Cosmopolitan Vanguard University

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[bt_accordion width=”0″ active_first=”no” icon=”plus-circle”][bt_spoiler title=” THE PROJECT”]
Cosmopolitan Vanguard University, under the umbrella of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation which is a duly registered non-governmental, non-profit organisation which strives to assure the greatest asset which is education to the impoverished cosmopolitan youth, instigating the seed of selflessness, greatness and innovation into them so that they can also go and do likewise in their communities or serve any remote community in the world where there is the need to tackle poverty’s complex root causes.
The Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation was by Dr. Emmanuel Yao Voado, MD. Originally the foundation was named Mawuena Foundation. On the 16th January, 2015, the foundation’s name was changed from Mawuena Foundation to Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation. It was originally established in Ghana as a charitable Trust Deed, duly registered on 21st February, 2014 at the Registrar-General’s Department in Accra with the registration number CG089012014. In the future, as part of the vision we will have sister charities registered in other countries.
Our mission is to deliver the captive of destiny who will then rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the former devastations (poverty) of many generations. It will have the purpose of serving the people of third world countries and the communities assaulted by this rooted poverty in the developed nations.
It will train professionals, in a wide variety and number of courses laying emphasis on research, so that they can impart the changes that their impoverished communities need.
The inspiration came from the fact that most universities in the third world countries and the impoverished communities of the developed nations have not succeeded in instigating values in their students about the fact that, they the students, are the future world leaders and that the solution to poverty’s complex root causes lie in their hands and they have the civil responsibility of learning how the successful individuals and nations made it to stardom so that they can also selflessly strive for the elimination of the curse of poverty in our communities, thus bringing smile to millions of faces in the entire globe.
The Board of Trustees of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation, led by Dr. Emmanuel Yao Voado, MD., the Founder, will select the Management Committee that will see to the day to day administration of the university. He is a Ghanaian neurosurgeon trained in Cuba. He was the medical doctor who first opened a neurosurgical service in the country of Belize. He practiced there for 5 years and worked in the United States of America for 6 years before relocating to Africa in September, 2013. He is working diligently on the cure of Spinal Cord Injuries.
The Cosmopolitan Vanguard University will be located in Akuse in the Eastern Region of Ghana.
The Cosmopolitan University will begin with the following courses but it is important to stress that only the sky will be the beginning of our limit because as resources come into our coffers we will open more faculties.
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 1. University of Medicine”]
a) Doctor in Medicine
b) All Medical Specialties
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 2. College of Nursing”]
a) Certificate Level: Enrol Nurses or Health Assistants
b) Degree Nurses
c) Diplomat Nurses or Registered Nurses
d) Errand Nurses
e) Master in Nursing
f) Ph.D. in Nursing
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 3. School of Pharmacy”]
a) Pharmacy
b) Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Science
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 4. School of Dentistry”]
a) General Dentistry
b) Specialties
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 5. School of Health”]
a) Biological, Environmental & Occupational Health
b) School of Alternative Medicine
c) School of Bioengineers
d) School of Dieticians and Nutritionists
e) School of Health Education and Promotion
f) School of Human Communications-Speech and Language Therapy
g) School of Laboratory
h) School of Occupational Therapy
i) School of Physical Therapy
j) School of Radiography
k) School of Social Work
l) School of Wellness
i. Herbal medicine
ii. Acupuncture
iii. Chiropractic
iv. Massage (Tui na)
v. Exercise (qigong)
vi. Magnetic therapy
vii. Holistic Medicine
viii. Osteopathy
m) Health Studies BA (Hons)
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 6. School of IT”]
a) Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
b) Computer Games Programming
c) Computer Science
d) Computer Security
e) Game Art Design
f) Graphic Design
g) Graphic Design and e-media
h) Graphic Design and Illustration
i) Hardware
j) Information and Communication Technology BSc (Hons)
k) Network Engineering
l) Programming
m) Smartphone Application Development
n) Software Engineering
o) Telecommunications
p) Website design and development
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 7. School of Business”]
a) Accounting
b) Accounting & Business Management
c) Accounting & Economics
d) Accounting & Finance
e) Advertising & Marketing Communications
f) Advertising and Marketing Communications
g) Arts and Festivals Management
h) Business and Globalisation
i) Business and Marketing
j) Business Entrepreneurship and Innovation
k) Business Information Systems
l) Business Management and Economics
m) Business Management and Finance
n) Business Management and Law
o) Business Studies (Economics/Finance/Strategy)
p) Computing for Business
q) Economics
r) Globalized Accounting Studies BA (Hons)
s) Human Resources
t) International Commerce and Logistics
u) International Marketing
v) International Marketing and Business
w) Procurement Specialist
x) Public Administration and Management
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 8. Faculty of Education”]
a) School of Special Education
i. Teachers for the blind
ii. Teachers for the deaf and dump
iii. Teachers for the mentally retarded
iv. Teachers for the handicapped
b) School of Education
i. School of Sciences
a) Mathematics
b) Biology
c) Chemistry
d) Physics
e) Agriculture
ii. School of Arts:
 Geography
 History
 Visual Arts
 Religious and Moral Education
 English
 Social Studies
iii. School of Business
iv. School of Physical Education
v. Education Studies
vi. Education Studies with Languages
vii. Education Studies with Psychology
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 9. School of Sciences”]
a) Biochemistry (Molecular and Cellular)
b) Biological Sciences
c) Biomedical Sciences
d) Biotechnology
e) Chemistry
f) Earth Sciences (Geology)
g) Materials Science
h) Mathematics
i) Microbiology
j) Physics
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 10. School of Engineering”]
a) Architecture
b) Civil Engineering & Structural Engineering
c) Electronic Engineering
d) Engineering Year Zero
e) Food Process Engineering
f) Industrial Engineering
g) Mechanical Engineering
h) Mechatronics BEng (Hons)/MEng
i) Mining Engineering
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 11. School of Agriculture”]
a) Cosmopolitan School of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness
b) Cosmopolitan School of Agronomy
c) Cosmopolitan School of Family & Consumer Sciences
d) Cosmopolitan School of Soil Sciences
e) Cosmopolitan School of Veterinary Medicine
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 12. School of Arts”]
a) Cosmopolitan School of Music
i. Audio and Recording Technology
ii. Creative Sound Technology
iii. Music Technology BSc (Hons)
iv. Music, Technology and Innovation
v. Music, Technology and Performance
vi. School of Classical Music
vii. School of Contemporary Music
viii. School of Folklore Music
b) Cosmopolitan School of Dance
(i) School of Classical Dance (Ballet)
(ii) School of Contemporary Dance
(iii) School of Folklore Dance
c) Cosmopolitan School of Creative Writing
d) Cosmopolitan School of Fashion, Design and Textiles
i. Fashion Design
ii. Textile Design BA (Hons)
iii. Fashion Textiles and Accessories
iv. Fashion Buying with Marketing
v. Fashion Buying and Design
vi. Footwear Design BA (Hons)
vii. Furniture Design BA (Hons)
viii. Product and Furniture Design
ix. Product Design
e) Cosmopolitan School of Visual Arts
i. Art Therapy (Art and Psychotherapy)
ii. Audio and Recording Technology
iii. School of Advertising
iv. School of Computer Art, Computer Animation & Visual Effects
v. School of Design
vi. School of Fine Arts
vii. School of Illustrations and Cartooning
viii. School of Interior Design
ix. School of Photography
x. Visual and Critical Studies
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 13. School of Journalism”]
a) Journalism
b) Media and Communication
c) Media Production
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 14. School of Law”]
a) Business Law
b) Law and Criminal Justice
c) Law and Economics
d) Law
e) Law, Human Rights and Social Justice
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 15. School of Aviation”]
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 16. School of Divinity”]
a) School of Bible Exposition
b) School of Biblical Counselling
c) School of Educational Ministry and Leadership
d) School of Media Arts & Worship
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 17. School of Languages”]
a) Arabic
b) Chinese
c) Dutch
d) English Language
e) French
f) German
g) Greek
h) Hausa
i) Hebrew
j) Hindu
k) Italian
l) Japanese
m) Korean
n) Portuguese
o) Russian
p) Spanish
q) Swahili
r) Twi
s) Yoruba
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 18. School of Humanities”]
a) Archaeology and Anthropology
b) History and Politics
c) History of Arts
d) Human Sciences
e) Philosophy, Politics and Economics
f) Sociology
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 19. Research Institute”]
a) Cosmopolitan Institute of Tropical Medicine
b) Cosmopolitan Institute of Medicine
c) Cosmopolitan Institute of Statistics
d) Miscellaneous Studies
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 20. Faculty of Marine”]
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 21. Virtual University”]
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 22. Community Dev.”]
a) Youth Work and Community Development
b) Integrated Community Development
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 23. Faculty of Planning”]
a) Housing, Communities and Regeneration
b) Real Estate Development
c) Real Estate Management
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 24. Faculty of Psychology”]
a) Psychology
b) Psychology with Criminology
c) Psychology with Education Studies
d) Psychology with Health Studies
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 25. Cinematography”]
a) Drama Studies
b) Film Studies BA (Hons) / With Languages
c) School of Photography and Video
d) School of Film & Video
e) TV and Film Production Technology
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 26. Faculty of Criminology”]
a) Criminal Investigation with Policing Studies
b) Criminology and Criminal Justice
c) Criminology and Criminal Justice with Psychology
d) Policing Studies (Practice)
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 27. Political Sciences”]
a) Economics and Politics
b) Politics
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 28. Faculty of Diplomacy”]
a) International Relations
b) International Relations and Politics
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 29. Energy & Power”]
a. Cosmopolitan School of Atomic Energy
b. Cosmopolitan School of Electrical Engineering
c. Cosmopolitan School of Oil and Gas Engineering
d. Cosmopolitan School of Solar Energy
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 30. Faculty of Sports”]
Undergraduate:
a) Physical Education
b) Physiology and Sports Science
c) Recreation
d) Sports and Exercise Science
e) Sports Studies
f) Sports, Media and Culture
Postgraduate:
a) Performance Coaching
b) Psychology of Sports
c) Sports Coaching and Languages
d) Sports Management
e) Sports Nutrition
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 1. THE SUMMARY”]
Cosmopolitan Vanguard University, under the umbrella of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation which is a duly registered non-governmental, non-profit organisation which strives to assure the greatest asset which is education to the impoverished cosmopolitan youth, instigating the seed of selflessness, greatness and innovation into them so that they can also go and do likewise in their communities or serve any remote community in the world where there is the need to tackle poverty’s complex root causes.
The Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation was by Dr. Emmanuel Yao Voado, MD. Originally the foundation was named Mawuena Foundation. On the 16th January, 2015, the foundation’s name was changed from Mawuena Foundation to Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation. It was originally established in Ghana as a charitable Trust Deed, duly registered on 21st February, 2014 in the Registrar-General’s Department in Accra with the registration number CG089012014. In the future, as part of the vision we will have sister charities registered in other countries.
Our mission is to deliver the captive of destiny who will then rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the former devastations (poverty) of many generations.
It will have the purpose of serving the people of third world countries and the communities assaulted by this rooted poverty in the developed nations.
It will train professionals, in a wide variety and number of courses laying emphasis on research, so that they can impart the changes that their impoverished communities need.
The inspiration came from the fact that most universities in the third world countries and the impoverished communities of the developed nations have not succeeded in instigating values in their students about the fact that, they the students, are the future world leaders and that the solution to poverty’s complex root causes lie in their hands and they have the civil responsibility of learning how the successful individuals and nations made it to stardom so that they can also selflessly strive for the elimination of the curse of poverty in our communities, thus bringing smile to millions of faces in the entire globe.
The Board of Trustees of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation, led by Dr. Emmanuel Yao Voado, MD., the Founder, will select the Management Committee that will see to the day to day administration of the university.
The headquarters of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation will be located in Bundase in the Greater Accra Region.
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 2. ABOUT GHANA”]

Ghana is located in Western Africa and borders Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, and Togo. The country occupies a total area of 238,533 square kilometres and has a population of approximately 29,786,408 as of January 5, 2019. The population of West Africa is estimated at 387,246,061 people as of January 8, 2019.

Formed from the merger of the British colony of the Gold Coast and the Togoland Trust Territory, Ghana in 1957 became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence. Ghana endured a series of coups before Lt. Jerry RAWLINGS took power in 1981 and banned political parties. After approving a new constitution and restoring multiparty politics in 1992, RAWLINGS won presidential elections in 1992 and 1996 but was constitutionally prevented from running for a third term in 2000. John KUFUOR of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) succeeded him and was re-elected in 2004. John Atta MILLS of the National Democratic Congress won the 2008 presidential election and took over as head of state, but he died in July 2012 and was constitutionally succeeded by his vice president, John Dramani MAHAMA, who subsequently won the December 2012 presidential election. In 2016, however, Nana Addo Dankwa AKUFO-ADDO of the NPP defeated MAHAMA, marking the third time that the Ghana’s presidency has changed parties since the return to democracy.

 

Economy:

Ghana has a market-based economy with relatively few policy barriers to trade and investment in comparison with other countries in the region, and Ghana is endowed with natural resources. Ghana’s economy was strengthened by a quarter century of relatively sound management, a competitive business environment, and sustained reductions in poverty levels.

Agriculture accounts for about 20% of GDP and employs more than half of the workforce, mainly small landholders. Gold, oil, and cocoa exports, and individual remittances, are major sources of foreign exchange. Expansion of Ghana’s nascent oil industry has boosted economic growth, but the fall in oil prices since 2015 reduced by half Ghana’s oil revenue. Production at Jubilee, Ghana’s first commercial offshore oilfield, began in mid-December 2010. Production from two more fields, TEN and Sankofa, started in 2016 and 2017 respectively. The country’s first gas processing plant at Atuabo is also producing natural gas from the Jubilee field, providing power to several of Ghana’s thermal power plants. As of 2018, key economic concerns facing the government include the lack of affordable electricity, lack of a solid domestic revenue base, and the high debt burden. The AKUFO-ADDO administration has made some progress by committing to fiscal consolidation, but much work is still to be done. Ghana signed a $920 million extended credit facility with the IMF in April 2015 to help it address its growing economic crisis. The IMF fiscal targets require Ghana to reduce the deficit by cutting subsidies, decreasing the bloated public sector wage bill, strengthening revenue administration, boosting tax revenues, and improving the health of Ghana’s banking sector. Priorities for the new administration include rescheduling some of Ghana’s $31 billion debt, stimulating economic growth, reducing inflation, and stabilizing the currency. Prospects for new oil and gas production and follow through on tighter fiscal management are likely to help Ghana’s economy in 2019.

In a recently published analysis based on World Values Survey data, the Austrian political scientist Arno Tausch maintained that several African countries, most notably Ghana, perform quite well on scales of mass support for democracy and the market economy. The spread in the performance of African countries with complete data, Tausch concluded, “is really amazing”. They stress that one should be especially hopeful about the development of future democracy and the market economy in Ghana and that there is recent optimism, corresponding to economic and human rights data, emerging from Africa, is reflected in the development of a civil society.

Ghana saw an improved performance in 2017 after a difficult 2016. The West African country saw an 8.3 percent growth in 2018. According to the 3rd edition of the Ghana Economic Update, the service sector bounced back, and the fiscal consolidation is paying off. The inflation rate is also down to just less than 10 percent. In January, Ghana’s benchmark stock index achieved the world’s highest rate of growth at 19 percent.

GDP (purchasing power parity): $134 billion (2017 est.)
GDP (official exchange rate): $47.02 billion (2017 est.) (2017 est.)
GDP – real growth rate: 8. 3% (2018)
GDP – per capita (PPP): $4,700 (2017 est.)

GDP – composition, by end use:

household consumption: 80.1% (2017 est.)

government consumption: 8.6% (2017 est.)

investment in fixed capital: 13.7% (2017 est.)

investment in inventories: 1.1% (2017 est.)

exports of goods and services: 43% (2017 est.)

imports of goods and services: -46.5% (2017 est.)

GDP – composition, by sector of origin:
agriculture: 18.3% (2017 est.)
industry: 24.5% (2017 est.)
services: 57.2% (2017 est.)

Agriculture – products: cocoa, rice, cassava (manioc, tapioca), peanuts, corn, shea nuts, bananas; timber
Industries: mining, lumbering, light manufacturing, aluminum smelting, food processing, cement, small commercial ship building, petroleum
Industrial production growth rate: 16.7% (2017 est.)

Labor force: 12.49 million (2017 est.)

Labor force – by occupation:
agriculture: 44.7%
industry: 14.4%
services: 40.9% (2013 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 9.6 % ( July,2018.)

[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 3. ABOUT AFRICA”]
Africa is the second-largest continent about 30.2 million km2 (11.7 million sq. mi), after Asia, in size and population. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the west and Europe to the north. The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagos.
The population of Africa is estimated at 1.30 billion people as of 2018 accounting for about 16.64% of the world’s human population. Africa’s population is the youngest among all the continents; 50% of Africans are 19 years old or younger. The median age is 19.4 years. 41% of the population is urban. Algeria is Africa’s largest country by area and Nigeria is the largest by population.
Africa, particularly central Eastern Africa, is widely accepted as the place of origin of humans and the Hominidae clade (great apes), as evidenced by the discovery of the earliest hominids and their ancestors, as well as later ones that have been dated to around seven million years ago.

 

History:
At about 3300 BC, the historical record opens in Northern Africa with the rise of literacy in the Pharaonic civilization of Ancient Egypt. One of the world’s earliest and longest-lasting civilizations, the Egyptian state continued, with varying levels of influence over other areas, until 343 BC.

Climate:
Africa straddles the equator and encompasses numerous climate areas; it is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to southern temperate zones.
The climate of Africa ranges from tropical to subarctic on its highest peaks. Its northern half is primarily desert, or arid, while its central and southern areas contain both savanna plains and very dense jungle (rainforest) regions. In between, there is a convergence, where vegetation patterns such as Sahel and steppe dominate. Africa is the hottest continent on earth and 60% of the entire land surface consists of dry lands and deserts.

Politics:
Today, Africa contains 54 sovereign countries, nine territories and two de facto independent states with limited or no recognition. Connected with the Indian Ocean, the islands of Africa are the Union of the Comoros, Republic of Madagascar, Republic of Seychelles, and Republic of Mauritius. In the Atlantic Ocean we have Republic of Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe. Others are Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, and Eritrea.
The vast majority of African states are republics that operate under some form of the presidential system of rule. The improved stability and economic reforms have led to a great increase in foreign investment into many African nations, mainly from China, which has spurred quick economic growth in many countries, seemingly ending decades of stagnation and decline.
Some seven African countries are in the top 10 fastest growing economies in the world. If you look at countries like Mozambique, Angola, Ethiopia, Zambia, and Togo – all of those markets have shown exceptional growth and real stability and with that you almost get a new investment climate for these countries. This allows you to have a new emerging middle class and with that comes a very vibrant entrepreneurship culture, businessmen or women who want access to technology and to innovate.

Natural Resources:
The continent is believed to hold 90% of the world’s cobalt, 90% of its platinum, 50% of its gold, 98% of its chromium, 70% of its tantalite, 64% of its manganese and one-third of its uranium. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has 70% of the world’s coltan, a mineral used in the production of tantalum capacitors for electronic devices such as cell phones. The DRC also has more than 30% of the world’s diamond reserves. Guinea is the world’s largest exporter of bauxite.

Economy:
From 1995 to 2005, Africa’s rate of economic growth increased, averaging 5% in 2005. Some countries experienced still higher growth rates, notably Angola, Sudan and Equatorial Guinea, all of which had recently begun extracting their petroleum reserves or had expanded their oil extraction capacity.
Several African economies are among the world’s fastest growing as of 2011. As of 2013, these are some of the Africa countries growing by more than 5.0% in real Gross Domestic Product (GDP). These are South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Rwanda, Mozambique, Eritrea, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Gabon, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Mauritania, Niger, Congo, Zambia, Angola, Uganda, Togo, Nigeria, Morocco and Kenya.
Africa really has the ideal conditions for steady economic growth. A skyrocketing population made up of predominantly younger people is the perfect recipe for a booming economy.
In 2018 we continue to see the same trend for population growth. Compared to 2017, African’s overall population has increased by more than 30 million – 1,256,268,025 in 2017 versus 1,287,920,518 in 2018.
The World Bank’s projections for the sub-Saharan Africa area. According to their 2018 projections for the continent: regional GDP growth of 3.2% (compared to 2.4% last year) is expected this year and an even greater increase of 3.5% is forecasted for 2019.
That’s why keeping an eye out for the top African countries with the fastest economic growth in 2018 is a total must for every potential investor. The abundance of natural resources and a young workforce is what has driven the economic surge on the continent in recent years.
A significant number of 2018’s top performers are non-commodity intensive economies. The list is led by Ghana, followed by Ethiopia and Côte d’Ivoire, with Senegal, Tanzania and Djibouti occupying the fourth, fifth and sixth spots respectively. Africa has six of the world’s ten fastest growing economies this year, according to the World Bank.
The latest forecast places East African country, Ethiopia at 8.2 percent with the West African nation, Ghana leading the continent at 8.3 percent. Topping the list from the first to the tenth position are: Ghana, Ethiopia, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Benin, Rwanda and Niger.
As the growth in Africa has been driven mainly by services and not manufacturing or agriculture, it has been growth without jobs and without reduction in poverty levels.
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 4. PERSONAL PROFILE”]
Born in 1971 to a Christian family of scarce resources in Tefle, Volta Region, Ghana, he always dreamed of breaking the back bone of poverty through education. At the age of 12, he received a prophecy that he would be going abroad to further his education. In 1985, at age 14, the prophecy was accomplished but not without difficulties. After taking the exams to send students to Cuba, he placed first in his district but was unlawfully replaced by the son of the most powerful politician of the district. A concerned citizen sent him to the office of President Jerry John Rawlings, when he was allowed to participate in the national test in which he became first. This event was indeed a shock to many.
He was in Cuba for 17 years, right from the junior high school to the medical school and subsequently to the postgraduate specialist course of Neurosurgery. While in Cuba as a student, he continued the brilliant academic work; he won many awards including best student in Chemistry at the Cuban National Level Quizzes for 3 consecutive years where students from 35 countries then studied. He wrote an Organic Chemistry book which was meant for the preparation of the high performance students who aspired to participate in the World Olympiad of Chemistry. He was summa cum laude (first) in all the levels of education including the medical school and the Specialty of Neurosurgery. At the end of the neurosurgical training, he wrote another book in the field of Spinal Surgery called Lumbosacral Discopathies.
When he completed the Neurosurgical course in 2001, the people of Belize found him and took him to that country as they needed Neurosurgical Services which they had never had the privilege of enjoying locally. He performed simple and complex surgeries on many people including the elite of Belize with no surgical mortality in his 5 consecutive years of practice.
In the USA, under Dr. Robert Grossman, a well-known neurosurgeon, he worked as a Clinical Research Specialist where he was invited by the Congress of Neurological Surgeons of America to present six papers in their international conferences.
He is Belizean and American citizen by naturalization. After 28 years, he has decided to come back to Africa to help his people as he has come to the convincing realization that he is more needed here than in the United States of America.
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 5. TRACK RECORD”]
Dr. Emmanuel Voado, MD., is a Ghanaian neurosurgeon trained in Cuba. He was the medical doctor who first opened a neurosurgical service in the country of Belize. He practiced there for 5 years before going to the United States where he resided with his family for 6 years before relocating to Africa in September, 2013.
In Cuba, he was directly involved in the educational system for 17 years and impacted by their health care delivery for 11 years which can all be emulated by third world countries like Ghana who have more natural resources and foreign exchange earners than Cuba. He saw the Cuban government training thousands of students of foreign nations in different courses at the polytechnic and university levels, who then went to their home countries to contribute to their development.
He lived in Belize where he contributed to the healthcare delivery in that nation. Once in the USA, he was personally impacted by all the good things of the American system. One area is the safety network to cater for the destitute.
He saw the compassionate character of the Americans in the hospitals and churches which were the two environments he worked and worshiped and he saw how the two organizations will selflessly use their vacation days to go about doing good to the impoverished nations giving out their substance and technical knowhow.
He was deeply touched by this spirit of selflessness and all this helped to shape his world view in the subconscious level till he came to the conscious realization that a meaningful life is not being rich, being popular, being highly educated or being prefect…It is about being real, being humble, being able to share ourselves and touch the lives of others. It is only then that we could have a full, happy and contented life. That is the motive why, by divine grace, he had been able to abandon the lucrative and most rewarding jobs in the Diaspora and now back home to give back to his people.
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 6. THE PROBLEM”]
Most universities in the third world countries and the impoverished communities of the developed nations have not succeeded in instigating values in their students about the fact that, they the students, are the future community/country/world leaders and that the solution to poverty’s complex root causes lie in their hands and they have the civil responsibility of learning how the successful individuals and nations made it to stardom so that they can also selflessly strive for the elimination of the curse of poverty in our communities, thus bringing smile to millions of faces in the entire globe.
The tendency of sending our young abroad to study so that they can have a different worldview and on their way back implant it creatively for the transformation of our communities and nations has demonstrated to be a failure as the graduates in their majority do not return but stay in the host countries or go to another in search of greener pastures (“brain drain”) or when they come back they get absorbed by the status quo and do nothing to change the paradigm.
In the third world countries, the lack of foresight to the future of children on the part of their parents (who in their majority are also ill-educated) and inadequate counselling of both parents and the ill preparation of educational counsellors at the different levels of pre-university and university are the ultimate cause of students doing the wrong courses for the wrong reasons. For example, a medical doctor who could have been a good lawyer or somebody doing arts who could have been a good science student, just because somebody talked him down and the self-esteem and self-confidence went to the drain never to be recovered.
The theoretical model of training in the universities of the third world countries without an attached application to the real world out there and the conditions unavailable for both inspiration and funding to innovate is the fundamental paralysing force to development.
The job market do not relate closely with the universities to determine what careers they need most to be studied so that when the students graduate they could readily find a job. That is why it a so difficult for polytechnic and university graduates to find a job in the third world, especially, Africa.
The unemployment rate of graduates in Africa is high. You find almost all the students doing Arts and few doing science and we have a greater deficit of scientists to solve our problems and we have to import them with great sums of money, making our national manufactures too expensive to compete with the products from China.
In the medical field in Africa, the leading government and private hospitals are not fully equipped. In the areas in which they are well-equipped, maintenance of equipment is problematic because we have to go South Africa and the developed nations for specialist bioengineers to come and fix them because we have none locally that can repair from the simplest to the most sophisticated equipment. We lack some specialties and medical equipment because the efforts of having a strategic plan for training human resources, especially general medical practitioners, specialists, nurses and other allied health workers at home or abroad for the challenges the health sector is facing or will face in the short term or long term have not yet yielded the expected outcomes. A sustained plan of training the adequate quality and quantity of the new generation that will take the baton when the current generation is gone does not seem to be yielding the expected results.
The efficient hospitals in the developed world have a strong ICT reliance because we need networking to be able to practice telemedicine taking advantage of the technological advancements available, we need computer programming and software staff to prepare the software we need for different reasons in the hospital, we need website developers and graphic designers, hardware, Smartphone application developers, etc. in the modern hospitals of today. In Africa today, except South Africa, this is non-existent.
Having all our health care needs locally is the only way we can stop the efflux of the rich abroad for a better health care when they are also dying in their numbers if it is an emergency condition that does not allow for a sufficient waiting window for its transfer outside the country. We do not have local experts on the diagnosis and treatment of brain aneurysm which is an emergency condition that continues to claim the lives of many in this country. A patient who needs a complex spinal surgery to avoid or improve the condition of paralysis due to a spinal cord injury is in a similar situation because whether the person can pay or cannot pay there is no amount of money that can save his life since emergency treatment is not available in the country.
As we embark on this everlasting journey, to bring a change to the most abandoned segments of our nations, those who have no voice, the destitute and the helpless, we are going to face tremendous challenges in the area of human resources and if we do not have a plan of taking advantage our foreign helpers to train our own local human resources we can never become self-sustainable. If while we are doing this, we help train students from impoverished communities of the world and send them to do likewise then we will be geared in the right direction to eradicate poverty in our communities. We need human resources for the hospital project, where there are not some specific specialists. We are going to need a lot of help from foreigners to run our school for the physically disabled. We would have a Research Institute which will need various scientists who are going to be trained in our university. This university is the strategic answer to these needs and for other needs of these human resources in our country and other impoverished nations.
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 7. THE SOCIETAL NEED”]
The inspiration came from the fact that most universities in the third world countries and the impoverished communities of the developed nations have not succeeded in instigating values in their students about the fact that, they the students, are the future world leaders and that the solution to poverty’s complex root causes lie in their hands and they have the civil responsibility of learning how the successful individuals and nations made it to stardom so that they can also selflessly strive for the elimination of the curse of poverty in our communities, thus bringing smile to millions of faces in the entire globe.
Therefore, there is the need for a university that will serve to:
• train our human resources locally to avoid “brain drain” to the developed countries.
• instil the values of selflessness, greatness and innovation into these students to unleash their unimaginable potentials.
• improve the delivery of health care in the third world countries and impoverished communities of the developed nations.
• reduce poverty.
• train our own leaders who will have “fire burning in their bones” with only one passion: transform their communities to do away with lawlessness, dirty environments, bribery and inefficiency which are the causes of failure of our third world countries and communities.
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 8. THE PROPOSAL”]
8.1 DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT
The Cosmopolitan Vanguard University will strive to create knowledge, to open the minds of students to that knowledge, and to enable students to take best advantage of their educational opportunities. To these ends, the university encourages students to respect ideas and their free expression, and to rejoice in discovery and in critical thought; to pursue excellence in a spirit of productive cooperation; and to assume responsibility for the consequences of personal actions. The Cosmopolitan Vanguard University seeks to identify and to remove restraints on students’ full participation, so that individuals may explore their capabilities and interests and may develop their full intellectual and human potential.
Education at The Cosmopolitan Vanguard University will liberate students to explore, to create, to challenge, and to lead. The support the university provides to students is a foundation upon which self-reliance and habits of lifelong learning are built: The Cosmopolitan Vanguard University expects that the scholarship and collegiality it fosters in its students will lead them in their later lives to advance knowledge, to promote understanding, and to serve society.
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” Materials Science”]
Modern society is heavily dependent on advanced materials: lightweight composites for faster vehicles, optical fibres for telecommunications and silicon microchips for the information revolution. Materials scientists study the relationships between the structure and properties of a material and how it is made. They also develop new materials and devise processes for manufacturing them. Materials Science is vital for developments in nanotechnology, quantum computing and nuclear fusion, as well as medical technologies such as bone replacement materials.
This diverse programme spans the subject from its foundations in physics and chemistry to the mechanical, electrical, magnetic and optical properties of materials, and the design, manufacture and applications of metals, alloys, ceramics, polymers, composites and biomaterials. This work be will be supported by excellent laboratory and teaching facilities.
The course will be taught partly by our Business School, the programme also will offer an opportunity to develop an understanding of entrepreneurship (learning how to write a business plan, raise capital and start a company). There are also voluntary options to learn a language. These Materials scientists shall become the germ cell of innovation from Africa to the world. All medical and ICT (Information and Communications Technology) students would be encouraged to take this subject.
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” Human Sciences”]
All students will be encouraged to study human sciences as a subject in an effort of making them understand fundamental issues and problems confronting contemporary societies. Central topics will include the behaviour of humans, molecular and population genetics, population growth and ageing, ethnic and cultural diversity and the human interaction with the environment, including conservation, disease and nutrition. The study of both biological and social disciplines, integrated within a framework of human diversity and sustainability, should enable the human scientist to develop professional competencies suited to address such multidimensional human problems. This will be an important tool given to them to liberate their people from poverty.
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 8.2 COURSES”]
The Cosmopolitan University will begin with the following courses but it is important to stress that only the sky will be the beginning of our limit because as resources come into our coffers we will open more faculties.
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 1. University of Medicine”]
c) Doctor in Medicine
d) All Medical Specialties
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 2. College of Nursing”]
g) Certificate Level: Enrol Nurses or Health Assistants
h) Degree Nurses
i) Diplomat Nurses or Registered Nurses
j) Errand Nurses
k) Master in Nursing
l) Ph.D. in Nursing
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 3. School of Pharmacy”]
c) Pharmacy
d) Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Science
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 4. School of Dentistry”]
c) General Dentistry
d) Specialties
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 5. School of Health”]
n) Biological, Environmental & Occupational Health
o) School of Alternative Medicine
p) School of Bioengineers
q) School of Dieticians and Nutritionists
r) School of Health Education and Promotion
s) School of Human Communications-Speech and Language Therapy
t) School of Laboratory
u) School of Occupational Therapy
v) School of Physical Therapy
w) School of Radiography
x) School of Social Work
y) School of Wellness
ix. Herbal medicine
x. Acupuncture
xi. Chiropractic
xii. Massage (Tui na)
xiii. Exercise (qigong)
xiv. Magnetic therapy
xv. Holistic Medicine
xvi. Osteopathy
z) Health Studies BA (Hons)
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 6. School of IT”]
q) Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
r) Computer Games Programming
s) Computer Science
t) Computer Security
u) Game Art Design
v) Graphic Design
w) Graphic Design and e-media
x) Graphic Design and Illustration
y) Hardware
z) Information and Communication Technology BSc (Hons)
aa) Network Engineering
bb) Programming
cc) Smartphone Application Development
dd) Software Engineering
ee) Telecommunications
ff) Website design and development
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 7. School of Business”]
y) Accounting
z) Accounting & Business Management
aa) Accounting & Economics
bb) Accounting & Finance
cc) Advertising & Marketing Communications
dd) Advertising and Marketing Communications
ee) Arts and Festivals Management
ff) Business and Globalisation
gg) Business and Marketing
hh) Business Entrepreneurship and Innovation
ii) Business Information Systems
jj) Business Management and Economics
kk) Business Management and Finance
ll) Business Management and Law
mm) Business Studies (Economics/Finance/Strategy)
nn) Computing for Business
oo) Economics
pp) Globalized Accounting Studies BA (Hons)
qq) Human Resources
rr) International Commerce and Logistics
ss) International Marketing
tt) International Marketing and Business
uu) Procurement Specialist
vv) Public Administration and Management
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 8. Faculty of Education”]
a) School of Special Education
v. Teachers for the blind
vi. Teachers for the deaf and dump
vii. Teachers for the mentally retarded
viii. Teachers for the handicapped
b) School of Education
viii. School of Sciences
f) Mathematics
g) Biology
h) Chemistry
i) Physics
j) Agriculture
ix. School of Arts:
 Geography
 History
 Visual Arts
 Religious and Moral Education
 English
 Social Studies
x. School of Business
xi. School of Physical Education
xii. Education Studies
xiii. Education Studies with Languages
xiv. Education Studies with Psychology
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 9. School of Sciences”]
k) Biochemistry (Molecular and Cellular)
l) Biological Sciences
m) Biomedical Sciences
n) Biotechnology
o) Chemistry
p) Earth Sciences (Geology)
q) Materials Science
r) Mathematics
s) Microbiology
t) Physics
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 10. School of Engineering”]
j) Architecture
k) Civil Engineering & Structural Engineering
l) Electronic Engineering
m) Engineering Year Zero
n) Food Process Engineering
o) Industrial Engineering
p) Mechanical Engineering
q) Mechatronics BEng (Hons)/MEng
r) Mining Engineering
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 11. School of Agriculture”]
f) Cosmopolitan School of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness
g) Cosmopolitan School of Agronomy
h) Cosmopolitan School of Family & Consumer Sciences
i) Cosmopolitan School of Soil Sciences
j) Cosmopolitan School of Veterinary Medicine
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 12. School of Arts”]
f) Cosmopolitan School of Music
ix. Audio and Recording Technology
x. Creative Sound Technology
xi. Music Technology BSc (Hons)
xii. Music, Technology and Innovation
xiii. Music, Technology and Performance
xiv. School of Classical Music
xv. School of Contemporary Music
xvi. School of Folklore Music
g) Cosmopolitan School of Dance
(iv) School of Classical Dance (Ballet)
(v) School of Contemporary Dance
(vi) School of Folklore Dance
h) Cosmopolitan School of Creative Writing
i) Cosmopolitan School of Fashion, Design and Textiles
x. Fashion Design
xi. Textile Design BA (Hons)
xii. Fashion Textiles and Accessories
xiii. Fashion Buying with Marketing
xiv. Fashion Buying and Design
xv. Footwear Design BA (Hons)
xvi. Furniture Design BA (Hons)
xvii. Product and Furniture Design
xviii. Product Design
j) Cosmopolitan School of Visual Arts
xi. Art Therapy (Art and Psychotherapy)
xii. Audio and Recording Technology
xiii. School of Advertising
xiv. School of Computer Art, Computer Animation & Visual Effects
xv. School of Design
xvi. School of Fine Arts
xvii. School of Illustrations and Cartooning
xviii. School of Interior Design
xix. School of Photography
xx. Visual and Critical Studies
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 13. School of Journalism”]
d) Journalism
e) Media and Communication
f) Media Production
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 14. School of Law”]
f) Business Law
g) Law and Criminal Justice
h) Law and Economics
i) Law
j) Law, Human Rights and Social Justice
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 15. School of Aviation”]
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 16. School of Divinity”]
e) School of Bible Exposition
f) School of Biblical Counselling
g) School of Educational Ministry and Leadership
h) School of Media Arts & Worship
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 17. School of Languages”]
t) Arabic
u) Chinese
v) Dutch
w) English Language
x) French
y) German
z) Greek
aa) Hausa
bb) Hebrew
cc) Hindu
dd) Italian
ee) Japanese
ff) Korean
gg) Portuguese
hh) Russian
ii) Spanish
jj) Swahili
kk) Twi
ll) Yoruba
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 18. School of Humanities”]
g) Archaeology and Anthropology
h) History and Politics
i) History of Arts
j) Human Sciences
k) Philosophy, Politics and Economics
l) Sociology
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 19. Research Institute”]
e) Cosmopolitan Institute of Tropical Medicine
f) Cosmopolitan Institute of Medicine
g) Cosmopolitan Institute of Statistics
h) Miscellaneous Studies
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 20. Marine & Fisheries”]
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 21. Virtual University”]
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 22. Community Dev.”]
c) Youth Work and Community Development
d) Integrated Community Development
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 23. Faculty of Planning”]
d) Housing, Communities and Regeneration
e) Real Estate Development
f) Real Estate Management
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 24. Faculty of Psychology”]
a) Psychology
b) Psychology with Criminology
c) Psychology with Education Studies
d) Psychology with Health Studies
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 25. Cinematography”]
f) Drama Studies
g) Film Studies BA (Hons) / With Languages
h) School of Photography and Video
i) School of Film & Video
j) TV and Film Production Technology
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 26. Faculty of Criminology”]
e) Criminal Investigation with Policing Studies
f) Criminology and Criminal Justice
g) Criminology and Criminal Justice with Psychology
h) Policing Studies (Practice)
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 27. Political Sciences”]
c) Economics and Politics
d) Politics
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 28. Faculty of Diplomacy”]
c) International Relations
d) International Relations and Politics
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 29. Energy & Power”]
e. Cosmopolitan School of Atomic Energy
f. Cosmopolitan School of Electrical Engineering
g. Cosmopolitan School of Oil and Gas Engineering
h. Cosmopolitan School of Solar Energy
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 30. Faculty of Sports”]
Undergraduate:
g) Physical Education
h) Physiology and Sports Science
i) Recreation
j) Sports and Exercise Science
k) Sports Studies
l) Sports, Media and Culture
Postgraduate:
f) Performance Coaching
g) Psychology of Sports
h) Sports Coaching and Languages
i) Sports Management
j) Sports Nutrition
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 8.3 LOCATION”]
Accra, the capital of Ghana, is furthermore the anchor of a larger metropolitan area, the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), which is home to about 4 million people, making it the largest metropolitan conglomeration in Ghana by population, and the eleventh-largest metropolitan area in Africa.
The headquarters of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation will be located in Bundase in the Greater Accra Region. This is going to be the site for the new international airport which will become the center of West Africa to the world in the travel and pleasure industry. Apart from this huge international airport, there will be an Airport City with skyscrapers of the Dubai style, the seat of the government and all the ministries, an Olympic Stadium among other infrastructures.
We are acquiring 25, 000 acres of land extending from the Volta River to an area behind the new International Airport in Bundase, to build The Kingdom City which will englobe all the structures of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation. As coalition builders, in the effort of making our projects become auto-sustainable in the future, we will work co-operatively with all individuals and groups, for profit and not for profit corporations and organisations, with government agencies and international bodies committed to the fight to extend help to the needy, subject only to the policies and priorities set by our governing bodies.
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” PROJECT PERSONNEL”]
We need foreign architects and contractors who can lead us in building this project. We need the assessment of foreign sister universities, especially from the USA.
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 9. SYNERGY”]
We are grounded on the values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence (I CARE) principle.
We welcome and respect ongoing international initiatives and national policies to take care and give support to students, vulnerable children and disadvantaged people, fight poverty, ignorance and diseases such as Malaria, Immunisable diseases and AIDS. Our activities will be in union and collaboration with other stakeholders.
With your collaboration we both seek to meet the expectation that:
• it will enhance access to quality education tailored to the needs of our third world countries and impoverished communities of the rich nations.
• it will help train doctors, nurses and allied health personnel, business, computer, science and education personnel, who will reduce our chronic deficit of these professionals.
• it would be our humble contribution to the positioning of our countries for success in taking them from their condition of dependable raw material producing countries to manufacturing nations.
• the different corporate bodies will receive this with good pleasure.
• it will not only create a profession for the beneficiaries but also jobs for thousands of our people.
• it will help us possess our own research institutes of the level of the first world to meet the great challenges we have with HIV, Ebola, Malaria and other conditions.
• we would have reduced the “brain drain” to the developed countries so that the third world intellectuals can contribute to the development of their countries.
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 10. FINANCING”]
Our own contribution has been in this project but we acknowledge that we cannot do this alone, so we are calling on donors of every nation to help build this project to affect millions of lives inside and outside Ghana. [/bt_spoiler][/bt_accordion]

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Cosmopolitan Miracles Outreach Team

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[bt_accordion width=”0″ active_first=”no” icon=”plus-circle”][bt_spoiler title=” THE PROJECT”]
Cosmopolitan Miracles Outreach Team (Convoy of Miracles) under the umbrella of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation is established in Ghana as a charitable Trust Deed, duly registered on 21st February, 2014 at the Registrar-General’s Department in Accra with the registration number CG089012014. On the 16th January, 2015, the foundation’s name was changed from Mawuena Foundation to Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation.
This foundation strives to improve the health, material and emotional needs of orphans and vulnerable children, widows and their children, physically and mentally disabled, elderly, students, patients, the poor and the population at large, educating them to prevent diseases, identifying them to pull most of them out of their vulnerable condition through programmes that will uplift them from their predicament to victory where they will become productive to the society.
Our philosophy is based on the reality that every human being is a unique individual and that we all have a right to good health and basic needs and should access means to a comfortable life in one way or another.
We will target the vulnerable groups like the orphans, the widows, the physically and mentally disabled and the poor who will be identified by a rigorous studies of the terrain previously to the day of the realization of the outreach program and give this help to them and then the population of that community at large will also benefit. We hope to take primary health care which is not practically available in Africa to the door step of the individuals in the different communities of Ghana and later with the experience accumulated in Ghana, we shall disseminate to other countries of Africa, taking the good news of primary health care to prolong the life expectancy of our people. The help they need may include knowledge about the prevention of communicable and non-communicable diseases, medical attention, food (for example rice and oil), clothing and toys for the children.  
We shall screen and treat conditions like malaria, high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol and triglycerides, anaemia, heart conditions, cervical cancer, prostate cancer, lung conditions, dental conditions, eye conditions, etc. Children will be checked to know whether they are up-to-date with their immunizations and cards will be issued to them once immunized and follow-up groups will be sent to complete the work started. Some of the patients who cannot be managed in the different health care facilities available in the area will be sent to the Cosmopolitan Miracle Hospitals for further treatment. We shall have mobile clinics some on road and others on the water to attend to patients which we can reach only by ferry. This is the case of the populations who live by the banks of the great Volta Lake/River in Ghana. These mobile clinics will allow us to perform simple surgeries like cleft lips, cataracts,  as they are going to be equipped with mobile theatres.
We will do outreaches through the media by opening a radio and television station that will educate people on their health and perform advocacy.
The Board of Trustees of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation, led by Dr. Emmanuel Yao Voado, MD., the Founder, will select the Management Committee that will see to the day to day administration of the Cosmopolitan Miracles Outreach Team. He is a Ghanaian neurosurgeon trained in Cuba. He was the medical doctor who first opened a neurosurgical service in the country of Belize. He practiced there for 5 years and worked in the United States for 6 years before relocating to Africa in September, 2013. He is working diligently on the cure of Spinal Cord Injuries.
The Cosmopolitan Miracles Outreach Team will be headquartered in Tsopoli in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana.
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 1. THE SUMMARY”]
Cosmopolitan Miracles Outreach Team (Convoy of Miracles) under the umbrella of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation was established in Ghana as a charitable Trust Deed, duly registered on 21st February, 2014 at the Registrar-General’s Department in Accra with the registration number CG089012014. On the 16th January, 2015, the foundation’s name was changed from Mawuena Foundation to Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation.
Our mission is to deliver the captive of destiny who will then rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the former devastations (poverty) of many generations.
Our purpose is to improve the health, material and emotional needs of orphans and vulnerable children, widows and their children, physically and mentally disabled, elderly, students, patients, the poor and the public at large, educating them to prevent diseases, identifying them to pull most of them out of their vulnerable condition through programmes which will uplift them from their predicament to victory where they will become productive to the society.
Our philosophy is based on the reality that every human being is a unique individual and that we all have a right to good health and basic needs and should access means to a comfortable life in one way or another.
We will do outreaches through the media by opening a radio and television station that will educate people on their health and perform advocacy.
The Board of Trustees of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation, led by Dr. Emmanuel Yao Voado, MD., the Founder, will select the Management Committee that will see to the day to day administration of the Cosmopolitan Miracles Outreach Team. He is a Ghanaian neurosurgeon trained in Cuba. He was the medical doctor who first opened a neurosurgical service in the country of Belize. He practiced there for 5 years and worked in the United States of America for 6 years before relocating to Africa in September, 2013. He is working diligently on the cure of Spinal Cord Injuries. The headquarters of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation will be located in Bundase in the Greater Accra Region.
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 2. ABOUT GHANA”]

Ghana is located in Western Africa and borders Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, and Togo. The country occupies a total area of 238,533 square kilometres and has a population of approximately 29,786,408 as of January 5, 2019. The population of West Africa is estimated at 387,246,061 people as of January 8, 2019.

Formed from the merger of the British colony of the Gold Coast and the Togoland Trust Territory, Ghana in 1957 became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence. Ghana endured a series of coups before Lt. Jerry RAWLINGS took power in 1981 and banned political parties. After approving a new constitution and restoring multiparty politics in 1992, RAWLINGS won presidential elections in 1992 and 1996 but was constitutionally prevented from running for a third term in 2000. John KUFUOR of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) succeeded him and was re-elected in 2004. John Atta MILLS of the National Democratic Congress won the 2008 presidential election and took over as head of state, but he died in July 2012 and was constitutionally succeeded by his vice president, John Dramani MAHAMA, who subsequently won the December 2012 presidential election. In 2016, however, Nana Addo Dankwa AKUFO-ADDO of the NPP defeated MAHAMA, marking the third time that the Ghana’s presidency has changed parties since the return to democracy.

Economy:

Ghana has a market-based economy with relatively few policy barriers to trade and investment in comparison with other countries in the region, and Ghana is endowed with natural resources. Ghana’s economy was strengthened by a quarter century of relatively sound management, a competitive business environment, and sustained reductions in poverty levels.

Agriculture accounts for about 20% of GDP and employs more than half of the workforce, mainly small landholders. Gold, oil, and cocoa exports, and individual remittances, are major sources of foreign exchange. Expansion of Ghana’s nascent oil industry has boosted economic growth, but the fall in oil prices since 2015 reduced by half Ghana’s oil revenue. Production at Jubilee, Ghana’s first commercial offshore oilfield, began in mid-December 2010. Production from two more fields, TEN and Sankofa, started in 2016 and 2017 respectively. The country’s first gas processing plant at Atuabo is also producing natural gas from the Jubilee field, providing power to several of Ghana’s thermal power plants. As of 2018, key economic concerns facing the government include the lack of affordable electricity, lack of a solid domestic revenue base, and the high debt burden. The AKUFO-ADDO administration has made some progress by committing to fiscal consolidation, but much work is still to be done. Ghana signed a $920 million extended credit facility with the IMF in April 2015 to help it address its growing economic crisis. The IMF fiscal targets require Ghana to reduce the deficit by cutting subsidies, decreasing the bloated public sector wage bill, strengthening revenue administration, boosting tax revenues, and improving the health of Ghana’s banking sector. Priorities for the new administration include rescheduling some of Ghana’s $31 billion debt, stimulating economic growth, reducing inflation, and stabilizing the currency. Prospects for new oil and gas production and follow through on tighter fiscal management are likely to help Ghana’s economy in 2019.

In a recently published analysis based on World Values Survey data, the Austrian political scientist Arno Tausch maintained that several African countries, most notably Ghana, perform quite well on scales of mass support for democracy and the market economy. The spread in the performance of African countries with complete data, Tausch concluded, “is really amazing”. They stress that one should be especially hopeful about the development of future democracy and the market economy in Ghana and that there is recent optimism, corresponding to economic and human rights data, emerging from Africa, is reflected in the development of a civil society.

Ghana saw an improved performance in 2017 after a difficult 2016. The West African country saw an 8.3 percent growth in 2018. According to the 3rd edition of the Ghana Economic Update, the service sector bounced back, and the fiscal consolidation is paying off. The inflation rate is also down to just less than 10 percent. In January, Ghana’s benchmark stock index achieved the world’s highest rate of growth at 19 percent.

GDP (purchasing power parity): $134 billion (2017 est.)
GDP (official exchange rate): $47.02 billion (2017 est.) (2017 est.)
GDP – real growth rate: 8. 3% (2018)
GDP – per capita (PPP): $4,700 (2017 est.)

GDP – composition, by end use:

household consumption: 80.1% (2017 est.)

government consumption: 8.6% (2017 est.)

investment in fixed capital: 13.7% (2017 est.)

investment in inventories: 1.1% (2017 est.)

exports of goods and services: 43% (2017 est.)

imports of goods and services: -46.5% (2017 est.)

GDP – composition, by sector of origin: 
agriculture: 18.3% (2017 est.)
industry: 24.5% (2017 est.)
services: 57.2% (2017 est.)

Agriculture – products: cocoa, rice, cassava (manioc, tapioca), peanuts, corn, shea nuts, bananas; timber
Industries: mining, lumbering, light manufacturing, aluminum smelting, food processing, cement, small commercial ship building, petroleum
Industrial production growth rate: 16.7% (2017 est.)

Labor force: 12.49 million (2017 est.)

Labor force – by occupation: 
agriculture: 44.7% 
industry: 14.4% 
services: 40.9% (2013 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 9.6 % ( July,2018.)

[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 3. ABOUT AFRICA”]
Africa is the second-largest continent about 30.2 million km2 (11.7 million sq. mi), after Asia, in size and population. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the west and Europe to the north. The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagos.
The population of Africa is estimated at 1.30 billion people as of 2018 accounting for about 16.64% of the world’s human population. Africa’s population is the youngest among all the continents; 50% of Africans are 19 years old or younger. The median age is 19.4 years. 41% of the population is urban. Algeria is Africa’s largest country by area and Nigeria is the largest by population.
Africa, particularly central Eastern Africa, is widely accepted as the place of origin of humans and the Hominidae clade (great apes), as evidenced by the discovery of the earliest hominids and their ancestors, as well as later ones that have been dated to around seven million years ago.

History:
At about 3300 BC, the historical record opens in Northern Africa with the rise of literacy in the Pharaonic civilization of Ancient Egypt. One of the world’s earliest and longest-lasting civilizations, the Egyptian state continued, with varying levels of influence over other areas, until 343 BC.

Climate:
Africa straddles the equator and encompasses numerous climate areas; it is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to southern temperate zones.
The climate of Africa ranges from tropical to subarctic on its highest peaks. Its northern half is primarily desert, or arid, while its central and southern areas contain both savanna plains and very dense jungle (rainforest) regions. In between, there is a convergence, where vegetation patterns such as Sahel and steppe dominate. Africa is the hottest continent on earth and 60% of the entire land surface consists of dry lands and deserts.

Politics:
Today, Africa contains 54 sovereign countries, nine territories and two de facto independent states with limited or no recognition. Connected with the Indian Ocean, the islands of Africa are the Union of the Comoros, Republic of Madagascar, Republic of Seychelles, and Republic of Mauritius. In the Atlantic Ocean we have Republic of Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe. Others are Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, and Eritrea.
The vast majority of African states are republics that operate under some form of the presidential system of rule. The improved stability and economic reforms have led to a great increase in foreign investment into many African nations, mainly from China, which has spurred quick economic growth in many countries, seemingly ending decades of stagnation and decline. 
Some seven African countries are in the top 10 fastest growing economies in the world. If you look at countries like Mozambique, Angola, Ethiopia, Zambia, and Togo – all of those markets have shown exceptional growth and real stability and with that you almost get a new investment climate for these countries. This allows you to have a new emerging middle class and with that comes a very vibrant entrepreneurship culture, businessmen or women who want access to technology and to innovate.

Natural Resources:
The continent is believed to hold 90% of the world’s cobalt, 90% of its platinum, 50% of its gold, 98% of its chromium, 70% of its tantalite, 64% of its manganese and one-third of its uranium. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has 70% of the world’s coltan, a mineral used in the production of tantalum capacitors for electronic devices such as cell phones. The DRC also has more than 30% of the world’s diamond reserves. Guinea is the world’s largest exporter of bauxite.

Economy:
From 1995 to 2005, Africa’s rate of economic growth increased, averaging 5% in 2005. Some countries experienced still higher growth rates, notably Angola, Sudan and Equatorial Guinea, all of which had recently begun extracting their petroleum reserves or had expanded their oil extraction capacity.
Several African economies are among the world’s fastest growing as of 2011. As of 2013, these are some of the Africa countries growing by more than 5.0% in real Gross Domestic Product (GDP). These are South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Rwanda, Mozambique, Eritrea, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Gabon, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Mauritania, Niger, Congo, Zambia, Angola, Uganda, Togo, Nigeria, Morocco and Kenya.
Africa really has the ideal conditions for steady economic growth. A skyrocketing population made up of predominantly younger people is the perfect recipe for a booming economy.
In 2018 we continue to see the same trend for population growth. Compared to 2017, African’s overall population has increased by more than 30 million – 1,256,268,025 in 2017 versus 1,287,920,518 in 2018.
The World Bank’s projections for the sub-Saharan Africa area. According to their 2018 projections for the continent: regional GDP growth of 3.2% (compared to 2.4% last year) is expected this year and an even greater increase of 3.5% is forecasted for 2019.
That’s why keeping an eye out for the top African countries with the fastest economic growth in 2018 is a total must for every potential investor. The abundance of natural resources and a young workforce is what has driven the economic surge on the continent in recent years.
A significant number of 2018’s top performers are non-commodity intensive economies. The list is led by Ghana, followed by Ethiopia and Côte d’Ivoire, with Senegal, Tanzania and Djibouti occupying the fourth, fifth and sixth spots respectively. Africa has six of the world’s ten fastest growing economies this year, according to the World Bank. 
The latest forecast places East African country, Ethiopia at 8.2 percent with the West African nation, Ghana leading the continent at 8.3 percent. Topping the list from the first to the tenth position are: Ghana, Ethiopia, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Benin, Rwanda and Niger.
As the growth in Africa has been driven mainly by services and not manufacturing or agriculture, it has been growth without jobs and without reduction in poverty levels.

[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 4. PERSONAL PROFILE”]
Born in 1971 to a Christian family of scarce resources in Tefle, Volta Region, Ghana, he always dreamed of breaking the back bone of poverty through education. At the age of 12, he received a prophecy that he would be going abroad to further his education. In 1985, at age 14, the prophecy was accomplished but not without difficulties. After taking the exams to send students to Cuba, he placed first in his district but was unlawfully replaced by the son of the most powerful politician of the district. A concerned citizen sent him to the office of President Jerry John Rawlings, when he was allowed to participate in the national test in which he became first. This event was indeed a shock to many.
He was in Cuba for 17 years, right from the junior high school to the medical school and subsequently to the postgraduate specialist course of Neurosurgery. While in Cuba as a student, he continued the brilliant academic work; he won many awards including best student in Chemistry at the Cuban National Level Quizzes for 3 consecutive years where students from 35 countries then studied. He wrote an Organic Chemistry book which was meant for the preparation of the high performance students who aspired to participate in the World Olympiad of Chemistry. He was summa cum laude (first) in all the levels of education including the medical school and the Specialty of Neurosurgery. At the end of the neurosurgical training, he wrote another book in the field of Spinal Surgery called Lumbosacral Discopathies.
When he completed the Neurosurgical course in 2001, the people of Belize found him and took him to that country as they needed Neurosurgical Services which they had never had the privilege of enjoying locally. He performed simple and complex surgeries on many people including the elite of Belize with no surgical mortality in his 5 consecutive years of practice. In the USA, under Dr. Robert Grossman, a well-known neurosurgeon, he worked as a Clinical Research Specialist where he was invited by the Congress of Neurological Surgeons of America to present six papers in their international conferences.
He is Belizean and American citizen by naturalization. After 28 years, he has decided to come back to Africa to help his people as he has come to the convincing realization that he is more needed here than in the United States of America.
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Dr. Emmanuel Voado, MD., is a Ghanaian neurosurgeon trained in Cuba. He was the medical doctor who first opened a neurosurgical service in the country of Belize. He practiced there for 5 years before going to the United States where he resided with his family for 6 years before relocating to Africa in September, 2013.
In Cuba, he was directly involved in the educational system for 17 years and impacted by their health care delivery for 11 years which can all be emulated by third world countries like Ghana who have more natural resources and foreign exchange earners than Cuba. He saw the Cuban government training thousands of students of foreign nations in different courses at the polytechnic and university levels, who then went to their home countries to contribute to their development.
He lived in Belize where he contributed to the healthcare delivery in that nation. Once in the USA, he was personally impacted by all the good things of the American system. One area is the safety network to cater for the destitute.
He saw the compassionate character of the Americans in the hospitals and churches which were the two environments he worked and worshiped and he saw how the two organizations will selflessly use their vacation days to go about doing good to the impoverished nations giving out their substance and technical knowhow.
He was deeply touched by this spirit of selflessness and all this helped to shape his world view in the subconscious level till he came to the conscious realization that a meaningful life is not being rich, being popular, being highly educated or being prefect…It is about being real, being humble, being able to share ourselves and touch the lives of others. It is only then that we could have a full, happy and contented life. That is the motive why, by divine grace, he had been able to abandon the lucrative and most rewarding jobs in the Diaspora and now back home to give back to his people.

[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 6. THE PROBLEM”]
The necessity to get our environment, communities and our individual homes clean and tidy is the principal way of preventing infectious diseases in the third world countries, especially Africa. Dangerous infectious diseases like Malaria, Ebola Virus disease, Typhoid fever, Hepatitis and parasites are only examples of many communicable diseases which take the lives of our precious family members at premature ages just because of the dirty environments we create out of ignorance in our surroundings. Lack of knowledge about the things pertaining to the prevention of both communicable and non-communicable diseases is the main cause of premature death in Africa.
Ghana has more natural resources and income per capita than a country like Cuba, but the Cubans have a much higher life expectancy than Ghana because of the special attention that primary healthcare has in Cuba where the population is educated about the necessity to get their environments clean and a balanced diet that can prevent diseases.
In Ghana people eat, salted fish and very starchy foods on daily basis till they develop stroke and yet they do not still have a clue about what led to their disease was hypertension and diabetes as a result of this unhealthy life style. People are walking on the street with very high blood pressure and high blood sugar levels without even knowing they carry these conditions till the complication due to those conditions pop up in the form of stroke, heart attack, and kidney failure, a time when there is practically little that can be done for them.
There is not sufficient education through the media about the necessity to eat right, to do exercise and to maintain our surroundings clean. Many countries have been able to minimize the prevalence of HIV/AIDS but Africa is still struggling with this condition which is wiping out the youth which are the main workforce of our countries.
Cancer is in Africa too where there is no nationally well-coordinated programmes to help screen these patients and deal with the condition at its earlier stage and hence the high mortality rate of cancers which, in the developed world today, are almost/completely curable if detected earlier.
There are no credible statistics in Ghana about the incidence and prevalence of many diseases. What I know is that my parents died of complications of hypertension, especially strokes before they even knew that they were hypertensive. When one visits the villages of Ghana, both the middle aged and the old aged individuals are paralysed on one side using walking aids and in the worst of the cases, they are bedridden with pressure ulcers and many do not have the possibility of getting access to wheel chairs. When patients go to the doctors in this part of the world, the doctor diagnoses hypertension and/or diabetes and generally no education is given to patients on the non-pharmacologic management of these conditions before prescribing the medications which, in general, are taken for life.
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The inspiration came from the fact that the level of affliction and suffering of orphans and vulnerable children, widows and their children, physically and mentally disabled, elderly, patients, students, the poor and the public at large, can be alleviated through outreach programmes extended to these vulnerable groups of our society.
Therefore, there is the need for an outreach team that will:
• reduce the suffering of the orphans and vulnerable children, widows and their children, physically and mentally disabled, elderly, the poor, students, patients and the public at large by giving them love and care, meeting their physical and emotional needs, educating them to prevent diseases, identifying them to pull most of them out of their vulnerable condition through programmes that will uplift them from their predicament to victory where they become productive to the society.
• ensure non-discrimination and equal enjoyment of all human rights through the promotion of an active and visible policy of de-stigmatisation of individuals and their children orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. We want to build the capacities to provide a supportive environment for individuals infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
• create awareness to the community and the outside world about the need to protect and maintain their health.
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8.1 DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT
The Cosmopolitan Miracles Outreach Team is a dynamic force that is projected to our society to help alleviate the problems of orphans and vulnerable children, widows and their children, physically and mentally disabled, elderly, patients, students, the poor and the public at large.
The outreach team will go to vulnerable communities of our cities, towns and villages to diagnose their needs taking into account the demographics of our target groups, their location and then the outreach execution team will go with the help they need. The help they need may include knowledge about the prevention of communicable and non-communicable diseases, medical attention, food (for example rice and oil), clothing and toys for the children.
We will target the vulnerable groups like the orphans, the widows, the physically and mentally disabled and the poor who will be identified by a rigorous study of the terrain previously to the day of the realization of the outreach programme and give this help to them and then the population of that community at large will also benefit.
We hope to take primary health care which is not practically available in Africa to the door step of the individuals in the different communities of Ghana and later with the experience accumulated in Ghana, we shall disseminate to other countries of Africa, taking the good news of primary health care to prolong the life expectancy of our people.
We shall screen and treat conditions like malaria, high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol and triglycerides, anaemia, heart conditions, cervical cancer, prostate cancer, lung conditions, dental conditions, eye conditions, etc. Children will be checked to know whether they are up-to-date with their immunisations and cards will be issued to them once immunised and follow-up groups will be sent to complete the work started.
Some of the patients who cannot be managed in the different health facilities available in the area will be sent to the Cosmopolitan Miracle Hospitals for further treatment.
We shall have mobile clinics some on road and others on the water to attend to patients which we can reach only by ferry. This is the case of the populations who live by the banks of the great Volta River /Lake. These mobile clinics will allow us to perform simple surgeries like cleft lips, cataracts, etc. as they are going to be equipped with mobile theatres.
We will do outreaches through the media by opening a radio and television station that will educate people on their health. We will champion a strong advocacy voice to the law makers in order to engineer changes in government policies to address these vital issues of primary health care at the political level.
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 8.2 LOCATION”]
Accra, the capital of Ghana, is furthermore the anchor of a larger metropolitan area, the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), which is home to about 4 million people, making it the largest metropolitan conglomeration in Ghana by population, and the eleventh-largest metropolitan area in Africa.
The headquarters of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation will be located in Bundase in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area. This is going to be the site for the new international airport which will become the center of West Africa to the world in the travel and pleasure industry. Apart from this huge international airport, there will be an Airport City with skyscrapers of the Dubai style, the seat of the government and all the ministries, an Olympic Stadium among other infrastructures.
We are acquiring 25, 000 acres of land extending from the Volta River to an area behind the new International Airport in Bundase, to build The Kingdom City which will englobe all the structures of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation. As coalition builders, in the effort of making our projects become auto-sustainable in the future, we will work co-operatively with all individuals and groups, for profit and not for profit corporations and organisations, with government agencies and international bodies committed to the fight to extend help to the needy, subject only to the policies and priorities set by our governing bodies.

 

[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 8.3 RESOURCE ALLOCATION”]
We shall need 3 mobile clinics, a mobile dental clinic, a mobile eye clinic, and a mobile x-ray clinic with ultrasound machine and a mobile surgical theatre. We will also need a mobile ferry with which we will go along the Volta River and River trying to get access to those who cannot be accessed via road network.
As the vision progresses we will have a helicopter to go and convey critically ill patients at far or inaccessible places who without this means of transportation will surely die.
We shall need the following equipment and supplies:
• 10 stretchers to aid in having the patients in the mobile clinics. We need 36 bed sheets and 36 blankets.
• 50 theatre scrubs wears (colours blue and green). Sizes: 20 extra-large, 20 large, 10 medium.
• 200 theatre disposable gowns and 10 theatre shoes (clogs): 3 size m(12/13) and 3 size m(11/10) and 3 size m(9/10), 1 size m(8/9).
• 3 buses for the outreach team.
• 20 glucometres and their consumable supplies.
• 20 cholesterol testing analyzers or lipid profile equipment and their consumable supplies.
• Haeglobin and Haematocrit testing equipment and their consumable supplies.
• Cardio check.
• 20 Sphygmomanometers and 20 Stethoscopes.
• Papanicolau Testing Set to screen women for cervical cancer.
• Vaccines to help immunize on schedule or help catch-up those who did not receive a given vaccine in time.
• 10 laptops for the entry of patient’s data for follow-up purposes and statistics.
• 10 canopies and a sound system for public announcement.
• A radio and TV station to help spread the good news of health care wellness.

 

[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 8.4 PROJECT PERSONNEL”]
Doctors of all specialties can participate together with medical officers, medical students, psychologists, nurses and nursing students, x-ray technicians, laboratory technicians, dentists, drivers and all paramedical and non-paramedical personnel who can volunteer in different capacities.
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 8.5 OTHER TECHNICAL MEANS
We will have 4wheel drive vehicles due to the deplorable nature our roads for the outreach team that will do the research of the needs of the communities we shall visit. They will identify and quantify the vulnerable groups like the orphans and vulnerable children, widows and their children, physically and mentally disabled, elderly, patients, students and disadvantaged people and diseases such as Malaria, Immunisable diseases and AIDS.

 

[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 8.6 TARGET GROUP”]
1. Children orphaned by the death of both parents.
2. Children orphaned by the death of one productive parent where children are left vulnerable in the company of the non-productive widow(er).
3. Widows and their children
4. Physically disabled including the deaf and the blind
5. Mentally disabled
6. Elderly
7. Patients, laying a special emphasis on the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Ebola virus disease, partially immunised and unimmunised patients.
8. Students
9. The poor people of our society that do not have access to food, clothing, toys and health care.
10. The population at large, screening them in search for diseases before they manifest in their bodies or deducting the ones that are there that they ignore.

 

[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 9. SYNERGY”]
We are grounded on the values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence (I CARE) principle.
We also believe in equality for all, rights and dignity for all, stewardship and respects for international initiatives and national policies to take care and give support to orphans and vulnerable children, widows and their children, physically and mentally disabled, elderly, patients, students and disadvantaged people, fight poverty, ignorance and diseases such as Malaria, Immunisable diseases and AIDS.
With your collaboration, we both seek to:
• help the patients of Ghana and Africa as a whole achieve a higher knowledge of their health.
• change the health indicators through education via the mass media, advocacy and practical help to the healthy, to those who are ill and do not know it and to patients.
• diminish hunger as we reach out to those who lack daily bread.
• clothe the naked.
• prolong the life expectancy of our people.

 

[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 10. FINANCIAL PROPOSAL”]
As a matter of fact the finances are coming from our own sources but as the vision progresses we hope to get both local and international donors to help us accomplish the full extension of the programmes we have envisaged.

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Cosmopolitan Home for the Elderly (Guarantors of Favour) under the umbrella of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation is established in Ghana as a charitable Trust Deed, duly registered on 21st February, 2014 at the Registrar-General’s Department in Accra with the registration number CG089012014. On the 16th January, 2015, the foundation’s name was changed from Mawuena Foundation to Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation.
We ensure that our elders are treated with care, dignity and the utmost respect during their final years when they can no longer take care of themselves thereby extending happiness to them. We aim at providing a voice platform for action on the concerns of the elderly, social justice, poverty reduction through self-help initiatives to achieve sustainable development practices and influence policy and practice to end social exclusion and poverty.
Our philosophy is based on the reality that every human being is a unique individual and that we all have a right to good health and basic needs and should access means to a comfortable life in one way or another.
Gone were the days, when the elderly of Africa were well taken care of by their loved ones. These days because of the fact that, their daughters/sons are married and due to the western world’s influence, it is no more easy to take them to their marriage homes because of previous situations that occurred, and also because of the fact that some have almost all the children living abroad and/or very far from their hometowns because of their professional responsibilities, the scenario of Ghana is now looking like that of the first world countries. In these cases, the children rely on close relatives who they pay to be taking care of their parents.
At the Cosmopolitan Home for the Elderly we will be widely known and highly regarded for our comprehensive and individualized treatment.  Quality care will characterize each service provided by our deeply committed staff. Whether helping new residents to comfortably adjust to nursing home life, administering medical treatments or performing clinical assessments, we shall always be mindful of residents’ welfare. Staff members will take pride in seeing our residents chatting, laughing and enjoying themselves with new and old friends.
We shall have the following services:
•    Clinical Services.
•    Short-term and Long-term Rehabilitation.
•    Physical and Occupational Therapy.
•    Resident Social Life and Personal Care.
•    Social Work and Advocacy.
The Board of Trustees of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation, led by Dr. Emmanuel Yao Voado, MD., the Founder, will select the Management Committee that will see to the day to day administration of Cosmopolitan Home for the Elderly. He is a Ghanaian neurosurgeon trained in Cuba. He was the medical doctor who first opened a neurosurgical service in the country of Belize. He practiced there for 5 years and worked in the United States for 6 years before relocating to Africa in September, 2013. He is working diligently on the cure of Spinal Cord Injuries.
The home for the Elderly will be headquartered in Tsopoli in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana.
[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 1. THE SUMMARY”]
Cosmopolitan Home for the Elderly (Guarantors of Favour) under the umbrella of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation was established in Ghana as a charitable Trust Deed, duly registered on 21st February, 2014 at the Registrar-General’s Department in Accra with the registration number CG089012014. On the 16th January, 2015, the foundation’s name was changed from Mawuena Foundation to Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation.
Our mission is to deliver the captive of destiny who will then rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the former devastations (poverty) of many generations.
We have the purpose of ensuring that our elders are treated with care, dignity and the utmost respect during their final years when they can no longer take care of themselves thereby extending happiness to them.
We aim at providing a voice platform for action on the concerns of the elderly, social justice, poverty reduction through self-help initiatives to achieve sustainable development practices and influence policy and practice to end social exclusion and poverty.
Our philosophy is based on the reality that every human being is a unique individual and that we all have a right to good health and basic needs and should access means to a comfortable life in one way or another.
The Board of Trustees of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation, led by Dr. Emmanuel Yao Voado, MD., the Founder, will select the Management Committee that will see to the day to day administration of Cosmopolitan Home for the Elderly. He is a Ghanaian neurosurgeon trained in Cuba. He was the medical doctor who first opened a neurosurgical service in the country of Belize. He practiced there for 5 years and worked in the United States for 6 years before relocating to Africa in September, 2013. He is working diligently on the cure of Spinal Cord Injuries. The headquarters of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation will be located in Bundase in the Greater Accra Region.
                                              

[/bt_spoiler][bt_spoiler title=” 2. BACKGROUND OF GHANA”]
Ghana is located in Western Africa and borders Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, and Togo. This country occupies a total area of 238,533 square kilometers and has a population of approximately 29,786,408 as of January 5, 2019. The population of West Africa is estimated at 387,246,061 people as of January 8, 2019.
Formed from the merger of the British colony of the Gold Coast and the Togoland trust territory, Ghana in 1957 became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence. Ghana endured a series of coups before Lt. Jerry RAWLINGS took power in 1981 and banned political parties. After approving a new constitution and restoring multiparty politics in 1992, RAWLINGS won presidential elections in 1992 and 1996 but was constitutionally prevented from running for a third term in 2000. John KUFUOR of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) succeeded him and was reelected in 2004. John Atta MILLS of the National Democratic Congress won the 2008 presidential election and took over as head of state, but he died in July 2012 and was constitutionally succeeded by his vice president, John Dramani MAHAMA, who subsequently won the December 2012 presidential election. In 2016, however, Nana Addo Dankwa AKUFO-ADDO of the NPP defeated MAHAMA, marking the third time that the Ghana’s presidency has changed parties since the return to democracy.
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Ghana has a market-based economy with relatively few policy barriers to trade and investment in comparison with other countries in the region, and Ghana is endowed with natural resources. Ghana’s economy was strengthened by a quarter century of relatively sound management, a competitive business environment, and sustained reductions in poverty levels, but in recent years has suffered the consequences of loose fiscal policy, high budget and current account deficits, and a depreciating currency.
Agriculture accounts for about 20% of GDP and employs more than half of the workforce, mainly small landholders. Gold, oil, and cocoa exports, and individual remittances, are major sources of foreign exchange. Expansion of Ghana’s nascent oil industry has boosted economic growth, but the fall in oil prices since 2015 reduced by half Ghana’s oil revenue. Production at Jubilee, Ghana’s first commercial offshore oilfield, began in mid-December 2010. Production from two more fields, TEN and Sankofa, started in 2016 and 2017 respectively. The country’s first gas processing plant at Atuabo is also producing natural gas from the Jubilee field, providing power to several of Ghana’s thermal power plants.
As of 2018, key economic concerns facing the government include the lack of affordable electricity, lack of a solid domestic revenue base, and the high debt burden. The AKUFO-ADDO administration has made some progress by committing to fiscal consolidation, but much work is still to be done. Ghana signed a $920 million extended credit facility with the IMF in April 2015 to help it address its growing economic crisis. The IMF fiscal targets require Ghana to reduce the deficit by cutting subsidies, decreasing the bloated public sector wage bill, strengthening revenue administration, boosting tax revenues, and improving the health of Ghana’s banking sector. Priorities for the new administration include rescheduling some of Ghana’s $31 billion debt, stimulating economic growth, reducing inflation, and stabilizing the currency. Prospects for new oil and gas production and follow through on tighter fiscal management are likely to help Ghana’s economy in 2018.
GDP (purchasing power parity): $134 billion (2017 est.)
GDP (official exchange rate): $47.02 billion (2017 est.) (2017 est.)
GDP – real growth rate: 8.4% (2017 est.)
GDP – per capita (PPP): $4,700 (2017 est.)
GDP – composition, by end use:
household consumption: 80.1% (2017 est.)

 

government consumption: 8.6% (2017 est.)

 

investment in fixed capital: 13.7% (2017 est.)

 

investment in inventories: 1.1% (2017 est.)

 

exports of goods and services: 43% (2017 est.)

 

imports of goods and services: -46.5% (2017 est.)

 

GDP – composition, by sector of origin:
agriculture: 18.3% (2017 est.)
industry: 24.5% (2017 est.)
services: 57.2% (2017 est.)

 

Agriculture – products: cocoa, rice, cassava (manioc, tapioca), peanuts, corn, shea nuts, bananas; timber
Industries: mining, lumbering, light manufacturing, aluminum smelting, food processing, cement, small commercial ship building, petroleum
Industrial production growth rate: 16.7% (2017 est.)
Labor force: 12.49 million (2017 est.)
Labor force – by occupation:
agriculture: 44.7%
industry: 14.4%
services: 40.9% (2013 est.)

 

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 9.6 % ( July,2018.)

 

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Africa is the second-largest continent about 30.2 million km2 (11.7 million sq. mi), after Asia, in size and population. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the west and Europe to the north. The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagos.
The population of Africa is estimated at 1.17 billion people as of 2015 accounting for about 16.7% of the world’s human population. Africa’s population is the youngest among all the continents; 50% of Africans are 19 years old or younger. Algeria is Africa’s largest country by area and Nigeria is the largest by population.
Africa, particularly central Eastern Africa, is widely accepted as the place of origin of humans and the Hominidae clade (great apes), as evidenced by the discovery of the earliest hominids and their ancestors, as well as later ones that have been dated to around seven million years ago.

 

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At about 3300 BC, the historical record opens in Northern Africa with the rise of literacy in the Pharaonic civilization of Ancient Egypt. One of the world’s earliest and longest-lasting civilizations, the Egyptian state continued, with varying levels of influence over other areas, until 343 BC.
Climate:
Africa straddles the equator and encompasses numerous climate areas; it is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to southern temperate zones.
The climate of Africa ranges from tropical to subarctic on its highest peaks. Its northern half is primarily desert, or arid, while its central and southern areas contain both savanna plains and very dense jungle (rainforest) regions. In between, there is a convergence, where vegetation patterns such as Sahel and steppe dominate. Africa is the hottest continent on earth and 60% of the entire land surface consists of dry lands and deserts.
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Today, Africa contains 54 sovereign countries, nine territories and two de facto independent states with limited or no recognition. Connected with the Indian Ocean the islands of Africa are the Union of the Comoros, Republic of Madagascar, Republic of Seychelles, and Republic of Mauritius. In the Atlantic Ocean we have Republic of Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe. Others are Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, and Eritrea.
The vast majority of African states are republics that operate under some form of the presidential system of rule. The improved stability and economic reforms have led to a great increase in foreign investment into many African nations, mainly from China, which has spurred quick economic growth in many countries, seemingly ending decades of stagnation and decline.
Some seven African countries are in the top 10 fastest growing economies in the world. If you look at countries like Mozambique, Angola, Ethiopia, Zambia, and Togo – all of those markets have shown exceptional growth and real stability and with that you almost get a new investment climate for these countries. This allows you to have a new emerging middle class and with that comes a very vibrant entrepreneurship culture, businessmen or women who want access to technology and to innovate.
Several African economies are among the world’s fastest growing as of 2011. As of 2013, these are some of the Africa countries growing by more than 5.0% in real Gross Domestic Product (GDP). These are South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Rwanda, Mozambique, Eritrea, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Gabon, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Mauritania, Niger, Congo, Zambia, Angola, Uganda, Togo, Nigeria, Morocco and Kenya.

 

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Born in 1971 to a Christian family of scarce resources in Tefle, Volta Region, Ghana, he always dreamed of breaking the back bone of poverty through education. At the age of 12, he received a prophecy that he would be going abroad to further his education. In 1985, at age 14, the prophecy was accomplished but not without difficulties. After taking the exams to send students to Cuba, he placed first in his district but was unlawfully replaced by the son of the most powerful politician of the district. A concerned citizen sent him to the office of President Jerry John Rawlings, when he was allowed to participate in the national test in which he became first. This event was indeed a shock to many.
He was in Cuba for 17 years, right from the junior high school to the medical school and subsequently to the postgraduate specialist course of Neurosurgery. While in Cuba as a student, he continued the brilliant academic work; he won many awards including best student in Chemistry at the Cuban National Level Quizzes for 3 consecutive years where students from 35 countries then studied. He wrote an Organic Chemistry book which was meant for the preparation of the high performance students who aspired to participate in the World Olympiad of Chemistry. He was summa cum laude (first) in all the levels of education including the medical school and the Specialty of Neurosurgery. At the end of the neurosurgical training, he wrote another book in the field of Spinal Surgery called Lumbosacral Discopathies.
When he completed the Neurosurgical course in 2001, the people of Belize found him and took him to that country as they needed Neurosurgical Services which they had never had the privilege of enjoying locally. He performed simple and complex surgeries on many people including the elite of Belize with no surgical mortality in his 5 consecutive years of practice. In the USA, under Dr. Robert Grossman, a well-known neurosurgeon, he worked as a Clinical Research Specialist where he was invited by the Congress of Neurological Surgeons of America to present six papers in their international conferences.
He is Belizean and American citizen by naturalization. After 28 years, he has decided to come back to Africa to help his people as he has come to the convincing realization that he is more needed here than in the United States of America.
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Dr. Emmanuel Voado, MD., is a Ghanaian neurosurgeon trained in Cuba. He was the medical doctor who first opened a neurosurgical service in the country of Belize. He practiced there for 5 years before going to the United States where he resided with his family for 6 years before relocating to Africa in September, 2013.
In Cuba, he was directly involved in the educational system for 17 years and impacted by their health care delivery for 11 years which can all be emulated by third world countries like Ghana who have more natural resources and foreign exchange earners than Cuba. He saw the Cuban government training thousands of students of foreign nations in different courses at the polytechnic and university levels, who then went to their home countries to contribute to their development.
He lived in Belize where he contributed to the healthcare delivery in that nation. Once in the USA, he was personally impacted by all the good things of the American system. One area is the safety network to cater for the destitute.
He saw the compassionate character of the Americans in the hospitals and churches which were the two environments he worked and worshiped and he saw how the two organizations will selflessly use their vacation days to go about doing good to the impoverished nations giving out their substance and technical knowhow.
He was deeply touched by this spirit of selflessness and all this helped to shape his world view in the subconscious level till he came to the conscious realization that a meaningful life is not being rich, being popular, being highly educated or being prefect…It is about being real, being humble, being able to share ourselves and touch the lives of others. It is only then that we could have a full, happy and contented life. That is the motive why, by divine grace, he had been able to abandon the lucrative and most rewarding jobs in the Diaspora and now back home to give back to his people.

 

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The concept elderly refers to a category of adults who have attained advanced ages, 60 or 65 years. The United Nations uses 60 years to refer to the elderly. In the developed countries where life expectancy is high and the age of retirement from active public economic activity is 65 years, the elderly are defined as persons aged 65 years and above. In developing countries on the other hand, since life expectancy is lower and the age of retirement is 60 years, the elderly are considered as persons aged 60 years and above.
Both the absolute and relative numbers of the elderly population in Africa have been increasing consistently over the years. As a result, aging represents the most significant population shift in history as people are now living longer than ever before. While this is an accomplishment worthy of celebration, our joy is tempered by the awareness that many older adults in Africa are facing a future of neglect and abuse without a social safety net.
Africa has long been considered a society that revered its older citizens and the tradition of reverence has been an integral part of its value system. In most traditional African societies older persons were highly respected and honoured. However, the ideals of a society and the realities of daily life may be quite different. As a result of a changing social and economic environment, older adults are not always given the respect and reverence that tradition dictates in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, as evidenced by elder abuse, neglect and inadequate housing conditions.
One of the most important attributes of the traditional extended family is its potential for caring for the older population. Despite their acknowledged social and economic contributions, as well as their role in traditional and cultural affairs, many older adults in Africa experience abuse and are largely excluded in socio-economic and political affairs. The processes of modernisation and urbanisation are beginning to erode the traditional social welfare system of Africa, the extended family. The abuse and violence against older persons and their vulnerability to financial exploitation is a key challenge faced by many African countries.
The overwhelming majority of elderly persons in Africa, especially older women, have no formal education that would have secured them employment in the competitive job market, and would guarantee them social protection in old age. Consequently, subsequent education and employment of this sector of the population can play a pivotal role in furnishing social security and ameliorating elder abuse in the coming years.
In fact, because of the lack of a universal social security system in Africa, the welfare and support of older persons Africa has long been considered a society that revered its older citizens and the tradition of reverence has been an integral part of its value system.
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In Ghana, issues about the population classified as old gained prominence in the late 1980s when the proportion of the elderly population to the total population began to witness some increases, having grown steadily since 1960. Thus, even though Ghana’s population remains largely youthful, consisting of a large proportion of children under 15 years of age (reported at 44.5% in 1960; 46.9% in 1970; 45% in 1984; 41.3% in 2000 and 38.3% in 2010), the size of the elderly population has been growing.
The 2010 Population and Housing Census showed that although the proportion of older persons (60+ years) decreased from 7.2 percent in 2000 to 6.7 percent in 2010, in terms of absolute numbers there was an increase from 215,258 in 1960 to 1,643,978 in 2010: 918,378 (55.9%) were female and 725,003 (44.1%) were male. For the population 65+, the trend shows that it has increased from 3.2% in 1960 to 3.6% in 1970, 4.0% in 1984, and 5.3% in 2000 and declined to 4.7% in 2010.
Life expectancy at birth is reported to have increased from an estimated 45.5 years in 1960 to 48.6 and 52.7 years respectively in 1970 and 1984 (representing an increase of 4.1 years over a period of 14 years between 1970 and 1984). A Ghana Health Service report in 2003 indicated that life expectancy at birth in Ghana was 58 years which, according to the Ministry of Employment and Social Welfare, increased to 60 years in 2009.
In 2010, the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) reports that life expectancy increased to 60.7 years for males and 61.8 for females. Most elderly persons in Ghana live in rural areas but today, a little more than half (50.9%) of Ghana’s population live in urban areas. The 2010 PHC indicated that 890,488 (54.1%) of older persons in Ghana, live in rural communities.
With regard to the age cohort of the elderly population, those aged between 60 and 74 years constitute the largest proportion. All these developments have implications for the health and economic status of the elderly population and by extension, the whole population.
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Old age is expected to be the golden period of one’s life characterised by tranquillity, enjoyment and satisfaction. The reality, however, is a disappointing shattered dream. Old age in many African countries is a nightmare and a tale of woes. Although, there are legislative instruments that guarantee the rights of all persons including the older population in some parts of Africa, elder abuse is rampant because older persons are poor and voiceless. They lack basic healthcare, shelter and dignity.
There was/is a belief that “old women, particularly the poor and ugly, are witches”. This highlights the negative attitudes and psychological trauma elderly persons have to contend with in a traditional African setting. The abuse and neglect of the elderly is common in residential homes, hospitals, within families, in communities and in pension paying queues and government offices. Due largely to lack of access to or control over resources, elderly persons are socially isolated. Social integration is a function of money availability for food, transport, lodging and entertainment.
Sometimes, family conflict and violence are triggered by disagreements over financial matters and control over resources such as land. The elderly family members are usually caught-up in such feuds especially over succession issues. In Ghana, more than 2,500 women, including the elderly, suffered various forms of abuse between January and September, 2004 alone of this number, 837 were sexually assaulted, 130 were abducted, and 1,358 were battered.
The older population had inadequate access to health services and used medication infrequently. Additionally, they found that the elderly persons’ health and functional abilities deteriorated with age, while they had declining resources with age and received little help from the social welfare department.
The main needs of the elderly that require public attention are health, nutritional status, living arrangements and conditions as well as better access to amenities. The provision of these needs, and adequately, are the challenges of the demographic shift. Re-integrating the elderly back into the wider economic and social lives of Ghana, thereby preventing economic and social exclusion will however yield dividend to themselves, their families and their society.
Sub-Saharan African countries have not made enough economic progress before population ageing sets in. Moreover, they have to invest in their young populations- especially in the areas of health, education and other components of the social sector. But preparing for a secure ageing begins from childhood and early adulthood. Furthermore, knowing the situation of the elderly can contribute to the adoption of programmes and other forms of intervention that can ensure that the aged in Ghanaian society enjoy a life of security and dignity.

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The inspiration came from the fact that the elderly of our society are not always treated with the care, dignity and the utmost respect they deserve and require during their final years when they can no longer take care of themselves.
Despite the above problems and related trends there is therefore, the need for an institution that will serve:
• to assure our elders are treated with care, dignity and the utmost respect during their final years when they can no longer take care of themselves.
• to support those in need of long-term care “to maintain dignity and an independent daily life routine according to each person’s own level of abilities”.
• to support the elderly and enable them continue to participate and contribute to the economy of Ghana and ultimately to the development of the country while continuing to live in dignity until their call to eternity.
• to assist functionally impaired elderly persons to live dignified and reasonably independent lives.

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8.1 DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT
We will be widely known and highly regarded for our comprehensive and individualised treatment. Quality care will characterise each service provided by our deeply committed staff. Whether helping new residents to comfortably adjust to nursing home life, administering medical treatments or performing clinical assessments, we shall always be mindful of residents’ welfare.
Clinical Services: In our commitment to excellence, we shall employ a full-time medical director, other full-time and part-time physicians and full-time geriatric physician assistants to address the medical needs of each resident. Our physicians shall be top-flight professionals and include a full complement of specialists from fields including oncology, cardiology, neurology, ophthalmology, gastroenterology, pulmonology, gynaecology and rheumatology, as well as orthopaedics and physical therapy and rehabilitation. We will be affiliated with Cosmopolitan Miracle Hospitals to afford our residents with superior short- and long-term physical, occupational, speech and hearing therapy.
Short-term and Long-term Rehabilitation: Recovering from a stroke or fracture, or major illness, an individual will need a specialised type of short-term care focused on the restoration of function, often combining physical, occupational and speech therapies. Long-term rehabilitation is for residents who may have a functional impairment, chronic disease or dementia. A combination of therapies is prescribed to maintain their current level of function, raise their level of comfort, and prevent further deterioration of their condition.
Physical and Occupational Therapy: Physical therapy is a “hands-on” process. Much of the success we will achieve shall come because our specialists will work one-on-one to bring out each resident’s best capability. Our full-time physical therapy staff helps residents regain and maintain maximum functioning.
Their goals are to:
• Increase, restore or maintain range of motion, physical strength, flexibility, coordination, balance and endurance.
• Promote independence with walking skills.
• Increase overall fitness through exercise programmes.
• Improve sensation, reduce pain and discomfort.
Resident Social Life and Personal Care: Activities will provide a myriad of opportunities for residents to learn, grow, express themselves and have fun. Residents will participate in programmes that stimulate intellect, help rebuild strength and raise the spirit.
Programmes will include arts & crafts (including a resident crafts show, popular with residents and staff alike), a cooking club, weekly concerts, a current events group and trips to local destinations like museums, local restaurants, football games, cinema and shopping. Residents will also participate in various clubs where experts teach novices the basics of needlework and painting.
On any given day, one will be able to find Cosmopolitan Home for the Elderly residents reading the Ghana News Papers or enjoying books in our library. A unisex salon will provide hair styling and other cosmetic needs at modest cost. Religious services shall be held each week on the premises.
Social Work and Advocacy: Social workers at Cosmopolitan Home for the Elderly will help residents adjust to living in a group setting. Full-time social workers and an admissions director will maintain an ongoing relationship with residents and their families, offering counselling, guidance, support and help with problems and concerns. Social workers shall be part of an interdisciplinary team that ensures residents’ rights and needs are addressed on all levels.

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Accra, the capital of Ghana, is furthermore the anchor of a larger metropolitan area, the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), which is home to about 4 million people, making it the largest metropolitan conglomeration in Ghana by population, and the eleventh-largest metropolitan area in Africa.
The headquarters of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation will be located in Bundase in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. This is going to be the site for the new international airport which will become the center of West Africa to the world in the travel and pleasure industry. Apart from this huge international airport, there will be an Airport City with skyscrapers of the Dubai style, the seat of the government and all the ministries, an Olympic Stadium among other infrastructures.
We are acquiring 25, 000 acres of land extending from the Volta River to an area behind the new International Airport in Bundase, to build The Kingdom City which will englobe all the structures of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation. As coalition builders, in the effort of making our projects become auto-sustainable in the future, we will work co-operatively with all individuals and groups, for profit and not for profit corporations and organisations, with government agencies and international bodies committed to the fight to extend help to the needy, subject only to the policies and priorities set by our governing bodies.
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1. People who are chronically ill or disabled with a need for long-term care necessitating a comprehensive range of medical, personal, and social services coordinated to meet their physical, social, and emotional needs. A nursing home facility may be the best choice for people who require 24-hour medical care and supervision.
2. It will be a place of residence for people who require continual nursing care and have significant difficulty coping with the required activities of daily living.
3. Patients with Alzheimer and related disorders
4. Older persons branded as witches and abused and who are ill and do not have any other place to be.
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We are grounded on the values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence (I CARE) principle.
We believe in equality for all, rights and dignity for all, stewardship and respects for institutional partnership in development: We welcome and respect ongoing international initiatives and national policies to take care and give support to elderly, vulnerable children and disadvantaged people, students, fight poverty, ignorance and diseases such as Malaria, Immunisable diseases and AIDS. Our activities will be in union and collaboration with other stakeholders.
With your collaboration we both meet the following expectations:
• We will ensure that our elders are treated with care, dignity and the utmost respect during their final years when they can no longer take care of themselves.
• Providing a voice platform for action on the concerns of the elderly, social justice, poverty reduction through self-help initiatives to achieve sustainable development practices and influence policy and practice to end social exclusion and poverty.
• We will strive to eliminate barriers to full social integration and increase employment, economic security, and health care for the elderly.
• We will expand happiness to the elderly, freeing them of basic needs and controlling their diseases.
• We are grounded in the various United Nations human right declarations and commitments to promote the effective and full implementation of what United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) spearheaded in 2012.
It was the celebration of the day of the elderly, on October 1, in partnership with Help Age and with the aim of raising awareness about ageing, with a publication under theme: Ageing in the Twenty-First Century: A Celebration and A Challenge 2012. The report that was launched in Tokyo, Japan was followed by a global day of outreach and activism through media activity. Another component of these activities include a campaign dabbed “Age Demands Action”. The main message in the celebration activities is an emphasis on the fact that “population ageing is one of the most significant trends in the 21st Century”.

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Our own contribution has been in this project but we acknowledge that we cannot do this alone, so we are calling on donors of every nation to help build this project to affect millions of lives inside and outside Ghana.

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Cosmopolitan Mental Health Centre

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Cosmopolitan Mental Health Centre (Champions of Purpose), under the umbrella of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation is established in Ghana as a charitable Trust Deed, duly registered on 21st February, 2014 at the Registrar-General’s Department in Accra with the registration number CG089012014. On the 16th January, 2015, the foundation’s name was changed from Mawuena Foundation to Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation.
This proposal seeks to bring out the people with mental and emotional disabilities, their God-given potentials which must be recovered by compensating them to their former sound state of mind and engaging them to gain a different worldview of their self-esteem and how to maintain their sound mind, empowering them to become indispensable assets to themselves, their families, the nation of Ghana and the rest of the world, elevating  them to the height of the finest citizens and leaders the world can produce, where they  are no more considered a laughing stock, social menaces and liabilities, facing stigma and discrimination and often lacking adequate shelter, food, and health care.
We strive to eliminate barriers to full social integration and increase employment, economic security, and health care for persons with mental disabilities. The Cosmopolitan Mental Health Centre will create innovative programs and tools; and conduct research, public education, training, and advocacy campaigns; and provide technical assistance.
The need to help those with mental and emotional disabilities is a social responsibility.
We will offer the pure conventional psychiatric and psychological treatment and also offer psychiatric and psychological treatment combined with a faith-based approach as psychiatry and religion/spirituality both aim to enhance human flourishing, understanding this to involve the development of adaptive capacities (for example to be reflective, and regulate emotion), a solid identity, realistic hopes, meaningful activities, authentic relationships, a mature moral life and a balance between autonomy and respect for authority. However, they differ in emphasis and role, with religion/spirituality placing greater emphasis on growth and transformation toward full functioning than on critical thinking about diagnosis and treatment of disorders, as well as greater emphasis on relationship to the Transcendent and one’s community than on individual mastery as means toward these ends.
Faith is rooted in the traditions, beliefs and values of most cultures. It shapes world views and provides an important way for people in the community to come together and receive information. When experiencing mental illness, people often return to their faith-based roots for support to understand their illness. Faith-based initiatives offer great opportunities for organizations to partner with institutions of faith to share information with parishioners on recovery and resiliency for overall wellness.
Consistent with a religious worldview, mental disability is seen  as physical, emotional, and spiritual illnesses and the path to recovery requiring an integration of these aspects of our lives.
Religious communities also engage in a wide variety of practices aimed at integrating emotional and spiritual approaches such as healing presence by chaplains, pastoral counseling and psychotherapy, spiritual direction, inner healing prayer and group programs such as Celebrate Recovery or Living Waters.
The Board of Trustees of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation, led by Dr. Emmanuel Yao Voado, MD., the Founder, will select the Management Committee that will see to the day to day administration of the Cosmopolitan Mental Health Centre. He is a Ghanaian neurosurgeon trained in Cuba. He was the medical doctor who first opened a neurosurgical service in the country of Belize. He practiced there for 5 years and worked in the United States for 6 years before relocating to Africa in September, 2013. He is working diligently on the cure of Spinal Cord Injuries.
The Cosmopolitan Mental Health Centre will be headquartered in Tsopoli in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana.
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Cosmopolitan Mental Health Centre (Champions of Purpose), under the umbrella of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation was established in Ghana as a charitable Trust Deed, duly registered on 21st February, 2014 at the Registrar-General’s Department in Accra with the registration number CG089012014. On the 16th January, 2015, the foundation’s name was changed from Mawuena Foundation to Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation.
Our mission is to deliver the captive of destiny who will then rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the former devastations (poverty) of many generations. Our purpose is to bring out the people with mental and emotional disabilities, their God-given potentials which must be recovered by compensating them to their former sound state of mind and engaging them to gain a different worldview of their self-esteem and how to maintain their sound mind, empowering them to become indispensable assets to themselves, their families, the nation of Ghana and the rest of the world, elevating  them to the height of the finest citizens and leaders the world can produce, where they  are no more considered a laughing stock, social menaces and liabilities, facing stigma and discrimination and often lacking adequate shelter, food, and health care.
We strive to eliminate barriers to full social integration and increase employment, economic security, and health care for persons with mental disabilities. The Cosmopolitan Mental Health Centre will create innovative programmes and tools; and conduct research, public education, training, and advocacy campaigns; and provide technical assistance.
The Board of Trustees of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation, led by Dr. Emmanuel Yao Voado, MD., the Founder, will select the Management Committee that will see to the day to day administration of the Cosmopolitan Mental Health Centre. He is a Ghanaian neurosurgeon trained in Cuba. He was the medical doctor who first opened a neurosurgical service in the country of Belize. He practiced there for 5 years and worked in the United States of America for 6 years before relocating to Africa in September, 2013. He is working diligently on the cure of Spinal Cord Injuries. The headquarters of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation will be located in Bundase in the Greater Accra Region.
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Ghana is located in Western Africa and borders Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, and Togo. The country occupies a total area of 238,533 square kilometres and has a population of approximately 29,786,408 as of January 5, 2019. The population of West Africa is estimated at 387,246,061 people as of January 8, 2019.

Formed from the merger of the British colony of the Gold Coast and the Togoland Trust Territory, Ghana in 1957 became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence. Ghana endured a series of coups before Lt. Jerry RAWLINGS took power in 1981 and banned political parties. After approving a new constitution and restoring multiparty politics in 1992, RAWLINGS won presidential elections in 1992 and 1996 but was constitutionally prevented from running for a third term in 2000. John KUFUOR of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) succeeded him and was re-elected in 2004. John Atta MILLS of the National Democratic Congress won the 2008 presidential election and took over as head of state, but he died in July 2012 and was constitutionally succeeded by his vice president, John Dramani MAHAMA, who subsequently won the December 2012 presidential election. In 2016, however, Nana Addo Dankwa AKUFO-ADDO of the NPP defeated MAHAMA, marking the third time that the Ghana’s presidency has changed parties since the return to democracy.

Economy:

Ghana has a market-based economy with relatively few policy barriers to trade and investment in comparison with other countries in the region, and Ghana is endowed with natural resources. Ghana’s economy was strengthened by a quarter century of relatively sound management, a competitive business environment, and sustained reductions in poverty levels.

Agriculture accounts for about 20% of GDP and employs more than half of the workforce, mainly small landholders. Gold, oil, and cocoa exports, and individual remittances, are major sources of foreign exchange. Expansion of Ghana’s nascent oil industry has boosted economic growth, but the fall in oil prices since 2015 reduced by half Ghana’s oil revenue. Production at Jubilee, Ghana’s first commercial offshore oilfield, began in mid-December 2010. Production from two more fields, TEN and Sankofa, started in 2016 and 2017 respectively. The country’s first gas processing plant at Atuabo is also producing natural gas from the Jubilee field, providing power to several of Ghana’s thermal power plants. As of 2018, key economic concerns facing the government include the lack of affordable electricity, lack of a solid domestic revenue base, and the high debt burden. The AKUFO-ADDO administration has made some progress by committing to fiscal consolidation, but much work is still to be done. Ghana signed a $920 million extended credit facility with the IMF in April 2015 to help it address its growing economic crisis. The IMF fiscal targets require Ghana to reduce the deficit by cutting subsidies, decreasing the bloated public sector wage bill, strengthening revenue administration, boosting tax revenues, and improving the health of Ghana’s banking sector. Priorities for the new administration include rescheduling some of Ghana’s $31 billion debt, stimulating economic growth, reducing inflation, and stabilizing the currency. Prospects for new oil and gas production and follow through on tighter fiscal management are likely to help Ghana’s economy in 2019.

In a recently published analysis based on World Values Survey data, the Austrian political scientist Arno Tausch maintained that several African countries, most notably Ghana, perform quite well on scales of mass support for democracy and the market economy. The spread in the performance of African countries with complete data, Tausch concluded, “is really amazing”. They stress that one should be especially hopeful about the development of future democracy and the market economy in Ghana and that there is recent optimism, corresponding to economic and human rights data, emerging from Africa, is reflected in the development of a civil society.

Ghana saw an improved performance in 2017 after a difficult 2016. The West African country saw an 8.3 percent growth in 2018. According to the 3rd edition of the Ghana Economic Update, the service sector bounced back, and the fiscal consolidation is paying off. The inflation rate is also down to just less than 10 percent. In January, Ghana’s benchmark stock index achieved the world’s highest rate of growth at 19 percent.

GDP (purchasing power parity): $134 billion (2017 est.)
GDP (official exchange rate): $47.02 billion (2017 est.) (2017 est.)
GDP – real growth rate: 8. 3% (2018)
GDP – per capita (PPP): $4,700 (2017 est.)

GDP – composition, by end use:

household consumption: 80.1% (2017 est.)

government consumption: 8.6% (2017 est.)

investment in fixed capital: 13.7% (2017 est.)

investment in inventories: 1.1% (2017 est.)

exports of goods and services: 43% (2017 est.)

imports of goods and services: -46.5% (2017 est.)

GDP – composition, by sector of origin: 
agriculture: 18.3% (2017 est.)
industry: 24.5% (2017 est.)
services: 57.2% (2017 est.)

Agriculture – products: cocoa, rice, cassava (manioc, tapioca), peanuts, corn, shea nuts, bananas; timber
Industries: mining, lumbering, light manufacturing, aluminum smelting, food processing, cement, small commercial ship building, petroleum
Industrial production growth rate: 16.7% (2017 est.)

Labor force: 12.49 million (2017 est.)

Labor force – by occupation: 
agriculture: 44.7% 
industry: 14.4% 
services: 40.9% (2013 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 9.6 % ( July,2018.)

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Africa is the second-largest continent about 30.2 million km2 (11.7 million sq. mi), after Asia, in size and population. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the west and Europe to the north. The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagos.
The population of Africa is estimated at 1.30 billion people as of 2018 accounting for about 16.64% of the world’s human population. Africa’s population is the youngest among all the continents; 50% of Africans are 19 years old or younger. The median age is 19.4 years. 41% of the population is urban. Algeria is Africa’s largest country by area and Nigeria is the largest by population.
Africa, particularly central Eastern Africa, is widely accepted as the place of origin of humans and the Hominidae clade (great apes), as evidenced by the discovery of the earliest hominids and their ancestors, as well as later ones that have been dated to around seven million years ago.

History:
At about 3300 BC, the historical record opens in Northern Africa with the rise of literacy in the Pharaonic civilization of Ancient Egypt. One of the world’s earliest and longest-lasting civilizations, the Egyptian state continued, with varying levels of influence over other areas, until 343 BC.

Climate:
Africa straddles the equator and encompasses numerous climate areas; it is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to southern temperate zones.
The climate of Africa ranges from tropical to subarctic on its highest peaks. Its northern half is primarily desert, or arid, while its central and southern areas contain both savanna plains and very dense jungle (rainforest) regions. In between, there is a convergence, where vegetation patterns such as Sahel and steppe dominate. Africa is the hottest continent on earth and 60% of the entire land surface consists of dry lands and deserts.

Politics:
Today, Africa contains 54 sovereign countries, nine territories and two de facto independent states with limited or no recognition. Connected with the Indian Ocean, the islands of Africa are the Union of the Comoros, Republic of Madagascar, Republic of Seychelles, and Republic of Mauritius. In the Atlantic Ocean we have Republic of Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe. Others are Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, and Eritrea.
The vast majority of African states are republics that operate under some form of the presidential system of rule. The improved stability and economic reforms have led to a great increase in foreign investment into many African nations, mainly from China, which has spurred quick economic growth in many countries, seemingly ending decades of stagnation and decline. 
Some seven African countries are in the top 10 fastest growing economies in the world. If you look at countries like Mozambique, Angola, Ethiopia, Zambia, and Togo – all of those markets have shown exceptional growth and real stability and with that you almost get a new investment climate for these countries. This allows you to have a new emerging middle class and with that comes a very vibrant entrepreneurship culture, businessmen or women who want access to technology and to innovate.

Natural Resources:
The continent is believed to hold 90% of the world’s cobalt, 90% of its platinum, 50% of its gold, 98% of its chromium, 70% of its tantalite, 64% of its manganese and one-third of its uranium. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has 70% of the world’s coltan, a mineral used in the production of tantalum capacitors for electronic devices such as cell phones. The DRC also has more than 30% of the world’s diamond reserves. Guinea is the world’s largest exporter of bauxite.

Economy:
From 1995 to 2005, Africa’s rate of economic growth increased, averaging 5% in 2005. Some countries experienced still higher growth rates, notably Angola, Sudan and Equatorial Guinea, all of which had recently begun extracting their petroleum reserves or had expanded their oil extraction capacity.
Several African economies are among the world’s fastest growing as of 2011. As of 2013, these are some of the Africa countries growing by more than 5.0% in real Gross Domestic Product (GDP). These are South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Rwanda, Mozambique, Eritrea, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Gabon, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Mauritania, Niger, Congo, Zambia, Angola, Uganda, Togo, Nigeria, Morocco and Kenya.
Africa really has the ideal conditions for steady economic growth. A skyrocketing population made up of predominantly younger people is the perfect recipe for a booming economy.
In 2018 we continue to see the same trend for population growth. Compared to 2017, African’s overall population has increased by more than 30 million – 1,256,268,025 in 2017 versus 1,287,920,518 in 2018.
The World Bank’s projections for the sub-Saharan Africa area. According to their 2018 projections for the continent: regional GDP growth of 3.2% (compared to 2.4% last year) is expected this year and an even greater increase of 3.5% is forecasted for 2019.
That’s why keeping an eye out for the top African countries with the fastest economic growth in 2018 is a total must for every potential investor. The abundance of natural resources and a young workforce is what has driven the economic surge on the continent in recent years.
A significant number of 2018’s top performers are non-commodity intensive economies. The list is led by Ghana, followed by Ethiopia and Côte d’Ivoire, with Senegal, Tanzania and Djibouti occupying the fourth, fifth and sixth spots respectively. Africa has six of the world’s ten fastest growing economies this year, according to the World Bank. 
The latest forecast places East African country, Ethiopia at 8.2 percent with the West African nation, Ghana leading the continent at 8.3 percent. Topping the list from the first to the tenth position are: Ghana, Ethiopia, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Benin, Rwanda and Niger.
As the growth in Africa has been driven mainly by services and not manufacturing or agriculture, it has been growth without jobs and without reduction in poverty levels.

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Born in 1971 to a Christian family of scarce resources in Tefle, Volta Region, Ghana, he always dreamed of breaking the back bone of poverty through education. At the age of 12, he received a prophecy that he would be going abroad to further his education. In 1985, at age 14, the prophecy was accomplished but not without difficulties. After taking the exams to send students to Cuba, he placed first in his district but was unlawfully replaced by the son of the most powerful politician of the district. A concerned citizen sent him to the office of President Jerry John Rawlings, when he was allowed to participate in the national test in which he became first. This event was indeed a shock to many.
He was in Cuba for 17 years, right from the junior high school to the medical school and subsequently to the postgraduate specialist course of Neurosurgery. While in Cuba as a student, he continued the brilliant academic work; he won many awards including best student in Chemistry at the Cuban National Level Quizzes for 3 consecutive years where students from 35 countries then studied. He wrote an Organic Chemistry book which was meant for the preparation of the high performance students who aspired to participate in the World Olympiad of Chemistry. He was summa cum laude (first) in all the levels of education including the medical school and the Specialty of Neurosurgery. At the end of the neurosurgical training, he wrote another book in the field of Spinal Surgery called Lumbosacral Discopathies.
When he completed the Neurosurgical course in 2001, the people of Belize found him and took him to that country as they needed Neurosurgical Services which they had never had the privilege of enjoying locally. He performed simple and complex surgeries on many people including the elite of Belize with no surgical mortality in his 5 consecutive years of practice. In the USA, under Dr. Robert Grossman, a well-known neurosurgeon, he worked as a Clinical Research Specialist where he was invited by the Congress of Neurological Surgeons of America to present six papers in their international conferences.
He is Belizean and American citizen by naturalization. After 28 years, he has decided to come back to Africa to help his people as he has come to the convincing realization that he is more needed here than in the United States of America.
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Dr. Emmanuel Voado, MD., is a Ghanaian neurosurgeon trained in Cuba. He was the medical doctor who first opened a neurosurgical service in the country of Belize. He practiced there for 5 years before going to the United States where he resided with his family for 6 years before relocating to Africa in September, 2013.
In Cuba, he was directly involved in the educational system for 17 years and impacted by their health care delivery for 11 years which can all be emulated by third world countries like Ghana who have more natural resources and foreign exchange earners than Cuba. He saw the Cuban government training thousands of students of foreign nations in different courses at the polytechnic and university levels, who then went to their home countries to contribute to their development.
He lived in Belize where he contributed to the healthcare delivery in that nation. Once in the USA, he was personally impacted by all the good things of the American system. One area is the safety network to cater for the destitute.
He saw the compassionate character of the Americans in the hospitals and churches which were the two environments he worked and worshiped and he saw how the two organisations will selflessly use their vacation days to go about doing good to the impoverished nations giving out their substance and technical knowhow.
He was deeply touched by this spirit of selflessness and all this helped to shape his world view in the subconscious level till he came to the conscious realization that a meaningful life is not being rich, being popular, being highly educated or being prefect…It is about being real, being humble, being able to share ourselves and touch the lives of others. It is only then that we could have a full, happy and contented life. That is the motive why, by divine grace, he had been able to abandon the lucrative and most rewarding jobs in the Diaspora and now back home to give back to his people.

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A mental disorder or mental illness is a psychological or behavioural pattern generally associated with subjective distress or disability that occurs in an individual, and perceived by the majority of society as being outside of normal development or cultural expectations. The recognition and understanding of mental health conditions has changed over time and across cultures, and there are still variations in the definition, assessment, and classification of mental disorders, although standard guideline criteria are widely accepted.
According to the World Health Organisation, mental health disorders accounted for 12% of the global disease burden in 2000. This figure is estimated to rise to 15% in 2020, when unipolar depression is predicted to rise from being the fourth to the second most disabling health condition in the world.
The United Nations (UN) Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and the Improvement of Mental Health Care was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1991. The principles stress the inherent humanity of people with mental illness. In addition, the 1996 World Psychiatric Association Declaration of Madrid sought to reverse the process of segregation and discrimination of people with mental illness.
The announcement by the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs on August 21, 2012, of Ghana’s ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities affirmed Ghana’s commitment to respect the human rights of all its citizens, including those with disabilities.
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People with mental illness in Ghana have for a long time been excluded and abused. Evidence suggests that they do not enjoy the same rights, in terms of self-determination and protection from exploitation and discrimination, as do people who do not suffer from mental illness.
In Ghana the lack of access to appropriate treatment facilities coupled with a high rate of social stigmatisation makes families of people with mental illness and epilepsy hide their patients away from the public. As a result, the families have to become the primary carers offering basic care and protection.
It is such ‘internal displacement’ that affects the capacity and confidence of people suffering from mental illness and epilepsy and limits how they can meaningfully contribute to their families and communities.
Mental health services in Ghana are available at most levels of care. However, the majority of care is provided through specialised psychiatric hospitals (close to the capital and servicing only small proportion of the population), with relatively less government provision and funding for general hospital and primary health care based services. The few community based services being provided are private.
There are thousands of people with mental disabilities whom are forced to live in psychiatric institutions and spiritual healing centres, often against their will and with little possibility of challenging their confinement. In psychiatric hospitals, people with mental disabilities face overcrowding and unsanitary conditions. In some of the spiritual healing centres, popularly known as prayer camps, they are often chained to trees, frequently in the baking sun, and forced to fast for weeks as part of a “healing process,” while being denied access to medications.
There are also people with mental disabilities who live in the community, who face stigma and discrimination and often lack adequate shelter, food, and healthcare.
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Policy and Plans: Ghana became the 119th country in the world to ratify the Disability Rights Convention, a landmark international treaty that mandates the protection and promotion of human rights for the more than 1 billion people with disabilities worldwide. More than 5 million people with disabilities live in Ghana, one-fifth of the total population, including 2.8 million people with mental disabilities.
Under the Disability Rights Convention, people with mental disabilities have the right to make decisions about their own lives, including where and how they live. A new Mental Health Act, Act 846, was passed in 2012 and was awaiting Government to establish the Mental Health Board which was eventually accomplished. Mental health had a ring-fenced budget of 1.4% of total governmental health expenditure. Everyone had free access to essential psychotropic medicines from hospitals/pharmacies when they were available.
Organisation of the mental health service: There was no national or regional mental health body to provide advice to the government on mental health policies and legislation. There was also a local person for mental health located in the Institutional Care Division of the Ghana Health Service, to coordinate mental health care in the Ghana Health Service institutions. The Chief Psychiatrist coordinates all planning and organisation of mental health activities at the national level. At the regional and district levels the Regional and District Coordinators of Community Psychiatric Nursing served as the coordinators. There were 123 outpatient units and one day treatment unit. In terms of number of services (not size of service), Upper West Region had the most outpatient services per 100,000 of its population and Ashanti Region had the fewest. The total number of outpatients treated in 2011 was 57,404.

 

The following table is a summary:

Distribution of Health Institutions

No. of beds

% of all beds

Beds/100,000 population

3 mental hospitals

1,322

85.1%

5.42

7 inpatient units (in general hospitals and clinics)

120

7.7%

0.49

4 community residential units

112

7.2%

0.45

TOTAL

1,554

100%

6.36

 

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Women comprised 32-54% of those treated and children around 1-10%. Mental hospitals had wards segregated by sex. There were 15 beds reserved solely for children. This revelation raises grave concerns, especially, within the context of statistics by the Ghana Health Service, which suggest that 93% of all suicide cases emanate from mental illness.
Suicide itself, as reported in the 717 edition of the Public Agenda of Monday, 18th January, 2010, is on the ascendancy in Ghana, with 21,500 reported cases for 2009 alone.
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The hard truth is that the Ghana’s mental healthcare is totally broken down. This conclusion is based not on any scientific research but rather physical observation of the number of unrestricted frail and helpless mental health patients who roam in the major cities/towns or streets of Ghana. We need to conduct effective disability advocacy, community awareness and public education campaigns; develop programmes and national policies; and create networks and national coalitions to promote the full inclusion of people with disabilities into all aspects of society. By doing this, the mentally disabled will cease to be liabilities and become indispensable assets to our society.
Therefore, there is the need for a service that will serve to:
• bring out the people with mental and emotional disabilities, their God-given potentials which must be recovered by compensating them to their former sound state of mind and engaging them to gain a different worldview of their self-esteem and how to maintain their sound mind, empowering them to become indispensable assets to themselves, their families, the nation of Ghana and the rest of the world, elevating them to the height of the finest citizens and leaders the world can produce, where they are no more considered a laughing stock, social menaces and liabilities, facing stigma and discrimination and often lacking adequate shelter, food, and healthcare.
• improved mental health care, sustainable livelihoods and renewed confidence of people with mental illness and epilepsy through capacity building and evidence-based action research and policy influencing.
• advocate for the integration of people with mental illness or epilepsy and that the development of all services should be centered on the needs and interests of people with mental illness or epilepsy and their cares.
• educating and raising awareness regarding the spiritual and cultural dynamics of mental health issues and substance abuse disorders.
• build a better world for people with mental illness and epilepsy.

 

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8.1 DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT:
The need to help those with mental and emotional disabilities is a social responsibility. We want to be an organisation at the forefront of fighting the cause of the mentally disabled in Ghana and from Ghana to the international stage. We strive for a world with cultures where: disability is a natural part of the human condition, people with disabilities have equal rights to their own self- determination, people with disabilities drive public policy issues and priorities, disability is a global issue, people with disabilities have the right to make informed choices, information and education, promote employment for all, people with disabilities have the right to earn a living and live independently, accessible, affordable health care and community supports are essential rights that support employment and well-being, the disability experience is in the arts, media and wider culture, and information technologies are accessible to all people with disabilities.
We will offer the pure conventional psychiatric and psychological treatment combined with a faith-based approach as psychiatry and religion/spirituality both aim to enhance human flourishing. Understanding this to involve the development of adaptive-capacities (for example to be reflective, and regulate emotion), a solid identity, realistic hopes, meaningful activities, authentic relationships, a mature moral life and a balance between autonomy and respect for authority.
Faith is rooted in the traditions, beliefs and values of most cultures. It shapes world views and provides an important way for people in the community to come together and receive information. When experiencing mental illness, people often return to their faith-based roots for support to understand their illness. Faith-based initiatives offer great opportunities for organisations to partner with institutions of faith to share information with parishioners on recovery and resiliency for overall wellness.
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Mental Health Partial Hospitalisation Programme: Mental health counselling and treatment in a partial hospitalisation programme (PHP) focuses on improving the overall wellness and treatment of an individual. Our mental health centre’s partial hospitalisation programme will provide clients with access to a safe, structured treatment environment without total disruption of their daily routines.
Our partial hospitalisation programme includes mental health counselling treatment opportunities for group, individual, and family therapy, as well as cognitive behavioural therapy, life skills enhancement, comprehensive case management, treatment evaluations and reviews. Our specialised family therapy is the cornerstone of the success of mental health counselling programmes at our mental health centre, allowing families and loved ones access to opportunities for learning about their loved one’s disorder, healthy family coping mechanism, and ways to improve the quality of life for the entire family.
Like other mental health treatment opportunities, our mental health centre’s partial hospitalisation programme is not appropriate for all individuals or all disorders. Our admissions counsellors will determine the best mental health counselling treatment plan each individual.
Outpatient Mental Health Therapy: Our mental health centre will have a specialised Intensive Outpatient Programme (IOP) designed to provide short term stabilisation and resolution of immediate mental health problem areas. It is meant for people who are able to continue their daily lives, but need a degree of supportive treatment.
Our IOP is ideal for treating certain mental health conditions and may be suitable for people experiencing mild to moderate symptoms or who need an intermediate step before they leave treatment.
We will ask our clients to commit to at least six weeks of outpatient mental health therapy if it is determined that the intensive outpatient programme is right for them. Six weeks allows sufficient time to identify, diagnose, address and correct the underlying concerns that may be causing the mental health disorder in the first place. Our outpatient mental health programme may be appropriate for you if:
• you have completed full-time mental health therapy and still benefit from structure and supportive therapy.
• you have a non-supportive living situation and need more time to strengthen your behavioural changes and coping skills.
• you will benefit from the structure and community that IOP provide.
• you are not a risk to yourself or others.
Our Intensive Outpatient Programme is not appropriate for everyone. Many clients are not eligible for this form of mental health therapy immediately. An admissions counsellor or therapist will be able to advise you of when you are ready to move in or out of intermediate care based on your progress during treatment. Intensive Outpatient Programmes require a high level of dedication, self-policing and awareness by the client in order to prevent a slide back into the disorder. A supportive environment can make a world of difference to clients who are struggling to regain their life and live a healthier life.

 

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Thought disorders are conditions that affect the way a person thinks, creating a disturbance in the way a person puts together a logical sequence of ideas. At our mental health centre, we will treat thought disorders such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and trauma disorders.
Normal thinking involves three aspects: content, or what is being thought about; form, the manner in which thoughts are being linked together; and finally stream or flow, the amount and speed of the thought pattern. People who suffer from thought disorders often have difficulty with at least one of these aspects. They may be unable to express thoughts in a logical fashion, or they may speak quickly or incoherently. Many individuals also suffer from a disturbance in the way they produce content- this can be seen in individuals having delusions or hallucinations, such as people suffering from PTSD.
Thought Disorder Treatment Programme: Thought disorders can be treated and managed with great effectiveness to improve individual’s quality of life. Our mental health centre will offer clients the support and opportunities they need to manage their disorders and live healthy, productive lives through our thought disorder treatment programme.
We recognise that individuals suffering from mood disorders and thought disorders have specialised needs; therefore we will offer separate treatment programmes to address those unique concerns. No single treatment approach is appropriate for individuals suffering from thought disorders. We shall create personalised treatment plans that address an individual’s situation, needs, and symptoms to give them the best opportunity for independence and success.
Individuals who suffer from a thought disorder have difficulty with mental and emotional functions. They may experience problems with their behaviour and emotions, and are very likely to also suffer from depression or anxiety disorders.
Our thought disorder treatment will try to address co-occurring disorders, underlying emotional and mental health issues, providing clients with stronger foundations for improving their quality of life and reducing the risk for relapse.
Our mental health centre will offer a multi-disciplinary approach to thought disorder treatment. Our thought disorder treatment track will include a holistic approach to overall quality of life and disorder management. This includes medication therapy and psychosocial therapies, like psychotherapy (talk therapy), family therapy, and social skills training. We base our individual treatment programmes on providing clients with the best possible opportunity for optimal support and success after treatment.
Treatment for thought disorders is effective, and many people live healthier lives after treatment. Effective recovery for thought disorders requires personalised attention and care. At our mental health centre, we will provide each of our clients with a foundation of treatment to give them the best chance for a successful healthy living.
Dual Diagnosis Treatment: Dual diagnosis treatment is geared towards people who are suffering from a mental health disorder as well as substance abuse issues. The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reports that 29% of people diagnosed with mental illness are also suffering from drug or alcohol abuse. Studies have shown that people suffering from both types of behavioural health problems achieve the highest success rates when both disorders are treated simultaneously.
Dual diagnosis treatment includes therapy for addiction and substance abuse as well as the co-occurring psychological issue. At our mental health centre, healthcare professionals and therapists from both our substance abuse and mental health programmes will provide integrated dual diagnosis treatment; working together to prepare a unified and coordinated treatment plan. With no division between the substance abuse and mental health treatment plans, care can be coordinated and complimentary. Our specialised programme will allow for protocols and treatments that address the underlying cause and effect of the substance abuse and mental health disorder.
The most common dual diagnoses we see are substance abuse coupled with depression, anxiety, eating disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder and abuse.
Dual diagnosis treatment does not always fall into 30, 60 or 90 day substance abuse and mental health treatment plans. Given that an individual is suffering from more than one behavioural health condition, it is important that the individual learns the right skills to handle daily life, to prevent relapse and has enough time in treatment to feel comfortable using those skills in the real world. Dual diagnosis treatment may include a variety of outreach and life-assistance programmes including: job and housing assistance, relationship management assistance and assertive outreach. Integrated treatment can be very effective at helping an individual overcome both substance abuse and mental illness in the long-term. Our mental health centre will have an experienced and qualified team to help clients suffering from dual diagnosis learns to live a healthier life.
Self-help groups for mental health are voluntary associations of people who share a common desire to overcome mental illness or otherwise increase their level of cognitive or emotional well-being. Mutual support is a process by which people voluntarily come together to help each other address common problems. Peer support is social, emotional or instrumental support that is mutually offered or provided by persons with similar mental health conditions where there is some mutual agreement on what is helpful.
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The Foundation will be calling on governments to fill the gaps in data collection on numbers, ages, lifestyles, needs and roles of mentally disabled, a specific category in national action plans, as well as criminalise all actions by state or non-state actors that deprive mentally disabled of their rights. This is done through awareness programmes, radio/TV projects, training/capacity building, advocacy, research, publication, media, networking and consulting services.
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Accra, the capital of Ghana, is furthermore the anchor of a larger metropolitan area, the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), which is home to about 4 million people, making it the largest metropolitan conglomeration in Ghana by population, and the eleventh-largest metropolitan area in Africa.
The headquarters of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation will be located in Bundase in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. This is going to be the site for the new international airport which will become the center of West Africa to the world in the travel and pleasure industry. Apart from this huge international airport, there will be an Airport City with skyscrapers of the Dubai style, the seat of the government and all the ministries, an Olympic Stadium among other infrastructures.
We are acquiring 25, 000 acres of land extending from the Volta River to an area behind the new International Airport in Bundase, to build The Kingdom City which will englobe all the structures of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation. As coalition builders, in the effort of making our projects become auto-sustainable in the future, we will work co-operatively with all individuals and groups, for profit and not for profit corporations and organisations, with government agencies and international bodies committed to the fight to extend help to the needy, subject only to the policies and priorities set by our governing bodies.
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People with mental and emotional disabilities who are suffering from:
1) Depression
2) Bipolar disorder
3) Anxiety disorder
4) Obsessive-compulsive disorder
5) Post-traumatic stress disorder
6) Schizophrenia and psychotic disorder
7) Personality disorder
8) Addiction
9) Substance abuse
10) Above mentioned conditions compounded with addiction
11) Prescription drug abuse and addiction
12) Eating disorders: anorexia, bulimia, compulsive overeating
13) Epilepsy

 

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We are grounded on the values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence (I CARE) principle. We welcome and respect ongoing international initiatives and national policies to take care and give support to mentally disabled, vulnerable children and disadvantaged people, fight poverty, ignorance and diseases such as Malaria, Immunisable diseases and AIDS. Our activities will be in union and collaboration with other stakeholders.
With your collaboration, we both seek to achieve the following:
• that their God-given potentials will be recovered by compensating them to their former sound state of mind
• they would gain a different worldview of their self-esteem and how to maintain their sound mind
• they will be elevated to the height of the finest citizens and leaders the world can produce.
• they would fully be engaged in their own development, in an authentic way, having real ownership and power to change their lives and the lives of the people around them.
• with this project both will both compliment government’s efforts. Ghana’s current mental health service delivery has a 97 percent treatment gap- explaining that 97, out of a 100 mental patients, who require health care, do not get it. The end goal is to help these mentally disabled move from emotional frailty to becoming successful passionate citizens and to help them create a better future for themselves and their families.
• they would be empowered to become indispensable assets to themselves, their families, the nation of Ghana and the rest of the world, where they are no more social menaces and liabilities.

 

Both will be advocates of the United Nations (UN) Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and the Improvement of Mental Health Care which was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1991. The principles stress the inherent humanity of people with mental illness. In addition, the 1996 World Psychiatric Association Declaration of Madrid sought to reverse the process of segregation and discrimination of people with mental illness.
We are both grounded in the various United Nations human right declarations and commitments to promote the effective and full implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities worldwide, as well as compliance with the CRPD within the UN system, through the active and coordinated involvement of representative organisations of persons with disabilities at national, regional and international levels.
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Our own contribution has been in this project but we acknowledge that we cannot do this alone, so we are calling on donors of every nation to help build this project to affect millions of lives inside and outside Ghana.

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Cosmopolitan Physically Disabled (Champions of Destiny), under the umbrella of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation is established in Ghana as a charitable Trust Deed, duly registered on 21st February, 2014 at the Registrar-General’s Department in Accra with the registration number CG089012014. On the 16th January, 2015, the foundation’s name was changed from Mawuena Foundation to Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation.
We strive to bring out people with disability, their God-given potentials and talents which must be tapped through education, empowering them to become indispensable assets to themselves, their family, the nation of Ghana and the rest of the world, where they are no more social liabilities, grooming them to the height of the finest leaders the world can produce.
We are based on the reality that every human being is a unique individual and that we all have a right to good health and basic needs and should access means to a comfortable life in one way or another. We aim at providing a voice platform for action on the concerns of physically disabled, social justice, poverty reduction through self-help initiatives to achieve sustainable development. We will create innovative programs, conduct research, public education, training, and advocacy campaigns; and provide tools and technical assistance. We will be building a unique bonding platform for physically disabled, in protecting their human rights as well as nurturing their hidden intellectual, artistic and entrepreneurial skills.
We believe strongly in the potential of disabled people to lead meaningful lives. With proper attention, training and care, the vast majority of the disabled can overcome their disadvantaged position and contribute to society. The key in taking care of the disabled is their empowerment. Examples of programs of the Cosmopolitan Physically Disabled are: technical assistance, training, bursaries and scholarship, exchange of experiences, consultative trips, legislation, human rights, disabled children promotion, disabled women promotion, inclusive education, functional rehabilitation, institutional development, sports, arts  and culture and leisure. We will improve physical and psychological rehabilitation and other crucial services for disabled people and their families  through our NGO Cosmopolitan Miracle Hospitals with the assistance of Orthopedic Surgeons, Neurologists and Neurosurgeons, physical therapists, occupational therapists and speech therapists and psychologists.
The adult physically disabled can be held in a hostel project as resident students for a limited period in our empowerment center (usually between 1-4 years). During this time, the students are taught vocational skills at the resource center in various income generating activities that fit with their capabilities, improve their self-confidence and spirit and prepare them to venture independently after graduation. They can be taught visual arts and rural craft. They can learn  vocations, including and not limited to dressmaking, shoe making, radio mechanics, leather work and carpentry.  They can learn computer science, electronics  and all activities that do not entail constant movement from one place to another and those who excel from the very beginning will be encouraged to advance their education and give them scholarships to make it to the university.
The Board of Trustees of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation, led by Dr. Emmanuel Yao Voado, MD., the Founder, will select the Management Committee that will see to the day to day administration of the Cosmopolitan Physically Disabled. He is a Ghanaian neurosurgeon trained in Cuba. He was the medical doctor who first opened a neurosurgical service in the country of Belize. He practiced there for 5 years and worked in the United States for 6 years before relocating to Africa in September, 2013. He is working diligently on the cure of Spinal Cord Injuries.
The Cosmopolitan Physically Disabled will be headquartered in Tsopoli in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana.
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Cosmopolitan Physically Disabled (Champions of Destiny), under the umbrella of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation was established in Ghana as a charitable Trust Deed, duly registered on 21st February, 2014 at the Registrar-General’s Department in Accra with the registration number CG089012014. On the 16th January, 2015, the foundation’s name was changed from Mawuena Foundation to Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation.
Our mission is to deliver the captive of destiny who will then rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the former devastations (poverty) of many generations. Our purpose is to bring out of the people with disability, their God-given potentials and talents which must be tapped through education, empowering them to become indispensable assets to themselves, their family, the nation of Ghana and the rest of the world, where they are no more social liabilities, grooming them to the height of the finest leaders the world can produce. We are based on the reality that every human being is a unique individual and that we all have a right to good health and basic needs and should access means to a comfortable life in one way or another.
We aim at providing a voice platform for action on the concerns of physically disabled, social justice, poverty reduction through self-help initiatives to achieve sustainable development. We will create innovative programs, conduct research, public education, training, and advocacy campaigns; and provide tools and technical assistance. We will be building a unique bonding platform for physically disabled, in protecting their human rights as well as nurturing their hidden intellectual, artistic and entrepreneurial skills.
The Board of Trustees of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation, led by Dr. Emmanuel Yao Voado, MD., the Founder, will select the Management Committee that will see to the day to day administration of the Cosmopolitan Physically Disabled. He is a Ghanaian neurosurgeon trained in Cuba. He was the medical doctor who first opened a neurosurgical service in the country of Belize. He practiced there for 5 years and worked in the United States of America for 6 years before relocating to Africa in September, 2013. He is working diligently on the cure of Spinal Cord Injuries. The headquarters of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation will be located in Bundase in the Greater Accra Region.

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Ghana is located in Western Africa and borders Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, and Togo. The country occupies a total area of 238,533 square kilometres and has a population of approximately 29,786,408 as of January 5, 2019. The population of West Africa is estimated at 387,246,061 people as of January 8, 2019.

Formed from the merger of the British colony of the Gold Coast and the Togoland Trust Territory, Ghana in 1957 became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence. Ghana endured a series of coups before Lt. Jerry RAWLINGS took power in 1981 and banned political parties. After approving a new constitution and restoring multiparty politics in 1992, RAWLINGS won presidential elections in 1992 and 1996 but was constitutionally prevented from running for a third term in 2000. John KUFUOR of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) succeeded him and was re-elected in 2004. John Atta MILLS of the National Democratic Congress won the 2008 presidential election and took over as head of state, but he died in July 2012 and was constitutionally succeeded by his vice president, John Dramani MAHAMA, who subsequently won the December 2012 presidential election. In 2016, however, Nana Addo Dankwa AKUFO-ADDO of the NPP defeated MAHAMA, marking the third time that the Ghana’s presidency has changed parties since the return to democracy.

Economy:

Ghana has a market-based economy with relatively few policy barriers to trade and investment in comparison with other countries in the region, and Ghana is endowed with natural resources. Ghana’s economy was strengthened by a quarter century of relatively sound management, a competitive business environment, and sustained reductions in poverty levels.

Agriculture accounts for about 20% of GDP and employs more than half of the workforce, mainly small landholders. Gold, oil, and cocoa exports, and individual remittances, are major sources of foreign exchange. Expansion of Ghana’s nascent oil industry has boosted economic growth, but the fall in oil prices since 2015 reduced by half Ghana’s oil revenue. Production at Jubilee, Ghana’s first commercial offshore oilfield, began in mid-December 2010. Production from two more fields, TEN and Sankofa, started in 2016 and 2017 respectively. The country’s first gas processing plant at Atuabo is also producing natural gas from the Jubilee field, providing power to several of Ghana’s thermal power plants. As of 2018, key economic concerns facing the government include the lack of affordable electricity, lack of a solid domestic revenue base, and the high debt burden. The AKUFO-ADDO administration has made some progress by committing to fiscal consolidation, but much work is still to be done. Ghana signed a $920 million extended credit facility with the IMF in April 2015 to help it address its growing economic crisis. The IMF fiscal targets require Ghana to reduce the deficit by cutting subsidies, decreasing the bloated public sector wage bill, strengthening revenue administration, boosting tax revenues, and improving the health of Ghana’s banking sector. Priorities for the new administration include rescheduling some of Ghana’s $31 billion debt, stimulating economic growth, reducing inflation, and stabilizing the currency. Prospects for new oil and gas production and follow through on tighter fiscal management are likely to help Ghana’s economy in 2019.

In a recently published analysis based on World Values Survey data, the Austrian political scientist Arno Tausch maintained that several African countries, most notably Ghana, perform quite well on scales of mass support for democracy and the market economy. The spread in the performance of African countries with complete data, Tausch concluded, “is really amazing”. They stress that one should be especially hopeful about the development of future democracy and the market economy in Ghana and that there is recent optimism, corresponding to economic and human rights data, emerging from Africa, is reflected in the development of a civil society.

Ghana saw an improved performance in 2017 after a difficult 2016. The West African country saw an 8.3 percent growth in 2018. According to the 3rd edition of the Ghana Economic Update, the service sector bounced back, and the fiscal consolidation is paying off. The inflation rate is also down to just less than 10 percent. In January, Ghana’s benchmark stock index achieved the world’s highest rate of growth at 19 percent.

GDP (purchasing power parity): $134 billion (2017 est.)
GDP (official exchange rate): $47.02 billion (2017 est.) (2017 est.)
GDP – real growth rate: 8. 3% (2018)
GDP – per capita (PPP): $4,700 (2017 est.)

GDP – composition, by end use:

household consumption: 80.1% (2017 est.)

government consumption: 8.6% (2017 est.)

investment in fixed capital: 13.7% (2017 est.)

investment in inventories: 1.1% (2017 est.)

exports of goods and services: 43% (2017 est.)

imports of goods and services: -46.5% (2017 est.)

GDP – composition, by sector of origin: 
agriculture: 18.3% (2017 est.)
industry: 24.5% (2017 est.)
services: 57.2% (2017 est.)

Agriculture – products: cocoa, rice, cassava (manioc, tapioca), peanuts, corn, shea nuts, bananas; timber
Industries: mining, lumbering, light manufacturing, aluminum smelting, food processing, cement, small commercial ship building, petroleum
Industrial production growth rate: 16.7% (2017 est.)

Labor force: 12.49 million (2017 est.)

Labor force – by occupation: 
agriculture: 44.7% 
industry: 14.4% 
services: 40.9% (2013 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 9.6 % ( July,2018.)

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Africa is the second-largest continent about 30.2 million km2 (11.7 million sq. mi), after Asia, in size and population. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the west and Europe to the north. The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagos.
The population of Africa is estimated at 1.30 billion people as of 2018 accounting for about 16.64% of the world’s human population. Africa’s population is the youngest among all the continents; 50% of Africans are 19 years old or younger. The median age is 19.4 years. 41% of the population is urban. Algeria is Africa’s largest country by area and Nigeria is the largest by population.
Africa, particularly central Eastern Africa, is widely accepted as the place of origin of humans and the Hominidae clade (great apes), as evidenced by the discovery of the earliest hominids and their ancestors, as well as later ones that have been dated to around seven million years ago.

History:
At about 3300 BC, the historical record opens in Northern Africa with the rise of literacy in the Pharaonic civilization of Ancient Egypt. One of the world’s earliest and longest-lasting civilizations, the Egyptian state continued, with varying levels of influence over other areas, until 343 BC.

Climate:
Africa straddles the equator and encompasses numerous climate areas; it is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to southern temperate zones.
The climate of Africa ranges from tropical to subarctic on its highest peaks. Its northern half is primarily desert, or arid, while its central and southern areas contain both savanna plains and very dense jungle (rainforest) regions. In between, there is a convergence, where vegetation patterns such as Sahel and steppe dominate. Africa is the hottest continent on earth and 60% of the entire land surface consists of dry lands and deserts.

Politics:
Today, Africa contains 54 sovereign countries, nine territories and two de facto independent states with limited or no recognition. Connected with the Indian Ocean, the islands of Africa are the Union of the Comoros, Republic of Madagascar, Republic of Seychelles, and Republic of Mauritius. In the Atlantic Ocean we have Republic of Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe. Others are Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, and Eritrea.
The vast majority of African states are republics that operate under some form of the presidential system of rule. The improved stability and economic reforms have led to a great increase in foreign investment into many African nations, mainly from China, which has spurred quick economic growth in many countries, seemingly ending decades of stagnation and decline. 
Some seven African countries are in the top 10 fastest growing economies in the world. If you look at countries like Mozambique, Angola, Ethiopia, Zambia, and Togo – all of those markets have shown exceptional growth and real stability and with that you almost get a new investment climate for these countries. This allows you to have a new emerging middle class and with that comes a very vibrant entrepreneurship culture, businessmen or women who want access to technology and to innovate.

Natural Resources:
The continent is believed to hold 90% of the world’s cobalt, 90% of its platinum, 50% of its gold, 98% of its chromium, 70% of its tantalite, 64% of its manganese and one-third of its uranium. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has 70% of the world’s coltan, a mineral used in the production of tantalum capacitors for electronic devices such as cell phones. The DRC also has more than 30% of the world’s diamond reserves. Guinea is the world’s largest exporter of bauxite.

Economy:
From 1995 to 2005, Africa’s rate of economic growth increased, averaging 5% in 2005. Some countries experienced still higher growth rates, notably Angola, Sudan and Equatorial Guinea, all of which had recently begun extracting their petroleum reserves or had expanded their oil extraction capacity.
Several African economies are among the world’s fastest growing as of 2011. As of 2013, these are some of the Africa countries growing by more than 5.0% in real Gross Domestic Product (GDP). These are South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Rwanda, Mozambique, Eritrea, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Gabon, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Mauritania, Niger, Congo, Zambia, Angola, Uganda, Togo, Nigeria, Morocco and Kenya.
Africa really has the ideal conditions for steady economic growth. A skyrocketing population made up of predominantly younger people is the perfect recipe for a booming economy.
In 2018 we continue to see the same trend for population growth. Compared to 2017, African’s overall population has increased by more than 30 million – 1,256,268,025 in 2017 versus 1,287,920,518 in 2018.
The World Bank’s projections for the sub-Saharan Africa area. According to their 2018 projections for the continent: regional GDP growth of 3.2% (compared to 2.4% last year) is expected this year and an even greater increase of 3.5% is forecasted for 2019.
That’s why keeping an eye out for the top African countries with the fastest economic growth in 2018 is a total must for every potential investor. The abundance of natural resources and a young workforce is what has driven the economic surge on the continent in recent years.
A significant number of 2018’s top performers are non-commodity intensive economies. The list is led by Ghana, followed by Ethiopia and Côte d’Ivoire, with Senegal, Tanzania and Djibouti occupying the fourth, fifth and sixth spots respectively. Africa has six of the world’s ten fastest growing economies this year, according to the World Bank. 
The latest forecast places East African country, Ethiopia at 8.2 percent with the West African nation, Ghana leading the continent at 8.3 percent. Topping the list from the first to the tenth position are: Ghana, Ethiopia, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Benin, Rwanda and Niger.
As the growth in Africa has been driven mainly by services and not manufacturing or agriculture, it has been growth without jobs and without reduction in poverty levels.

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Born in 1971 to a Christian family of scarce resources in Tefle, Volta Region, Ghana, he always dreamed of breaking the back bone of poverty through education. At the age of 12, he received a prophecy that he would be going abroad to further his education. In 1985, at age 14, the prophecy was accomplished but not without difficulties. After taking the exams to send students to Cuba, he placed first in his district but was unlawfully replaced by the son of the most powerful politician of the district. A concerned citizen sent him to the office of President Jerry John Rawlings, when he was allowed to participate in the national test in which he became first. This event was indeed a shock to many.
He was in Cuba for 17 years, right from the junior high school to the medical school and subsequently to the postgraduate specialist course of Neurosurgery. While in Cuba as a student, he continued the brilliant academic work; he won many awards including best student in Chemistry at the Cuban National Level Quizzes for 3 consecutive years where students from 35 countries then studied. He wrote an Organic Chemistry book which was meant for the preparation of the high performance students who aspired to participate in the World Olympiad of Chemistry. He was summa cum laude (first) in all the levels of education including the medical school and the Specialty of Neurosurgery. At the end of the neurosurgical training, he wrote another book in the field of Spinal Surgery called Lumbosacral Discopathies.
When he completed the Neurosurgical course in 2001, the people of Belize found him and took him to that country as they needed Neurosurgical Services which they had never had the privilege of enjoying locally. He performed simple and complex surgeries on many people including the elite of Belize with no surgical mortality in his 5 consecutive years of practice. In the USA, under Dr. Robert Grossman, a well-known neurosurgeon, he worked as a Clinical Research Specialist where he was invited by the Congress of Neurological Surgeons of America to present six papers in their international conferences.
He is Belizean and American citizen by naturalization. After 28 years, he has decided to come back to Africa to help his people as he has come to the convincing realization that he is more needed here than in the United States of America.
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Dr. Emmanuel Voado, MD., is a Ghanaian neurosurgeon trained in Cuba. He was the medical doctor who first opened a neurosurgical service in the country of Belize. He practiced there for 5 years before going to the United States where he resided with his family for 6 years before relocating to Africa in September, 2013.
In Cuba, he was directly involved in the educational system for 17 years and impacted by their health care delivery for 11 years which can all be emulated by third world countries like Ghana who have more natural resources and foreign exchange earners than Cuba. He saw the Cuban government training thousands of students of foreign nations in different courses at the polytechnic and university levels, who then went to their home countries to contribute to their development.
He lived in Belize where he contributed to the healthcare delivery in that nation. Once in the USA, he was personally impacted by all the good things of the American system. One area is the safety network to cater for the destitute. He saw the compassionate character of the Americans in the hospitals and churches which were the two environments he worked and worshiped and he saw how the two organizations will selflessly use their vacation days to go about doing good to the impoverished nations giving out their substance and technical knowhow.
He was deeply touched by this spirit of selflessness and all this helped to shape his world view in the subconscious level till he came to the conscious realization that a meaningful life is not being rich, being popular, being highly educated or being prefect…It is about being real, being humble, being able to share ourselves and touch the lives of others. It is only then that we could have a full, happy and contented life. That is the motive why, by divine grace, he had been able to abandon the lucrative and most rewarding jobs in the Diaspora and now back home to give back to his people.

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The physically disabled are people who have a problem with their body that makes it difficult for them to do things that other people can do easily. Limited access to education, unemployment, stigmatisation, social exclusion, negative socio-cultural perception and poverty are only few of the challenges facing the physically disabled.
People with disabilities often face discrimination in everyday life. They are excluded and rejected because of their physical disabilities. Get to know one of them and see the world through his eyes.
About ten percent of the world population live with a disability. Although, plainly visible in African cities, the physically disabled are often overlooked as they try to earn their living by begging. Some disabled are even locked up by their families, because they are considered to be a disgrace or even a curse by evil spirits.
Conventions certainly protect disabled people. However, the majority continue to encounter barriers within society. They face discrimination in social, economic and cultural life and are frequently denied their right to participate politically and to express their opinion freely.
5.1 The Current Context of the Physically Disabled in Ghana
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are more than 1 billion disabled persons in the world, of which approximately 80% live in low-income countries. In most developing countries, including Ghana, disabled persons constitute an impoverished marginalised group, characterised by lack of access to public health, public buildings, education, and other social services that would ideally support and protect people with disabilities. Economically as well as in social terms, disabled persons in developing countries are classified among the poorest of the poor.
People with disabilities in Ghana are often regarded as unproductive and incapable of contributing in a positive way to society, and rather seen as constituting an economic burden on the family and the society at large, which leaves them in a vicious cycle of poverty.
In developing countries there are rarely strong disability movements actively working to improve the living conditions for people living with disabilities. Disabled persons are often only weakly represented in civil society and Ghana is no exception.
No accurate national survey has been carried out to determine the disability rate in the country. The WHO estimates the disability rate of Ghana to be between 7 and 10 per cent, which equates approximately 1.55 – 2.2 million people in the country. Earlier surveys of individual districts by the Ghana Human Development Scale (GHDS) in 1993 and the Norwegian Association of the Disabled (NAD) in 1998 and 1999 indicated that:
• The three most prevalent types of disability are those related to visual impairment, hearing impairment and physical disabilities.
• The disability rate is the same for males and females.
• The rate is higher in rural areas than in urban areas.
• The rate is lowest in the 0 to 5 years age group and highest for persons who are 50 years of age or older.
In Ghana, the 2010 Population and Housing Census puts the population of severely disabled persons at 3% (737,743). This means that the population of Persons With Disability (PWD) could as well be between 15 and 20%. An estimated 70% of persons with disability live in rural areas and thus encounter a lot of challenges in their participation in decision making and general access to information, resources and opportunities.
In 2012, the estimate was that more than 5 million people with disabilities live in Ghana, one-fifth of the total population, including 2.8 million people with mental disabilities.
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There are only few institutions in Ghana for the physically disabled and the government cannot do this alone, so it is important that concerned citizens and NGOs come together to step up the little that has been done in our society for them, taking it to another level.
It is identified that the low literacy rate among the disabled is the reason for their inability to demand their rights and disabled children have to be enrolled in school and the adults empowered to reverse the trend.
This programme will be appealing to the physically disabled persons to stop depending on begging as a means of their survival. We shall take them from the streets to acquire skills that will enable them to work to support themselves and their families. The physically disabled which are on our streets run the risk of being knocked down by motor vehicles in traffic whilst they roll on their locally fabricated wheels and wheel chairs.
The hidden intellectual potentials in these physically disabled is incalculable. Their artistic potentials are unrecognisable. Let us not continue to throw money at them because they will continue to come and run the risk with their lives on the street every time if we do not empower them to contribute meaningfully to the development of the country. “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
We need to conduct effective disability advocacy, community barrier removal and public education campaigns; develop programs and national policies; and create networks and national coalitions to promote the full inclusion of people with disabilities into all aspects of society. By doing this, the physically disabled will cease to be liabilities and become indispensable assets to our society.
The aim is to support and empower physically disabled people who have no other forms of support in society to develop necessary skills to live independent lives.
The need for this service is the same as that of the Disability Act which provides guidelines for the relevant sectors on how they should respond to the needs of PWDs:
• To educate Ghanaians on the rights, potentials and responsibilities of both society and PWDs
• To generate and disseminate relevant information on disability
• To create an enabling environment for the full participation of PWDs in national development
• To ensure access of PWDs to education and training at all levels
• To facilitate the employment of PWDs in all sectors of the economy
• To promote disability friendly roads, transport, and housing facilities
• To ensure access of PWDs to effective health care and adequate medical rehabilitation services
• To ensure that women with disabilities enjoy the same rights and privileges as their male counterparts
• To ensure that law enforcement personnel in cases of arrest, detention, trial and confinement of PWDs take into account the nature of their disabilities
• To encourage full participation of PWDs in cultural activities
• To ensure access of PWDs to the same opportunities in recreational activities and sports as other citizens
• To promote Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) Programmes as a means of empowering and ensuring the full participation of PWDs in society.

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8.1 DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT
We believe strongly in the potential of disabled people to lead meaningful lives. With proper attention, training and care, the vast majority of the disabled can overcome their disadvantaged position and contribute to society. The key in taking care of the disabled is their empowerment.
Examples of programs of the Cosmopolitan Physically Disabled are: technical assistance, training, bursaries and scholarship, exchange of experiences, consultative trips, legislation, human rights, disabled children promotion, disabled women promotion, inclusive education, functional rehabilitation, institutional development, sports, arts and culture and leisure.
We will improve rehabilitation and other crucial services for disabled people and their families. Through our non-governmental organisation (NGO) Cosmopolitan Miracle Hospitals by the input of the Orthopaedic Surgeons, Neurologists and Neurosurgeons, physical therapists, occupational therapists and speech therapists, we shall assist in the rehabilitation of the physically disabled.
The adult physically disabled can be held in a hostel project as resident students for a limited period in our empowerment centre (usually between 1-4 years). During this time, the students are taught vocational skills at the resource centre in various income generating activities that fit with their capabilities, improve their self-confidence and spirit and prepare them to venture independently after graduation. They can be taught visual arts and rural craft.
They can learn vocations, including and not limited to dressmaking, shoemaking, radio mechanics, leather work and carpentry. They can learn computer science, electronics and all activities that do not entail constant movement from one place to another and those who excel from the very beginning will be encouraged to advance their education and give them scholarships to make it to the university.
As a form of guaranteeing their employment after the school, we shall have a style of manufacture of souvenirs industries where they can have a readily accessible source of job. Their products will be bought by the tourists who will visit The Kingdom City. We shall organize micro financing for those who would like to venture as entrepreneurs to open their own businesses with assessors made available to them for guidance and coaching for the start-up.
The School for the Blind and the Deaf:
The school will be established for the purpose of providing comprehensive educational services for children ages 3-21, which are blind/low vision and/or deaf/hard of hearing providing opportunities to participate in a variety of athletic and leadership development activities. Students participate in extracurricular activities such as music, championship sports, tutoring sessions, field trips, drama, clubs and various recreational activities. The full-time students live on campus during the week and go home on the weekends. There will be no tuition, room or board fee for students whose families cannot afford it. We will take advantage of their tender age to infuse self-confidence into them to attain the highest level of education.
We will prepare students for competitive or supported employment upon graduation through a variety of career exploration and on and off campus work experiences during the year and in their respective hometowns in the summer.
Residential Life. There is much going on after school, as there is during school hours. And it’s all about learning. The residential aspect of the school is a major factor in helping our students learn how to respect themselves, their peers and their community. For some students, it will be the first time, they have to spend with other people who are deaf or hard of hearing or blind — so they begin to learn what they can dream about, what goals they can achieve.
In the process of all this learning, they are playing on the playground, swimming, skating, bowling, doing arts and crafts. They will be a Play Therapy Centre on the campus, where they can crawl through tunnels and wiggle through obstacles or play in a big pit filled with brightly coloured plastic balls. This centre will be a physical therapy facility, but it will be so much fun going through the mazes and slides and playing in the ball pit.
Positive peer groups meet to encourage students to work together. Outdoor gardening skills will be explored with a small group of friends. Dorm activities include weight lifting and walking, and informal talks on topics like social issues and jobs shall be available. A friendly competition between different dorms called “Dorm Wars” will let students collect points for grades and behaviour to win big prizes and trophies after school. Each dorm celebrates birthdays and other special occasions. Dances, field trips and activities fill up the afternoons, with at least an hour every evening reserved for homework and study.
A shop can be opened as a vocational training program to teach kids about the assistive technologies and social skills needed to run a retail establishment. It will teach the skills they need for handling money to be more experienced with social interactions. It is obvious that even though it is our dream to affect the lives of all the physically disabled in the country, this would not be possible at the beginning so there will be outreach programmes to communities where physically disabled live from time to time to give them bags of rice, cooking oil, soap, clothes, etc.
The Foundation will be calling on governments to fill the gaps in data collection on numbers, ages, lifestyles, needs and roles of physically disabled a specific category in national action plans, as well as criminalise all actions by state or non-state actors that deprive physically disabled of their rights. This is done through awareness programmes, radio/TV projects, training/capacity building, advocacy, research, publication, networking, media and consulting services.

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The physically disabled include:
1. By accidents (amputees) and different diseases
2. By deformity (congenital). Among them are acondroplastics, the “little men”
3. Deaf
4. Blind
5. Mentally retarded
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Accra, the capital of Ghana, is furthermore the anchor of a larger metropolitan area, the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), which is home to about 4 million people, making it the largest metropolitan conglomeration in Ghana by population, and the eleventh-largest metropolitan area in Africa.
The headquarters of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation will be located in Bundase in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. This is going to be the site for the new international airport which will become the center of West Africa to the world in the travel and pleasure industry. Apart from this huge international airport, there will be an Airport City with skyscrapers of the Dubai style, the seat of the government and all the ministries, an Olympic Stadium among other infrastructures.
We are acquiring 25, 000 acres of land extending from the Volta River to an area behind the new International Airport to be built in Bundase, to build The Kingdom City which will englobe all the structures of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation. As coalition builders, in the effort of making our projects become auto-sustainable in the future, we will work co-operatively with all individuals and groups, for profit and not for profit corporations and organisations, with government agencies and international bodies committed to the fight to extend help to the needy, subject only to the policies and priorities set by our governing bodies.
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We are grounded on the values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence (I CARE) principle. We shall become a force at the forefront of fighting the cause of the physically disabled in Ghana and from Ghana to the international stage.
We are both grounded in the various United Nations human right declarations and commitments to promote the effective and full implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities worldwide.
With your collaboration we both strive to:
• support and empower physically disabled people who have no other forms of support in society to develop necessary skills to live independent lives.
• eliminate barriers to full social integration and increase employment, economic security, and health care for persons with disabilities. Cosmopolitan Physically Disabled will create innovative programs and tools; and conduct research, public education, training, and advocacy campaigns; and provide technical assistance.
• engage people in their own development, in an authentic way; they have real ownership and power to change their lives and the lives of the people around them.
• help this physically disabled move from emotional and physical frailty to becoming successful passionate business owners and to help them create a better future for themselves and their families. We hope to see as many businesses as possible flourish across the country of Ghana and the world at large and most importantly of all, to see these businesses become both profitable yet sustainable!
• compliment government’s efforts towards reducing poverty in the society.
• achieve the objectives of the Disability Act.

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As a matter of fact the finances are coming from our own sources but as the vision progresses we hope to get both local and international donors to help us accomplish the full extension of the programmes we have envisaged.

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