Home is supporting The Dorcas Foundation which helps widows in northern Ghana to improve their livelihoods and provide a better life for their children. The first contribution to Dorcas from Home has been made this month.
   Home will be supporting a scholarship scheme to enable the children of widows in   Nalerigu, in the far north, to complete High School. Meanwhile, the widows themselves have been learning how to use fertilizer, thanks to a gift from a charity  sale at a school in Oxford.
   The widows who farm had requested fertilizer so that they could improve the yield from their crops. This was requested when Renny Gye, our Treasurer here at Home, visited them last November.  The time came for fertilizing the fields and an agricultural trainer went up to Nalerigu with Michael Kumah, the Dorcas Programme Manager, to teach the widows how best to use their fertilizer.  Each widow also received a bag of fertilizer.  This project was well received, as the widows had been unable to use fertilizer due to the cost and had usually had poor yields from their small farming plots.
   Over the next two months, the scholarship programme will be prepared and widows and their children will make applications for support for the new school year which starts in September.  By finishing High School, rather than dropping out to go to the bigger cities in central and southern Ghana, these young people will have a much better start to their adult life.  Their mothers have asked for this support, saying that it will make all the difference.
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