Paul Semeh, SCEF

1. Welcome! Akwaaba!

2. Content
History of SCEF
Vision, Mission and Values
Our Approach
Our Sustainability Plan
Our Impacts
Our Strategic Plan: SAPE Agenda 2030
Our Challenges

3. History of SCEF
• SCEF was founded in 2010 by Paul Semeh inspired by his life also on the streets and
during his national service at the Street Academy.
• He started this a baseline study that revealed the following:
• 36% of 356 children is street situations interviewed had barriers in accessing their rights to
basic education in Accra.
• These barriers falls within funding for required school equipment and tools like uniforms, school
backpacks, exercise books, text books, and other forms of abuses.
• Parents/guardians of children in street situations wanted opportunities to be self-reliant.
• SCEF’s headquarters is at Palledium, James Town, Accra Central in Ghana and also
registered in Germany, Finland and USA with the other country offices operating
virtual office and fundraising roles.

4. Field Work in 2010
Petteri, a member of founding team, collecting
information on the field in James Town
Paul Semeh, Our Founder, collecting a child info on the field

5. We strive for all
children, regardless of
their differences, to
have equal opportunities
to reach their fullest
potential by 2030.
Vision

6. the lives of street and vulnerable
children in Accra Central and any other
areas in which we operate. We resolve
that our work is done closely with
children, their families, the schools
they attend, and their communities
through advocacy, educational support,
complimentary education services, grass-
roots enterprises, and local self-led,
self-capitalized microfinance.
Mission

7. Values
Honesty and Confidentiality
Trust is built with absolute truths and keeping the confidence of both
partners.
Accountability and Transparency
Prudent use and records of income, expenses, and audited reports
Professionalism
Mutual respect for the dignity of all team members and participants
identity. A professional attitude works to maintain good
workplace.
Passion
Strong desire and dedication to serve the needs of vulnerable
the direction of SCEF.
Innovation
Through collaboration and the passion of team members, SCEF
in transforming the landscape for vulnerable children.

8. Our Approach
SCEF’s mission is to rescue, rehabilitate and reintegrate street children in
Jamestown, Accra through a unique social work concept
Rescue
• Identify children
walking about at school
hours
• Implement a
background survey
• Understand their
challenges
• Identify their
parents/family to seek
their consent
Rehabilitate
• Provide three months of
basic literacy education
• Engage in art and sports
• Prepare entry into
mainstream schools
• Encourage family
involvement by
requiring contribution,
regardless of size, in the
form of school fees,
uniforms, textbooks, etc.
Reintegrate
• 2 Primary forms: within
mainstream schools and the
family.
• This builds family bonding
and gives the child a sense
of normalcy and belonging
in a typical school setting.
• Partner with other
organizations to provide
professional fellowships and
mentorships

9. Sustainability Strategy
In order to be sustainable, our direct interventions with children are coupled with support
for parents and guardians.
GOAL: Through involvement in sustainable social enterprise, the parents/guardians of
our beneficiaries are empowered to take responsibility for the development and
economic support of their children within 5 years of beginning the program:
o Mobilize urban saving and loan circles for the parents/guardians of children in street
situations . Through these groups, we educate families to understand the basics of
escaping poverty.
o Provide self help and life skills training workshops and on-on-one counselling in
parenting, working smart, and saving to raise capital. These resources help invest
parents in the education of their children as a route out of poverty and living within
means.
o Operate a parent-directed fair trade shop that serves as a collector of products,
featuring grass-roots products and businesses from any parent.

10. Our Achievements
In the last 10 years we have:
• Rescued over 450 Street children
• Mobilized about 10% of education resources
from parents and guardians, demonstrating their
commitment
• Provided over 20,000 hours of supplementary
literacy, art, sports, health, tutoring, and other
forms of educational enrichment
• Partnered with over 250 volunteers, coming from
Ghana and abroad
• Through our Learning Hub, provided a facility
of educational and creative learning
opportunities for over 10,000 children coming
from the broader Jamestown community and
central Accra

11. Our Strategic Plan

13. AREAS OF SCEF INTEREST
SCEF believes and is working to achieve six (6) Sustainable Development Goals and have written
our events to achieve them:

14. Pillar 1- Safeguard

15. Pillar 2 - Advocacy
Key Focus Areas
1. right to basic education is properly
implemented.
2. create awareness about the rights
of children.
3. To lobby for effective policy and
promote quality and holistic
education across the community,
Objectives
1. Increase social media
2. Partner with 5 advocacy groups
3. To make the right to childhood and
education a national agenda item by
2023
4. Participate in at least one Global
Climate Strike

16. Pillar 3 - Partnership

17. PILLAR 4 - EMPOWER
SCEF focuses on the area of
family development and the
economic independence of
guardians and families. We
empower guardians
through capacity building
workshops, programs for
economic development, and
support groups to take
responsibility and ownership
of their own financial
independence.
Key Focus Areas
 Establish stronger relationships with partner
organizations in specific fields to develop more human
capital in the areas of capacity building. These
partnerships will lead to workshops and connections to
ignite and unlock the full potential of our
microenterprises.
 Hosting activities that will enable parents to
understand their rights and responsibilities as a parent
of a street connected child in order to produce more
accountability amongst parents.
 Advocacy on rights of women and conventions
 General life counseling
 Life skills development

18. SAPE
Programs and Projects
Projects
• CHaW
• RIB
• WASH
CGE
YASH Project

19. CHAW PROJECT
(TheSmileHouse)
1 Mainstream Public School (Basic School)
2 Vocational training institutes for adolescents who find strength in
vocational training
AreaforRescue
Areas in the Ashiedu
Keteke sub metro
The basic
goals for the
CHAW project
Rescue 100 street connected children for this
fiscal year
Empower and sensitize parents during the rehabilitation process on
the conditioning of their children
Educate street connected children on
Literacy, numeracy and basic life skills
MODE OF IMPLEMENTATION
1.June – August : Rescue and Rehabilitation of 10 Street Connected Children
2.September – November : Rescue and Rehabilitation of 20 Street Connected Children
3.December – March : Rescue and Rehabilitation of 30 Street Connected Children
4.March – April : Rescue and Rehabilitation of 40 Street Connected Children
Requirements for Mainstream
Admission
1
3
Children from age 6 to 14 years
Street Connected Children who find themselves in
areas prone to street work or hazardous work.
Children of street Connected Families.
School requirements for Children

20. RIB
Library Prefects and Librarian Training – 2 days
Monitoring of schools – 1 week
Donation of 1000 extra books to SCEF

21. Library prefects training for Rural school to be completed on
26th November and that for the Urban schools on 27th
November 2020.
Venues for the trainings have been secured and trainings
done.
Adedeinkpo Basic School - Urban Training Venue
Odumprala Basic School – Rural Training venue

22. Book Aid intention to send extra
1000 books to SCEF to furnish
our Learning Hub Library

23. Centre for Grassroots’ Enterprise (CGE)
Operations
• USLA: 3 Active groups of 28 women and few men
• CGE Facility Rentals (RCAA Hall & Omanye Shop): CGE, Nursing
College
• Secretarial Services: soon to open to the general public.
• Bank Accounts for CGE and USLA opened with UBA Bank.
Online options underway.
• Bakery : Hiring of a baker to run the shop and split profits with
SCEF since this is our best option so far

24. YASH Project
YASH seeks to promote adolescent sexual health among
teenagers in Jamestown and Nima by encouraging human
right to sex education in order to prevent issues such as
teenage pregnancy, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
and single parenthood.
A partnership between SCEF and UNFPA Yole Fellows is
being solicited to facilitate an event on Sexual and
Reproductive Health Awareness on 19 November 2020.

25. YASH Workshop
The workshop will take place at the
Learning hub with Facilitators from
UNFPA. They are coming along with
Educational materials, T-Shirts for 30
participants.

26. Our Challenges
In the last 10 years we encountered the
following:
• Guidance to define a full fledged project with
SMART goal setting to Impact Street children
• Resources to adequately measure impact and
keep accurate records of the ins and outs of the
Foundation. eg. Quick Books was not available
for NGOs in Ghana until the Moracle story
• Restriction from best fundraising websites,
platforms and grants. E.g. PayPal, Global Giving,
etc.
• Lack of cooperation from key stakeholders and
support from Ghana.

27. How we make our
impact happen!
• Become a godparent today!
We are supported by individual regular donors (godparents) for SCEF to provide
scholarships to help children in street situations claim their right to education and
have a successful start to their life.
• Making a Family Self-Reliant!
We are actively working to get support from individuals and organizations to help us
create safety nets and a vibrant family livelihood around each of the children that we
serve to lift the entire community around the children we serve. This is mainly done
through economic and livelihood empowerment activities reach children’s parents,
guardians and other community members.
 Become an team member!
Join our enthusiastic team of volunteers and interns at the frontline of grassroots
street/community work to serve children and families in street situations!
 Advocate for street children!
“Spreading the word” is a valuable contribution to our work and helps us find new
supporters: one time donors; corporate donors/partners; etc.