REDCAPA International Foundation = Stichting REDCAPA Internationaal
REDCAPA International Foundation supports education and health projects in developing countries and contributes to the ecology.
At present, REDCAPA focuses on the following projects:
- Drinking water, a health clinic and primary schools for poor small farmer communities of some 30,000 people in a remote area of Ghana (Issah Krom, Sekyere Afram Plains, Ashanti)
- Ecological projects such as the capture of CO2 by planting trees in Argentina.
- A microcredit programme for small farmers in the North of the Ghanaian Ashanti region.
- Joint dinners for people that live alone or have limited means in the village of Oegstgeest: www.IedereenisBijzonder.nu
Ad1: The subsistence farmers of the 25 hamlets around Issah Krom had no access to clean drinking water. Women and children had to walk many miles to harvest surface water from ponds and the Afram river. REDCAPA helped to create 4 boreholes, ensuring no one in the communities has to walk more than one and a half mile to tap clean water.
As the nearest health centre is more than 10 miles away and this cannot even be reached in the rainy season, a health clinic has been built by REDCAPA at Issah Krom that provides preventive and simple curative health care as well as basic emergency obstetric and neonatal care by trained midwives of the Ghana Health Service. REDCAPA also built staff housing and latrines and provided the clinic with solar electricity. REDCAPA has officially handed over the clinic to the Ghana Health Service but continues to contribute to the maintenance of the clinic.
Ad2: After having supported the creation and growth of the Doctorate on the Sustainable Economics of Natural Resources for the Andean Region at the National Agricultural University ‘La Molina’ of Lima, Peru in recent years, REDCAPA is focussing on supporting ecological projects such as those that bring about biodiversity and the capture of carbon dioxide.
Ad3: According to the Nobel Peace Prize winning World Food Programme both the urban and rural poor of Ghana were in danger of malnutrition and starvation due to secondary effects of COVID19. Being acquainted with the small farmers mentioned above and having provided limited amounts of agricultural credit in past years, in 2020 REDCAPA started a microcredit programme to enhance poor farmers producing additional food. This programme has contributed to growing near to 1000 tonnes of additional rice until 2025.
Ad4: From July 2019 onwards, REDCAPA has organised and executed over 140 meals for the lonely elderly in the village of Oegstgeest. o
