is a 20 member Registered Basic School Children between the ages of 9 and 14 years from various communities and schools initiated in January 2007.Welcome to the Maltiti Child Foundation Website
We would like to share with you the important work we are doing in the area of empowering and strengthening children in our rural communities of Ghana. Please read through the information provided and contact us with any questions or comments. We are always looking for more funding and resources so please let us know if you are able to help in any way.
To donate much needed funds to MCF, please use the following account information:
Account Name: Maltiti Child Foundation Account
Account Number: 4568
Bankers: National Investment Bank - Tamale Branch
For international donors, please use the Barclays account: 033- 1103594 Barclays
Thank you,
Ibrahim Abdallah (Prince)
Programme Director
Quality education for children, especially girls and women is the most powerful weapon in the global fight against poverty, disease, and hunger. That's why when world leaders agreed to the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to end world poverty, two of the eight goals focused on education for all. In fact, they made getting more girls into school the very first of all the MDGs to fall due - with a target date 2005. Unfortunately, UNESCO and ILO has it that 104 million children are currently out of school (57% girls) and one out of three children in the world will either never go to school or drop out before finishing primary level, while UNESCO also records that 20 million more girls than boys are out of school at primary level. Only half of developing countries have equal numbers of girls and boys in primary school, and only 20% have achieved gender parity at secondary level.
In another development, reports by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) and ILO/IPEC.2003. (Ghana Child Labour Survey) indicates that, about 1.27 million children in Ghana between five and 17 years of age are engaged in activities classified as child labour. The report further indicates that 1.03 million children engaged in child labour were under the age of 13 years. The children are involved in activities such as prostitution, drug peddling, domestic work, farming, fishing, street hawking, stone breaking, sand winning, forestry, animal rearing, and "Kaya ye" and are working in dangerous and hazardous working environments. Children, who should, of necessity, be in school acquiring knowledge and life-planning skills are instead engaged in the activities described above. Therefore it is incumbent on us that, the rights of children, their mental and physical needs be addressed to prepare them adequately for a better future.
This concern has given rise to the formation of numerous child support organizations to focus on children's welfare. However, the reality is that, the urban child is given more attention to the neglect of the rural child. Most of the activities of these well meaning organizations are regrettably centered on children in the urban areas, creating a gap between the rural and the urban child in their development. This development is worrying to many, something that has influenced Prince I. Abdallah to form an organization- MALTITI CHILD FOUNDATION - to bridge the gap.
MALTITI CHILD FOUNDATION or (MCF)
is a registered community based charity organization in Northern Ghana, engaged in lobbying and advocacy for Child Rights and Development.
The term "Maltiti" is a common phrase in Northern Ghana meaning "Support us to Develop"
The need for establishing this organization was found based on observations and studies on the situation of children and women in Northern Ghana and the World at large by Prince Ibrahim Abdallah. The core issues, centered on the plight of rural children who are marginalized and deprived of basic rights and necessities required for their social upbringing and livelihood.
MALTITI CHILD FOUNDATION (MCF) was therefore initiated to gear its efforts towards advocating for support to rural women and children to enable them meaningfully participate in social and economic programs and facilitate access and involvement in national programmes and development.