Lovey Foundation (UK)

Lovey Foundation (UK) - reg. charity no. 1191631 (England and Wales) At Lovey Foundation (UK) we believe that all children, no matter how poor, should have access to a basic education. Every year we raise funds to help young people in Bawku Municipal District, Upper East Ghana to go to school, especially by providing the uniforms and equipment they need to attend primary school. We work closely with our partner organisation in Bawku to distribute these essentials to the children and ensure that they are supported through their primary education. Our partner organisation in Ghana, Lovey Save Child Workers Foundation, was founded in 2013 by Thomas Aruk Lateef, a teacher who was concerned about the children he saw in the locality of his school in Bawku, north eastern Ghana, engaged in manual labour rather than attending school. On investigation he learned it was because their parents could not afford school uniforms or basic equipment. Thomas set up the Foundation, establishing support from Yaa Asare (a UK resident who was lecturing in Ghana) and Michael Miller from the Church of the Good Shepherd, Brighton. Since this time, significant funds have been raised in the UK to provide children in Bawku with the uniforms and equipment they need to attend school. In 2016 Lovey Foundation (UK) was formally established in Brighton as a Community Based Organisation. Our current constitution was adopted on 2 November 2019 and in October 2020 we became a registered charity. Since 2013, as a result of UK fundraising, 377 children have been supplied with the basic equipment (uniforms, sandals, bags, notebooks and pencils) they need to attend school. We need the continued support of the public in the UK so that future cohorts of children in a part of Ghana which is mainly engaged in subsistence agriculture can access the life-changing opportunity that a basic education offers.