What We Do
Objectives
- To encourage the organization and registrationg of
women groups for their mutual benefit.
- To assist groups mobilize founds from members and to
promote savings habit among group members.
- To acquire and introduce new ideas and technology to
group
members to enhance the performance of their activities especially their
economic tasks.
- To provide training in areas that will promote
co-operative
enterprise, technology application and in areas that will generally
assist in developing the potential of group members to undertake viable
enterprises.
- To gather information and on the basis of this
information
promote activities that will enhance the development of member groups
and women in Northern Ghana in general.
- Without prejudice to the generality of the
immediately preceding
clauses, the Maata-N-Tudu Association in futherance of its objectives
shall engage in the following:
- Provide a forum for the discussion
of rural development policies and activities as they affect women.
- Provide lieteracy training in English as well as
Numeracy to make them functionally literate.
- Educate rural women on socio-cultural issues that
affect
their progress i.e. teenage pregnancy, health of mothers and children,
obnoxious traditional practices, drug abuse, and HIV/AIDS.
Operational Area
The Association operational area stretch to cover sixteen districts in
the three Northern Regions of Ghana. These are Tolon/Kumbungu,
Savelugu/Nanton,
East Mamprusi/Bunkpurugu Yunyoo and Tamale Metropolis, Bolga municipal,
Bongo, Kassena, Nankana and Bawku West districts of the Upper East and
Wa East, Wa Municipal, Wa West and Nadowli in the Upper West Regions.
Clientele Base
It is presently made up of 328 groups. Comprising 210 groups in
northern region, 53 in Upper East region and 65 in Upper West region.
The total membership is
8932 with 4933 members being active loan beneficiaries.
Clients/Beneficiaries
Maata-N-Tudu Association's beneficiaries or clients are the rural and
urban poor women and their children in the
three northern regions of Ghana.