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A BRIEF INTRODUCTION OF THE NGO

The Lost Talent Foundation (LTF) is a Non-Governmental (Non-Profit) organization founded on the 10th May 2004 at Assin Foso (Assin North & South District) in the Central Region with funds and programmes managed by it’s won trustees and directors to aid the youth with God given talent and the school going age but have lost their talents due to financial reasons and other personal reasons. The basic objective of this foundation is to promote;

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Sustainable development and economic growth by putting local resources and skills into good use for the youth and people in the Assin District and its surrounding villages and the entire region.

This can be achieved by developing programmes that will enable talented people to contribute their quota meaningfully to achieve sustainable developments. The first phase of this project would be limited to the rural area and would be gradually moved to the urban centers. The reason being that, people are crowded in the towns and cities of this country basically to find white color job. Most of these people having stayed in the rural areas of this country posses some useful skills which through proper education would go a long way as a whole. It would also help to curb streetism which has been a major set back in the cities of this country.

Experts would be made to scrutinize the people and to find out their capabilities. When such talent is exposed, they will then organize into specialized groups where their various talents would be protected. Seminars would be organized in the second cycle institutions and junior secondary school to enlighten students with talents, brilliants and the needy ones to acknowledge such God given skills and talents and put them into good use.

Educators believe that gifted students require special educational services because their learning needs differ significantly form those of the general population. They learn more rapidly and are able to understand more abstract and complex ideas. They are also able to transform  existing knowledge into new and useful forms and to create a new knowledge recognized for its originality and elegance. Special education services and facilities for gifted children may their abilities. In addition, some gifted children may require special counseling service to address their social and emotional adjustments issues that are completed by their exceptional abilities,

Giftness can simply be simply defined as exceptionally advanced performance in intellectual, create, leadership, artistic or specific academic field. Children who demonstrate outstanding talents come from all social, cultural and economic groups. What is pre-existent in our part of the world is that the capabilities of the category in people are more often than not misappropriated where as in the United States and other parts of the developed world special programmes are designed specifically to meet the needs of gifted people; Ghana and for that…

The gifted in our part of the world are not used meaningfully to attain the sustainable development.In Ghana and many parts of West Africa, it is not surprising to see a person who is talented in craftsmanship but being forced by parents and other relations to do a practically different discipline that does not have any connection with the talent of such individual. Squared pegs are more often than not forced into round holes which yield practically nothing. The phrase one often hears along the streets in the par of our world is I am in the wrong profession why should this be so? God being so good blesses the poor with talents that would enable such people chance their state in life. However, the inadequacies of the prerequisite capital to put such talent into good use pose a whole lot of problems to these people.

They therefore end up in a profession which does not correlate with any of their innate abilities. It is therefore not surprising to see many young people of school going age along the street of the major cities selling dog chains, bread, toilet rolls and the likes.

On the other hand, the privileged few whose parents pursue certain educational discipline which of course, might not be in their interest. What happens is that, the effort of such parents are wasted due to the fact that, the children whom they are financing do not have any interest in what they have been forced to do. The world has an explosion of talents in the last two decades that propelled the developed world into new heights.

According to a report of the Council of State Directors of Gifted Programmes (CSDGP), there is an effort to modify the education of gifted children focused on providing early entrance to school and college. In regard to this, educational career programmes would be organized to assist them choose the right career.

The programme also takes into account children whose talents are cut off from school. That is to say, those who have creative abilities such as football, craft, basketry and the likes. It would be the right direction if Africa and for that matter developing countries like Ghana also adopt or develop a way of using the talents and capabilities of gifted children its fullest.

With dint of hard work by the management, this Foundation would ever remain to improve the sustainability of its aims.