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Article 1 -- Name and Purpose
The name of this organization is the Youth Development & Aged Welfare foundation.
. Its purpose is to promote the creation of a global dialog among the youth and Aged of the world. The Youth Development & Aged Welfare foundation.
Emphasizes Youth developments, but also supports the Age in our various communities in Ghana.
The Youth Development & Aged Welfare foundation.
Works to achieve its objectives through the Poultry farming and other Projects, a worldwide collaboration of many people who have volunteered to organize and support local participation in the Youth Development & Aged Welfare foundation Project global dialog.
The Youth Development & Aged Welfare foundation. .
Is a non-profit organization?
Article 2 -- Location of Organization
The Youth Development & Aged Welfare foundation.
Is a community and national organization with Ghana as its base of operations? Legal questions that may arise in connection with the Youth Development & Aged Welfare foundation. Will be decided on the basis of Ghanaian law.
Article 3 -- Membership
Membership in the Youth Development & Aged Welfare foundation.
is open to any person or organization wishing to support the purpose and goals of the foundation, There are three types of membership: (1) individual membership, (2) organizational membership, and (3) youth membership. There are no geographic or age restrictions on individual membership. Organizational memberships carry the same rights and privileges as individual memberships; each organizational member must designate a person to exercise those rights and privileges. Youth and Old Aged memberships are open to young people and Old Aged participating in the Youth Development & Aged Welfare foundation Project.
Article 4 -- THE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT &AGED WELFARE FOUNDATION BOARD
The Youth Development &Aged welfare foundation Board consists of one representative from each of the following ten Regions in Ghana. In addition, the foundation Executive Director is automatically a member of the Board.
Regional representatives to the board serve for staggered three-year terms. They are elected by the members of the Youth Development &Aged welfare foundation in the region they represent. In these elections, each person who is either an individual member and/or is designated as the representative of an organizational member has one vote.
In the absence of candidates from listed world area(s), the elected members of the Board may appoint temporary Board members to represent those areas until appropriate candidates can be identified.
The Youth Development &Aged welfare foundation Board is the ultimate authority for all decisions of the foundation. It is responsible for
1. The establishing of policies, guidelines and procedures for the projects and the delegation of authority to the Executive Director and the Core Team to carry them out.
2. The appointment of the Executive Director and members of the projects Core Team.
3. The establishing of categories or levels of membership within each type and the setting of a schedule of dues.
4. The management of the financial arrangements of the Youth Development &Aged welfare foundation. Members of the Board are not personally responsible for the debts of the foundation.
Meeting of Youth Development &Aged welfare foundation Board take place via telecommunications and general meeting with the appropriate curters . Decisions require the affirmative vote of at least half the Board members with no more than a single negative vote.
ARTICLE 5 -- THE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT &AGED WELFARE FOUNDATION CORE TEAM
The people responsible for running the central activities of the foundation Projects are members of the Core Team. This group makes the operational decisions for the project.
Members of the Core Team are appointed (and can be removed) by the Youth employment foundation Board upon recommendation of the Executive Director. Each member of the Core Team has responsibility for a specific set of the foundations activities.
Article 6 -- The Youth Development &Aged welfare foundation
Executive Director
The Executive Director is the administrator of the foundation and the central activities of the foundation Projects. He (or she) selects the members of the Core Team (subject to approval by the foundation Board) and coordinates their activities. The Executive Director is also the official representative of the foundation in all legally binding negotiations.
The Executive Director is both a Board member and a Core Team member. In case of vacancy, the Board will be responsible for recruiting, selecting, and appointing the new Executive Director.
Article 7 -- Decision Procedures
The decisions of the foundation will be done by the Core Team which consist of all the executives and representatives will be made using Board meeting.
Archives of the discussions and decisions will be kept. The archives of both the Board and the Core Team will be open to members of both groups.
Policy decisions affecting the foundation Projects will be made after open discussion with the membership and with the many volunteers supporting local participation in the foundation Projects.
ARTICLE 8 -- REMOVAL FROM BOARD MEMBERSHIP
When members of The Youth Development & Aged Welfare foundation
Board are no longer willing or able to carry out their responsibilities, they are expected to resign. If necessary, the foundation Board can remove someone from Board membership. This includes the possibility of removing the Executive Director. These decisions will be made using the same decision procedures used for other decisions.
Article 9 -- Dissolution of The Youth Development &Aged welfare foundation
The foundation can be dissolved by action of the Board. The foundation will also cease to exist when both the Executive Director position is vacant and three or more of the Board positions are vacant. Any assets remaining will be donated to Ydawf ghana
Article 10 -- Amendments and Revisions
The Articles of Association of The youth development & aged welfare foundation can be amended by vote of the membership. The proposed revision must be circulated for discussion for at least one month. Acceptance of the change will require the affirmative vote of at least two thirds of the members. Each person who is either an individual member and/or is designated as the representative of an organizational member has one vote.
ARTICLE 11 -- INITIAL ACCEPTANCE
These Articles of Association are presented by an Organizing Committee consisting of Mr. Daniel Okyere Nyanor Mr Samuel Kwasi Asante, Mr Kenneth Obeng Eric and Mr Emmanuel Kummasah and Linda Obeng, Leslie Akiti. They will serve as the initial members of the Board. Mr Daniel Okyere Nyanor will be the foundation Executive Director and the other members of the Organizing Committee will serve as the Core Team.
The Initial Board will oversee the announcement of the foundation and the recruitment of members. Within one year of the opening of the foundation to members, the Initial Board will call elections for the regular members of the Board.
EXPLANATION:
The major purpose of this is to create a legal entity so that we can receive funds to support all our projects. We expect the project to run very much the way it has with policy discussions in YEF-SERVICE-LEARNING The major difference will be that the Board will decide when a consensus has been reached rather than just Mr Daniel Okyere Nyanor.
We are definitely NOT planning to charge money to participate in the foundation projects. Membership is voluntary and one will be required to pay dues to participate.
We have deliberately avoided naming specific lists like SERVICE-LEARNING. We may want to (or be forced to) change the structure of our lists. It should not require a change in the Articles of Association to do this.
VISSION STATEMENT
Ydawf Ghana Vision is to develop the youth in continuous workplace learning in a teamwork environment, each youth develops personal and technical skills to make a significant career contribution to firm and agencies that compete in a knowledge-base global economy.
MISSION STATEMENT
Our mission it creating a renewing employment and business opportunities and truly realize sustainable development through youth employment and Aged welfare.
AIMS/OBJECTIVES
? To identify and prevent abuses, neglect, and exploitations of Aged through advocacy and lobbying.
? To improved youth education in the deprived towns of Ghana and to join the struggle aimed at alleviating poverty, youth unemployment as well as creating an enable environment for youth education in Ghana.
? To provide high quality, integrated health care service for the Aged in society.
? To promote strategies that empower and enable communities, individual and youth to realize their own development through participatory and evaluation, training network and resource mobilization.
? To address the issues of youth unrest through organizing sporting activities to keep them informed.
20th FEBRUARY 1999
P. O. Box.8171 Accra-north, Ghana.
Tele: 0233-21-688133 /253348
fax: 253348/688133 mobile: +233-20-8130754/27-7437102
E-mail: yefghana@yahoo.com optimistgh20@yahoo.com
Founders: Kenneth Obeng Eric & Mr Daniel Okyere Nyanor.
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