Education, which is the act of acquiring knowledge, skills, attitudes, beliefs, and habits, can occur in formal or informal settings and can be self-directed or aided by others. Its purpose is to assist individuals in improving their skills and knowledge to enable them to lead productive and meaningful lives, and hence its core cannot be…
Life is full of unknowns, and nothing is definite. An average individual may not comprehend the awful agony a woman goes through when she loses her husband. This is not easy to deal with, and it requires a lot of aid to get through what happens next. Aside from the agony of their loss, some widows…
“This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it (Psalm 118:24). The beauty of the day is not that it is new, but that we are being made new. The glory of the day is not that it marks a change, but that we are being changed.”…
People might be wondering why now? Starlight Foundation’s annual ‘Let’s Feed the Street Together’ is fast approaching and they might have not accessed how hard it is for people to live their lives in recent times. For us at Starlight Foundation, ‘the willingness to share does not make us charitable, it makes us free’ (Robert…
December is nearly upon us and we at Starlight Foundation come knocking on your doors again. The street needs us! Yes, the street needs us! In our flagship annual project ‘Let’s Feed the Street Together,’ we embark on a mission to feed over one thousand street-deserted children who are underprivileged and by no fault of…
The beneficiaries under the “Menso Meka Ho Bi” initiative who went through an intensive two (2) months of skills acquisition under Pastries & Baking, Drinks & Ice Cream and Soap & Detergent making have successfully graduated and are ready for business. As part of Starlight Foundation’s goal to set the beneficiaries up after acquiring the…
In Ghana, the free education policy at the primary and secondary school levels ensures that every child can be educated. However, other costs associated with these students’ day-to-day activities are not covered by the government, making it difficult for underprivileged and street-connected children to meet their basic needs while attending school. Street-connected families in Ghana…
If you ask a street-connected child why he or she is not in school, their ideal response is, “My parents can’t afford it, so I’m finding a life on the street.” We at Starlight Foundation graduated our first batch of beneficiary skills trainees under phase one of the “Menso Meka Ho Bi” initiative at Teshie…
