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The Purpose of Project OKURASE (Opportunity, Knowledge, Understanding, Renewed Health, Arts-Based, Skills training, Education) is to address the HIV/AIDS crisis in Ghana by helping children who are impacted by HIV/AIDS in their family and their village. The overarching objectives toward this purpose are to provide skills training and formal education to vulnerable children and women and to connect orphaned children with families, called Way Forward Families, that have the capacity to meet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of childhood that will allow the children to grow healthfully into strong and independent adults. By coming together in a show of unity, the Centre and families will work to meet the following needs of children: