How does the Organization Raise Money?

Sometimes external donors help the organization to run its day-to-day activities. However, we have found out that there has not been enough influx of monetary aid from donors to support our mission. Due to this, the organization is expanding its farming activities in Ghana to generate income to help community members and create jobs for the widows. Farming products will be shipped from Ghana to the US to help members in this country. The organization has also secured plots of land in Ghana for all African-American widows who want to build houses and relocate to Ghana.

 

How We Use Our Funds

The beneficiaries are seniors over 65, widows who have children less than 16 years old, and children below 16 years with cancer. We help them register for health insurance and pay the health insurance provider directly to cover their financial costs. Eligibility: Applicants apply for assistance via the website (must be a member via membership form - no cost). There is a preliminary interview completed with a board member to solidify candidacy. The applicant is required to display medical bills and/or financial needs. Costs may not be paid in full. We want to stick to providing costs up to $3,000 per year per client, helping 300 people per year for now.

 

How to Fund Our Projects

Our projects are funded by assistance from donors. Some of the funds we get are used to help our members and farming activities to generate more money for other projects. Our farming project activities are currently going on in Ghana. We have started our farming activities in January 2021. We have a long-term goal of planting cashew cash and mango crops within the next three years. 

 

How do we Award Scholarships to Students?

We provide school supplies for widowed children: They have to complete claim benefit forms for school supplies. There is a preliminary interview completed with a board member to solidify candidacy. We ship school supplies to individuals. The giving cycle for school supplies is from May through August. We want to stick to providing costs up to $35 per child per year, helping 300 students per year throughout the United States and Ghana. We also have a scholarship program that commenced in August 2021. The eligibility requirements for the scholarship are an essay expressing needs and having been already accepted into a community college. The Board of Directors assesses applications and chooses recipients. The amount for the scholarship is $3k per year for community college, helping 10 students per year. Recipients must maintain a 3.0 GPA.

 

Why do we Need donor Assistance?

COVID-19 has impacted most of our women and their children, especially those who have recently lost their husbands because of the pandemic. Your support for these widows will comfort them from the catastrophe that had happened to them. Please, support our widows. This organization provides health insurance for widows, older citizens, and children with cancer. The organization also pays medical prescriptions for these unfortunate people and is creating business opportunities for the widows to be economically independent. Survival hood, long life, and human peace depend mostly on the socio-economic condition of a person. Are we keeping our wealth and letting these unfortunate people like widows suffer to die? Our widows and their children and those with cancer diseases, poverty, and hunger need your assistance to survive, so, please, help them.

 

How does the Organization Measure its Performance?

The organization can measure its performance by seeing how many people it serves each year. This organization has provided much assistance to its members. Within the last five years, the organization has hired two lawyers who handle matters in court on behalf of these poor widows in Ghana. Between 2013 to 2021, about 102 affected widows were assisted by the organization's lawyers who provided them with legal aid services in court, of which 80 cases have already been won, and the rest are still pending in court. The organization has provided health insurance for over 750 widows and their children during the 2013 and 2021 enrollment periods. It has also provided school supplies to more than 600 children of these widows. We have started business operations in the US since April 2020.

 

The organization is accountable to the State of Virginia Commission, the IRS, and the Department of Social Welfare in Ghana. So, every year it files its previous year's financial report for them to review, approve, and reissue a new certificate. Failure to do that would result in the revoking of the organization's certification. As of now, the organization has firmly focused on its mission, and everything is going well.