POLICY PLAN

The LUMEN MUNDI Foundation sees the environmental challenge as focus to keep the world safe for all beings, including the intellectual and/or physical challenged persons.

2024

• Set up a sensory room.

• Finish the fence around the property of the foundation.

• Obtain a bus for transporting the children.

• Build a proper kitchen.

• Prepare the second classroom, so it can be used by the seamstresses during the hot season.

• Investigate if a second class can be started for a second group of children.

• Install in the school a small health centre for the Naasa community, as a dependency of Siniensi clinic.

• Develop saleable products to be produced in the Lumen Mundi community-based workshop.

• Expand training possibilities for young adults in the Lumen Mundi community-based workshop.

• Investigate the possibilities for making woven products (e.g. shopping bags, curtains, sunshades) from waste material (like plastic, cloth) in the Lumen Mundi community-based workshop.

• Obtain retail space in Sandema where Lumen Mundi products can be sold.

• Find sponsoring for solar panels.

• Develop a plan to generate extra income by investigating the possibilities for a private school.

Evaluation 2024

• We were able to finish a sensory room. The room is used every day for the children who cannot walk. They get a massage and the teacher is playing with them. The children are enjoying it very much.

• The fence is closed. Our Community-Based-Workshop welded the gate and one of the apprentices welded th iron parts in the wall. It is left with plastering and painting.

• Due to a huge donation we were able to buy a mini bus. Children travel much more safe now.

• The kitchen is not built yet. We hope this will be done in 2025.

• The seamstresses are now working in the secons classrooom. It is very conveniant. Next year we will decide how to use the rest of the second classroom.

• We did not start a second class. We did take in 3 more students. There are 18 students now.

• There are plans made to give small room to a CHIPS compound in the school. This has to be done together with the Naasa community.

• The Community-Based-Workshop made a lot of products. From aluminium pots to chairs, bicycles and chopboxes. People want to buy products, but the Community-Based Workshop is in need of a nice place where they can exhibit and sell the products.

• Training new apprentices is postponed to 2025.

• We did buy a loom. The Community-Based-Workshop can manufacture them. We seek a teacher who can weave with plastic and small pieces of cloth.

• We are still looking for a sponsor for solar pannels.

• A privat school is discussed, but because we are not sure of enough children, we don’t want to take the risk of starting one. Another issue is, that so much attention has to go to the Lumen Mundi School,we think, there will not be enough time to work with a second school too.

Policy 2025

• Have a  ‘try-out’ with 2 elderly boys of the school (David and Arafat) to help in the Community-Based-Workshop.

• Built a kitchen.

• Put up a polytank to be used for the Naasa community.

• Together with the Naasa Community we want to make the plans for a CHIPS compound clearer.

• Find a place to exhibit and sell products made by the Community-Based-Workshop.

• Enlarge the small vegetable garden at the back of the school. The vegetables are grown with natural fertilizer and the school’s own green waste. The vegetables that are not needed for school meals will be sold.

• Examen the possibilities for a garden near a river, to grow maize, millit, rice, yams. If we are able to grow an 2 acres of each, we can use it for meals in school or sell it to retrieve more income. We need also a person to supervise this project.

• The Community-Based-Workshop will seek a connection with the National Apprenticeship Programme.

• Find a teacher who can weave with plastic and small pieces of cloth.

• Develop new saleable products to be made in the Lumen Mundi community-based workshop.

• Attract a physiotherapist or a physiotherapist in training, either from Ghana or from the Netherlands or Belgium. (Though we still operate in a code orange area.)

• Develop a plan for building some houses near the school, where the children will be able to live in small groups, either during school weeks or full time.

• Talk to te Paramount Chief Azantilow. We would like to restore the old buildings on the Derbah grounds, to be converted into a shop for the Community-Based-Workshop. Next to that we want to transform the 2 smaller buildings for other artisans. We will get rent out of it.

• Find more possibilities for a cash-flow: examine a small water-factory.

Policy 2026

• Produce and place bins in Siniensi and Sandema at drinking spots to collect water sachets.

• Write a program for out students who are working in the Community-Based-Workshop

• Built a boarding house for 12 children: 6 boys and 6 girls.

• Start to look for good personnel for the boarding house.

• Open the second classroom for new children (end the waiting list), find 2 new teachers and an assistant.

• Extra bus to convey the children plus a driver.

• Find an auditor, who wants to work parttime for us.

• Make a new place for the seamstresses to work.

• Find a donor for a solar-system.

• Open a water-factory to sell drinking water in Wiaga, Siniensi and Doninga. Using eco-friendly sachets. We are looking for a place in the school building to achieve this.

• Embark on the garden outside our premisses. Saw in the raining season.

• Partition the container of the Community-Based-Workshop in three parts: an office, a storeroom for tools and a storeroom for consumable materials (nails, screws etc.)

Policy 2027

• Find an extra driver, so the management can focus on their work.

• Look for Ghanaian doners for a second boarding-house.

• Find more land in Naasa for the building plans.

• Attract a staff member who can coach the intelligent challenged young adults in their work.

• Train one of our staff members to go round with our intelligent challenged adults to find scrap material.

• Extra storage outside the workshop for waste (re-usable) materials: plastic, wood, aluminium, iron. This space should be divided and roved.

• Find a new janitor/handyman, because the janitor goes on retirement.

Continuous activities

• Search for possibilities for extra income and support in Ghana.

• Provide support to the parents, the caregivers and teachers in acceptation of these children to deal with their disabilities regarding care, nutrition, clothing and teaching; in having an eye for the child’s talents and developing these at its personal level.

• Make the children visible in a positive manner by excursions in the community and shared playgrounds. Non-disabled children will be involved in the school.

• Organise short training courses (on-demand courses).

• Cooperation with Social Welfare, Ghana Education Service, and the local schools to get their support for students with only a physical disability, who may attend a regular primary school in due time.

• Maintain good contacts with The District Assembly, Ghana Education Service, Social Welfare and Ghana Federation of Disability Organisations.