Dominase

The work to help teenage girls miss fewer school lessons because of their menstrual periods is progressing well at the two schools where it is being trialled.

Many girls cannot access or afford expensive products and this can lead to them missing one week in every four of their teenage school career.

Missing a quarter of their time at school can have a major impact on their educational attainment, confidence and self-esteem and so Buriton’s charity link is trying to help.

Are you nifty with a needle, talented with thread or super at sewing?

If so, then you are just the person Buriton Village to Village Group (V2V) needs.

The group is currently setting up a project to help teenage girls in the village’s sister community in Dominase, Ghana, make their own relatively cheap, simple, sustainable period products.

Many of the girls can’t afford the products which can lead them to miss one week in every four at school.

2023 was another productive year in Buriton’s sister community of Dominase, thanks to money raised through generous donations, legacy bequests and other fund-raising activities.

Scores of teenage girls in Buriron’s sister community of Dominase in rural Ghana miss many of their school lessons because of their menstrual periods.

To help with this big problem, Buriton’s Village-to-Village Group has commenced a trial at two secondary schools involving about 30 girls.

Many girls in rural Ghana cannot access or afford expensive products and this can lead to them missing one week in every four of their teenage school career.

All tickets have now been sold for this opportunity to dust off your dancing shoes and blow away those January blues with one of Buriton’s big barn dances (7pm to 11pm). 

Live music from the popular Rampagers and a cash bar. 

All proceeds go to Buriton’s “Village-to-Village” charity. 

As anticipated, at only £10 per ticket it’s sold out quite quickly. 

Another successful Careers Event was held in July and a project to help teenage girls to miss less school lessons because of their menstrual periods is being developed.

Buriton’s small charity helps 12 Junior High schools in the Dominase area (as well as 13 Primary Schools) and this year’s Careers Event enabled about 700 children from the JH schools to hear from a range of speakers including a midwife, a doctor, an agricultural expert, an engineer, teachers and bank managers.

In spite of some Covid challenges, 2022 was another productive year in Buriton’s sister community of Dominase in rural Ghana, thanks to money raised through generous donations, legacy bequests and other sources.

And it was also possible to check that projects undertaken in the past are still proving useful.

This popular event, orchestrated by Paul Martin, returns and should provide an evening of fun and a refreshing antidote to normal quizzes.

All previous years have completely sold out - so please book your places early.

Teams can be up to 8 people - but any number can enter and the organisers can help link you up with others if necessary.

A new idea was added to Buriton’s strong links with the rural community of Dominase in the far north of the Central Region of Ghana recently.

After months of planning during the Covid pandemic, the ‘Village-to-Village’ Group in our sister community held the first ever ‘Careers Event’ in this entire part of Ghana.

Developed with support from Buriton, the event was designed to help children consider which subjects to study in their last years at school.

In Ghana, when children are 14 they move from a Junior High School to a Senior High School and study only three subjects.

But how do they know what to choose? Which subjects will help them into suitable jobs? Are children in rural schools even aware of the range of jobs that they could consider?

Buriton’s long-standing link with the community of Dominase in the Central Region of Ghana is arranging a new (hopefully annual) ‘Careers Event’ to help children consider which subjects to study in their last years at school.