Our Mission
& Values

The Lovey Foundation believe that poverty, inequality and inequity which breed powerlessness can all be eliminated.  We are deeply rooted in the values and culture of the people among whom we operate.  We are committed to promoting basic education for deprived children and working closely with communities to guarantee their safety and full integration into the society in which they live. 

Background
The Lovey Foundation was launched in Bawku Municipal District in the Upper East Region of Ghana in
July 2013 by Aruk Thomas Lateef to help and support disadvantaged children in the rural areas of that Municipal District.  The Lovey Foundation aims to achieve this by providing them with the access to gain at least a primary school education by removing the barriers that at present prevent so many children, especially girls, from gaining even a basic education. It intends to constructively challenge the attitudes of some parents and carers and to provide them with the support, the encouragement and the reasons for sending their wards to school.


Lovey Foundation (UK)

Lovey Foundation (Ghana)’s sister organisation is Lovey Foundation (UK). At the initiative of
Dr Yaa Asare, our current Secretary, the first (Sussex) supporters of what later became Lovey Foundation (UK) met informally for the first time in Brighton on 7 August 2014. Yaa had been a visiting lecturer in the University of Winneba in Ghana in 2012, where she had been asked by Aruk Thomas Lateef (then a student teacher at the university) to lead the research in his native Bawku to facilitate his aim to set up what became Lovey Foundation (Ghana), as described above. Lovey Foundation (UK) was formally established in the UK as a Community Based Organisation on 9 March 2016, when it adopted its first Constitution. Later, in October 2020, it was registered by the Charity Commission of England and Wales [charity no. 1191631]. Lovey Foundation (UK) raises funds and accepts grants and donations so that, working in partnership with Lovey Foundation (Ghana), it can supply the materials needed to assist as many children as possible to attend school in Bawku Municipal District. 

Lovey Foundation (Ghana)
In July 2013 the Lovey Save Child Workers Foundation (Lovey Foundation) was launched by  a committee led by Aruk Thomas Lateef to help and support disadvantaged children in Bawku Municipal District, where 70% of people are involved in subsistence agriculture. It provides them with access to at least a primary school education by removing barriers that prevent this, especially for girls.  Working with parents and carers, the Lovey Foundation gives them support, encouragement and convincing reasons for sending their wards to school.
 
When the Lovey Foundation (UK) Secretary, Dr Yaa Asare, was in Ghana in 2012, she led the research in Bawku, supported by  Aruk Thomas Lateef (then a student teacher at the university where she was a visiting lecturer) and his family. This encouraged the setting up of the Lovey Foundation with a Constitution in June 2012.  So the UK sister organisation has very close links with the work done in Bawku.

LOVEY FOUNDATION GHANA VISION     
“A society in which poverty is reduced and disadvantaged children, males and females, with or without disabilities, are enabled and empowered enough to live a life of dignity.”
 
LOVEY FOUNDATION GHANA MISSION
“To work with resource poor and marginalised communities to eliminate child rights abuses, reduce poverty and enhance children’s access to basic education and other necessities of life, as a right.”