding our work. We particularly support educational projects.
NMSI Partners & Projects
A Child Unheard
PartnerDuring 2016 NMS Infrastructure has been collaborating with A Child Unheard (ACU) and O'Africa, two charitable causes that NMSI has been supporting in Ghana over the past couple of years, in order to achieve an operational handover of the primary school in Ayenyah, so its future success could be guaranteed. Attendance numbers have almost doubled since ACU took over and NMSI is continuing with its collaboration and support for ACU, with further exciting developments underway.
GIZ
PartnerThe German Federal Government aid agency, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Iternationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), has acknowledges NMSI as a cornerstone partner in its 1.3 million Euro funded project. "Prevention is better than cure"
The main objective of the project is to achieve a better integration of preventative healthcare measures in public and private health sectors around Ghana.
The new District Hospitals will provide GIZ a foundation for planned activities in promoting preventative healthcare by: training the staff of these sites, establishing electronic healthcare management information systems, health screening employees, their families and people within the immediate community, as well as providing accessible preventative health services in the hospitals.
AfriKids
Partnerin 2016 NMSI will be working in partnership with AfriKids. AfriKids is an award winning international development charity with a specific focus on the rights of children. All of their work takes place in Northern Ghana, which hosts the three poorest regions; AfriKids work is predominantly in the isolated and rural Upper East Region (UER) where 64% of the population live in poverty. Their philosophy is to listen to what the community knows it needs and empower them to make the changes themselves whilst ensuring sustainability.
NMSI will be sponsoring the upgrade of the AfriKids Medical Centre (AfMC) based in Bolgatanga, the capital of the UER and one of the poorest districts in the whole country. AfriKids' work in healthcare in the UER is pivotal and the facility treats over 50,000 patients yearly. The sponsorship will be the specifically focusing on improving maternal health and the upgrade of the Maternity Unit and wards. The facility offers pre-natal and post-natal care to woman, as well as family planning and ultrasound scans. Due to the large number of patients, and lack of equipment and items (there is just one of the majority of the larger items), they can often get worn out quickly, and replacements are necessary to continue the good work being carried out.
Environment360
PartnerNMS Infrastructure will be continuing to sponsor Environment 360 works in 2016 by sponsoring the printing of 5,000 activities books which support the education of students about recycling programmes. This further builds on the support that NMSI gave with the Children's education campaign to prevent another generation from littering the environment.
have been supporting Environment360 with a children’s education campaign to prevent another generation from littering the environment.
In 2014, a mobile exhibition has been created to take the message to children - the original idea of having a static display was found to be sub optimal as schools lack the resources to cover travel costs.
The company’s support enabled the illustration to be prepared for inclusion in booklets, games, etc.
Noyaa School Association
PartnerNoyaa Association School supports Jamestown street and working children and their families through education and social services. Noyaa is thriving and attendance has grown from 47 to an average of 80 children in education, with their families benefiting from community empowerment, public health awareness campaigns and other social programming.
NMS Infrastructure will continue to support the school by operationally funding the school for the next academic year 2016-2017. This builds on the last 3 years where NMSI has been the sole partner in aiding this school to continue with its success in ensuring that education is received by the under privilege children of Jamestown.
O'Africa
PartnerO’Africa is based in the village of Ayenyah near to NMSI’s Dodowa Hospital site. They support orphans and vulnerable children, aiming to keep families together and avoid institutionalisation. OA currently supports over 500 children and their families, indirectly supporting over 4500 through their work with Ghana’s Department of Social Welfare.
NMSI will continue to support O'Africa in 2016 with the sponsorship of the annual living expenses of 10 special needs children in family support services. This builds on all the previous activities completed with NMSI and O'Africa.
In 2014 NMSI sponsored beneficiary children to ensure they were able to receive an education. In 2015 the partnership continued with NMSI re-building the community health centre and donating medical supplies and equipment to upgrade the facility, which supports O’Africa, who donated this facility to the Ghana Health Service.
Our staff and their families have volunteered at the centre and we have found their holistic approach to social support refreshing and highly effective.
Tag Rugby Trust
PartnerTag Rugby Trust is a UK based charity with experience running projects across Africa. They have supported grassroots rugby movements in Zambia, Uganda, Kenya and Zimbabwe. Their projects help communities, teachers and children build relationships and key life skills.
In 2016 NMSI will once again partner with the TRT to bring rugby community clubs to Ayenyah and the surrounding areas. This is a great build on previous sponsorship with them.
In 2014 the first programme was started in Accra. In February 2014, 10 days of training in schools in the Madina Area was completed which resulted in over 350 children being introduced to Tag Rugby and 80 of these children playing in a final tournament. Furthermore, 25 coaches and 6 young leaders gained their TRT level 1 coach certificated.
Eight schools in total were introduced to tag rugby, including a special needs school, during this programme in 2014. Overall with the continued work by NMSI colleagues over 1000 children were introduced to tag rugby over a 12 month period.
Ghana Rugby Football Union
PartnerNMSI was a proud sponsor of the GRFU and the Black Eagles. Having signed an MOU in May 2013 we supported them with in-kind technical assistance, expert coaching, provision of the national strip, travel costs to tournaments.
NEWS
The Ayenyah community health clinic located 5 miles from Dodowa District Hospital was donated to the community by the charity OAfrica founded in October 2002 by Lisa Lovatt-Smith. The facility serves the local rural community to provide basic health provision including vaccination of local school children.
With the help of NMSI and the Dodowa site manager, Francis Yore, the project involved taking down the previous building and erecting a new facility ensuring a long term sustainable solution and a more functional area for the nurses to administer health care whilst upgrading some of the equipment.
From beginning to end, the project took 2 weeks to complete and was led by volunteers James Hsu and William Hsu (sons of NMSI’s Deputy Chairman Fred Hsu), Charlie Stevens and Jeremy Elmhirst.
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NMS Infrastructure and GENELEC Support Services partnered withStarr 103.5FM to donate to victims of last two week’s twin disaster at the 37 Military Hospital. Floods hit the national capital Accra amidst a fuel station explosion that killed over 150 people, leaving several others with life-threatening injuries in various hospitals across Accra.
NMS Infrastructure and GENELEC partnered AMS and Sons, Zenith Hygiene Systems, Aqua Fina and Starr FM to donate medical supplies and relevant assorted items worth tens of thousands of Cedis to support survivors of the twin disaster at the hospital.
The acting Commanding Officer for the 37 Military Hospital, Colonel Yeboah Agyapong thanked the group for their benevolence. He told Starr News the hospital “would like to thank GENELEC and NMS Infrastructure for their donation. The things that they donated are the ones that we need the most. We want to assure them that their effort won’t be in vain.”
Source: Ghana/starrfmonline.com/103.5FM
NMS has partnered with OAfrica to support 47 children to continue to attend school during this school year. In our commitment to supporting local, community charities we have pledged support to OAfrica based near our Dodowa site in the village of Ayenya. OA works with vulnerable children and their families to keep them out of institutions and in a home environment while continuing their education. They provide social and financial support in a sustainable way, working with family members to undertake training and developing income-generation schemes enabling them to support their children and keep them out of orphanages.
Meet Kwame, 5, Kofi, 7 and Francis 9 – three brothers who unfortunately lost their father. Afterwards their mother could not afford to send them to school or provide enough food for them to eat – resulting in them becoming severely malnourished. They were referred to OAfrica to prevent them being placed in an orphanage. Now they receive our support, all three boys are attending school, they are steadily gaining weight, and have lots of energy to play.
NMSI has successfully launched our fundraising appeal for the Noyaa Association School in Jamestown, Accra. We have been lucky to be on the receiving end of great generosity from partners and colleagues in the UK and Ghana. A fundraising evening, held in Accra on 10th July was a brilliant event and chance for guests to learn more about this fantastic charity. The children from Noyaa performed along with an acrobatic Jamestown dance troupe to the delight of the crowd. With ticket sales, donations, pledges and an auction we were able to raise $9,300, which will fund the running of the school for 6 months. A further $11,000 has been raised over a period of 3 years from take-up of the ‘250 Club’. Our aim is to enable the school to sustain itself over 3 years after NMSI builds a new structure. There are several ways to donate and become part of this process and very worthy cause.
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