According to Miss Djaba, she realised that parents in the community often let their children work to support the family due to high levels of poverty. With support of friends and other like minded individual, she was able to raise some capital to put up a makeshift school for the children. Her uncle, a trained teacher also agreed to teach the children.

The foundation provides basic education at no cost to the pupils, including free books and other learning materials. ‘We provide basic literacy and numeracy up to grade four and then enrol them in mainstream schools’, she added. At the moment, there are about 80 regular students at the school and about 20 others who attend classes intermittently whenever their parents/guardians permit.

The pupils attend school at 8am and close at 2pm, and usually work to assist their families in the afternoon. This concession is necessary to get families to work with the school and allow the children to attend classes.

Lila Macqueen Djaba says that apart from getting parents to allow their wards to come to school, the biggest challenge the foundation faces is the lack of financial support to run the school. She is particularly grateful to her sponsors including Dr Sam Jonah, Ghana Finacial, the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), and Nana Prah Agyensaim VI,