Educational Projects

Project: Anwia Nkwanta

The PRANA Foundation supports various activities of orphanage in Anwia Nkwanta, a village in the Ashanti Region in Ghana. The orphanage enables children to grow up in a trusted environment and offers basic and secondary education. The objective is to allow the children to develop into strong and independent adults.
Programme activities include agricultural projects that enable the orphanage to become ultimately self-financing. The children learn, for example, to grow vegetables and to keep livestock in order to become self-sufficient. They also learn how to carve out a livelihood through the sale of their produce.

Project: Verkaart helps Kenia

The PRANA Foundation supports 60 orphan girls for a period of 4 years, and so enables them to complete their school curriculum leading to better future job prospects.  In this way the PRANA Foundation sponsors the Dutch “Verkaart Stichting”, a non-profit organisation that provides care for the poorest – providing not just schooling, but also clothing, school uniforms, and basic medical care. The “Verkaart Stichting” has built several orphanages in Kenya and is still expanding its activities – always in close cooperation with local authorities and elders.

Link: http://www.verkaart.nl/

Project: Magic Hospital

The PRANA Foundation sponsors a special project in China that offers socially disadvantaged, neglected and abused children in Beijing a reliable shelter. Through the project, the children come into contact – often for the first time – with music, dance and song; music thus becomes a therapeutic tool that strengthens the children's self esteem and emotional development. In this sheltered environment children experience the respect that is often absent in their usual environment, and they discover that it is worthwhile to learn.

The sponsorship by the PRANA Foundation has gone towards the purchase of musical instruments, and will enable the appointment of a dedicated employee who will be responsible for the coordination of all projects of “Magic Hospital” organisation in China.

Link: http://www.magichospital.org/