School Infrastructure Initiative - Harvest Education Complex | KNEF Ghana
HK$2,173.10
Raised
2
Donations
HK$312,208
Goal
Harvest is a fast-growing village school outside of Offuman, Ghana. Our students come from surrounding villages, many live in mud huts without plumbing or electricity.
We started out as a kindergarten and now have to upgrade it to elementary.
The school is popular and our classrooms are packed beyond our expectations. Harvest school does charge a minimal school fee, but as our location is in a poor farming community many students cannot pay. Our goal is to offer high standards in education to the poorest community while helping them break the cycle and bridging the gap that exists in rural farming communities.
Harvest is located in a forest of teak trees just off of the main road between the villages. We have no shortage of land that we can use. Thanks to the farmers we have cleared away trees and stumps behind the school where we are growing tomatoes to help fund our school expansion. We have one full acre of land that can be used.
The area surrounding the school is sand and red clay. It makes the school very dusty. We would like to landscape the area to include a paved basketball court that can also be used for tennis, badminton and for the children to learn how to ride bicycles.
We have a plan to pave a footpath around the playground and add more structures for the children to play on.
Cost breakdown (in Cedis and USD) of the items that will be used in construction.
Items | Quantities required | Cost per unit | Amount in Cedis | Amount in USD |
Toilet seats
| 20 units | GH₵ 800/unit | GH₵ 16,000 | $ 2,616.5 |
WC for adults
| 20 units | GH₵ 800/unit | GH₵ 16,000 | $ 2,616.5 |
Windows | 24 units | GH₵ 150/unit | GH₵ 3,600 | $588.7 |
Window frames - 4 ft | 24 units | GH₵ 120/unit | GH₵ 2,880 | $470.9 |
Doors | 24 units (2 doors in 12 rooms) | GH₵ 450/unit | GH₵ 10,800 | $1,766.1 |
Cement | 54 Bags (4.5 bags x 12 rooms) | GH₵ 51/unit | GH₵ 2,754 | $ 450 |
Sand Bags | 30 trips | GH₵ 500/unit | GH₵ 15,000 | $2,452.9 |
Stones or quarry dust | 24 trips | GH₵ 1500/unit | GH₵ 36,000 | $5,887.1 |
Roofing nails | 30 Boxes | GH₵ 85/unit | GH₵ 2,550 | $417 |
Roofing sheets | 30 sheets | GH₵ 800/unit | GH₵ 24,000 | $3,924.7 |
Roofing wood | 1200 pieces of 2x4 | GH₵ 14/unit | GH₵ 16,800 | $2,745.4 |
Blocks | 7,056 blocks for 12 rooms (Approximately 588 blocks per room)
| GH₵ 4/unit | GH₵ 28,224 | $4,615.5 |
Labour
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| GH₵ 61,000 | $9,975.4 |
Total |
| Total | GH₵ 2,35,608 | USD $ 38,502.09 |
Paint, glass panes, and other miscellaneous items will also add up to the cost further.