The Foundation

THE KUNKE FOUNDATION

We are a small foundation working in a small town to make a big difference. The Kunke Foundation is inspired by KUNKE and its philosophy to add value to human lives by making things that are beautiful and that bring smiles to our lives. Somewhere in Ghana a small town called Mensakrom, in the central region of the country, we have planted a golden seed and what we do is to water and nurture it into the dream come true.

Our Foundation’s work is basically designed to accomplish the following goals for the town of Mensakrom.

Reduce illiteracy among children and youth by emphasizing and promoting quality education and learning
Make every child of school age attend school
To get every child reading in the village.
To bring the evolving beauty of the digital world to their doorstep through a village IT program.
To network the children of Mensakrom to opportunities outside their own small world through exchange program initiatives, but to also make it a model center of opportunities for its surrounding villages.
To build a clean healthy town
To provide guidance for growing teenagers as they walk into the future

HOW THE FOUNDATION WORKS
The foundation’s programmes are built to establish focus, target goals and employ consistent medium to long term strategies in cost effective ways; and all these are done with the local people using their own creative energies, their talent, skills and resources in the spirit of self help; tapping into their own dream for their children to implement and actualize the projects and programs. We employ volunteers and network with big and small organizations that believe and share our beliefs and have a passion to help.

THE MODEL TOWN
Kunke foundation has adopted Mensakrom as its model town and has begun a series of specific programmes to cause a transformation. The programmes are basically focused on children and teenagers. The whole idea is that 15years from now Mensakrom will firmly be in the hands of today’s young teenagers, 15years from now its young children will be getting ready to make important transitions to adulthood. Between now and then the future of Mensakrom and its inhabitants will be determined by the choices and opportunities created for today’s young ones.

Modeling the future of Mensakrom means focusing on the future of its children and youth of today and our concept of that model town is our dream for its children. The two together makes the vision of The Kunke Foundation and we believe that being creatively consistent, having a long term focus, initiating change, inspiring the people, enlightening their paths and making them believe in themselves through the work we do, can get us there.