Giving Back

A Child Unheard

During 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

The 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

in 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

NMS 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

Noyaa 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

O’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

Tag 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

NMSI 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.