School Infrastructure Initiative - Harvest Education Complex | KNEF Ghana

HK$2,173.10

Raised

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.

School entrance where we have to put up fences.

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.

50 logs of wood will be used for building new classrooms and teachers' rooms.

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.

Harvest school main hall and entrance get a makeover

We have a plan to pave a footpath around the playground and add more structures for the children to play on.

Reception area and outside of the school.

Our goal is to build six classrooms for primary one to six. We will also need a second toilet so we can separate girls and boys. We would also like to build a teacher's office and a library.

Students in Primary One Classroom

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			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.

KNEF (K. Nyame Educational Foundation) is a Federally registered Canadian Not-for-Profit corporation and a registered charity with Ghana charity commission (076331). Harvest Education Complex is registered to operate as a Private Educational Institution under the Ghana Education Service Act 506 Of 1995.