Our current projects involve improving basic education in the village by developing the human resource base and the infrastructure in the only primary and junior school in the village.

Human Resource Development

• ADF is sponsoring some needy but brilliant children in the school.
• Witht he help of individuals and organizations, ADF has provided books, stationary, and furniture to the school.
• ADF provides financial assistance to the teachers who are poorly paid to encourage them to remain in the village.
• ADF has instituted annual speech and prize-giving day to recognize and award the outstanding children in the school.

Infrastructure

• With the assistance of the Central Baptist Church in the UK and the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Clara, California, the ADF built a modern library and IT center with twenty computers for the school in August 2005. A group of seventeen students and young adults from the Central Baptist Church spent three weeks in the village assisting the local team in completing the project.
• The IT center has been connected to the Internet with funds provided by the Central Baptist Church.
• Village Volunteers provided equipment and cable for networking the computers in the school's newly built IT center.

Public Health Malaria Prevention Program

With the support of the Infant Malaria Prevention Program (IMPF), a non-governmental organization, a malaria prevention and treatment program has been established in Atorkor.

• Doctors and pharmacists were brought to the village to examine all children under five years of age and diagnose any symptoms of malaria. The children were then treated if signs of active malaria were present.
• A school curriculum was written for the village school. This malaria project was taught over a period of four weeks and culminated with an assembly of the villages in which the students taught all of the villagers the basic facts about malaria and its prevention.
• The school processed Neem tree leaves as a low cost product that can be used as a larvaecide. Trials are now underway to determine the efficacy of this product.
• One microscope has been made available to teach the students (500) how to recognize the larvae in stagnant water and how to recognize the female anopheles mosquito that passes the malaria parasite from one person to another.
• Launch of sanitation program - regular cleaning of the beach and other parts of the village.