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	BERNARD ISRAEL KORBLA DODHIE FIAGBE


Title and Organization:		Youth Empowerment and Development Ministries
Gender and Age:		Male, 29
Location:		Accra, Greater Accra
Country of Residence:		Ghana
Country of Birth:		Ghana
Nationalities:		Ghanaian
Languages:		English



Website:		http://projects.takingitglobal.org/yedem-ghana
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About Me

Bernard I.K.D. Fiagbe is my name, young man of twenty eight from the Anlogah at own along the coast of Keta in the Volta Region of Ghana.

I was born and bread in Accra the capital city of Ghana, I had my primary education in Daras Preparatory School and continued at Daras Preparatory Junior Secondary School and completed August 1996 with distinction. While awaiting my results, I sized the opportunity to attend to Garrison Computer Training Inst.

I attended Ghana Secondary School Technical (GSTS) at Takoradi in the western region of Ghana. At SSS I studies Building Technology with a primary aim of being a civil engineer. In secondary I had much interest in the game of basketball, because my height of six feet was of a great advance to me in this game, friends and relations keeping encouraging me to take basketball as a full time profession.

Back in school I participated in number of clubs activities such as Pensa, Accra Boys Clubs and GUNSA (Ghana United Nation Student Association). GUNSA was formed to educate the second cycle institution body about the use of drugs, through peer education, the around the year 1998 western region recorded the highest in HIV/AIDS infection among the youth.

Just after secondary education I furthered my computer studies with Tedds Investment Technology at the same working for GREDA Youth Club on voluntary basics, I had diploma in Desk Top Publishing.
Due to my hard work and dedication I my instructor Alex Kotoka offered me a teaching position as Datus Complex Schools in Tema as the computer instructor for the junior secondary department.

During my term of office in this school I form a Datus HIV/AIDS Awareness Club to educate students about the this pandemic with provision of booklets from Ghana AIDS Commission, since disease was very prevalent in this town. Back home a friend and my self formed World Youth Mission (WYM), where we were working with venerable children in the community, by giving free computer training and provision of shoes and clothes.

I was introduced to ISAAC International by Pastor David Botchway, the current national director of ISAAC Ghana, whom I worked with to introduce this organisation in Ghana. Just last year 2006, I had the opportunity with Rev Simon Ampety to attend ISAAC’s Addictive Behaviour Course in Egypt seven weeks. Around the same period I had the opportunity to attend the congress, where I had certificate in Addiction Studies sanctioned by Net Training Institute of World Federation of Therapeutic Communities.

I currently represent Youth Empowerment and Development Ministries, it youth oriented organisation that seeks to equip the youths through any means possible develop their God given potentials for the maximum benefit of their respective communities.

I have just started a projects dubbed drug-free, this programme is formulated to educated and equip youth leaders extensively about the dangers of drug use and HIV/AIDS and go back with materials that will be provide to start a stable Awareness Projects in their communities, which will periodically monitored by YEDEM regional reps.

Its our visions to pioneer outreach programmes to the other youth addicts on our street and also use this project to raise awareness and the need for a drug rehabilitation centre in Ghana, at the end of the day we wanted to advocate for the 2006 Red Sea Declaration of the ISAAC Congress. In the Ghanaian community issues pertaining drugs are criminalised and victims jailed for drug use.

These projects will be made possible by trainees from ISAAC-Ghana, Ghana AIDS Commission, Freedom Centre, Egypt. We are also in the negotiation with other NGOs, other religious bodies and government agencies support us financially.

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