Nov 27, 2025
For years, OTTN has expressed God’s love through diverse generosity initiatives that meet social needs and touch lives.
In 2015, OTTN stepped in to complete the construction of the Lady Heike Nursery School, helping create a safe and welcoming space for learners. From cement work and ceilings to doors, windows, painting, and furniture, OTTN provided both materials and labour to create a safe and welcoming learning environment. Beyond infrastructure, OTTN committed to paying teachers’ salaries every month and providing hot meals for pupils every school day. During the 2015/2016 academic year alone, 78 children benefited from this support. At Christmas, the joy extended beyond the classroom as each child received a Santa Sack, while their families were blessed with rice and cooking oil.
OTTN’s commitment to children’s education has been extended to Street Academy in Accra, a school serving underprivileged children. Since 2015, OTTN has partnered with the academy through its Back-to-School Programme, providing notebooks and pens to pupils transitioning into mainstream schools. OTTN has also supplied learning materials to strengthen education outcomes, contributed toward the establishment of a medical centre, and donated tables and furniture to improve the classroom experience.
In 2021, OTTN began partnering with the Ma-Pauline Foundation in Ashaiman, supporting the care and well-being of orphaned children. This partnership has continued over the years, helping to provide support to the children’s needs.
In 2025, OTTN visited the foundation again, spending time with the children and engaging in meaningful discussions with Ma-Pauline about ministry and the ongoing impact of the foundation in nurturing and supporting the lives of these children.
In response to the harsh conditions during the Harmattan season, OTTN launched the “Harmattan Love” initiative in 2024. The Harmattan Love initiative extended OTTN’s reach beyond schools and orphanages to vulnerable communities in Northern Ghana. Through this outreach, food, clothing, and essential supplies were shared with widows, orphans, the elderly, and Fulani families, bringing warmth, hope, and practical support during a difficult season. Building on its success, the initiative was extended to Uganda, where the Nuba community and refugees received similar support, fostering unity and opening doors to previously unreached areas.
From schools and orphanages to the streets and rural communities, OTTN continues to be a vessel of God’s love—transforming lives, one act of generosity at a time.
To God be the glory!
Nov 27, 2025
As part of our long-standing partnership with Street Academy, OTTN presented exercise books, pens, and pencils to more than 300 pupils to help them start the 2023/2024 academic year on a strong note.
OTTN’s missions Coordinator shared heartfelt words of encouragement with the children of the academy.
“Our aim is to impact the lives of the children. We want to make a change. We want them to be hopeful and not be moved by their immediate surroundings. That can be done through education and the love for the word of God,” he said. He also encouraged them to take their studies seriously, noting that education remains the key to transforming their future.
The Founder of the Academy, Ataa Lartey, expressed his gratitude for OTTN’s continued support. He noted that gestures like these inspire the pupils to stay committed to learning and to believe in their potential.
“This kind of support motivates our students to know that someone cares about them,” he said. “It encourages them to stay in school and work hard toward becoming responsible citizens.”
Street Academy, which provides education and skills training to less privileged but talented children aged 10 to 14, continues to be a beacon of hope for many young lives through its programs in academics, sports, culture, and dance.
As the pupils return to school, OTTN is grateful to be part of their journey—equipping them with the tools and encouragement they need to thrive.
OTTN remains committed to reaching out, uplifting lives, and pouring out the love of Christ through our generosity initiative.
Jul 19, 2024
Lady Heike Nursery School was established in 2003 by Molly Yankey and Heike Meier. Molly had become aware that when the people of the village of Akatakyiwa worked ,their children (under 5 years) were left in the village with insufficient care or taken to work on the farm or to sit on the roadside where their mothers were selling goods. Heike was then living with Molly as a volunteer.
They decided to establish the nursery school to provide care, education and food for the young children. The aim is to provide support for the families who must work full-time and cannot afford childcare, which forces them to take young children into dangerous work environments rather than nurturing educational settings. It is also to provide the best start to the children in terms of giving them a nutritious meal once a day and setting them off on the path to education. It is hoped that the families will realize the importance of education for both girls and boys, and ensure that once they leave Lady Heike, they go on to complete their education at basic and senior levels.
The chief of the village loaned a building on the Accra-Cape Coast road to Molly for use as the school. Gradually, with the help of Africa’s Future set up by another volunteer, Sarah Holloway, contributions are made to paying the teacher’s salaries and providing the children with 1 meal a day. Another school building was constructed with the help of the British NGO, Projects Abroad, but the building had not been completed due to lack of funds.
OTTN’s work with Lady Heike Nursery School:
- OTTN stepped in to complete this building in 2015, providing the materials and labour to finish the cement work, add ceilings, window and doorframes, shutters and doors, painting, and school desks and chairs.
- OTTN makes a monthly commitment to pay the teacher’s salaries and provide a hot lunchtime meal for each child attending the school. In the 2015/2016 academic year there are 78 children benefitting from this.
- At Christmas OTTN gave ‘Santa Sacks’ to each child that attends the school, with a bag of rice and a bottle of oil distributed to the families of current and past students.
- OTTN is in the process of making new playground equipment to replace the rusted, broken and dangerous equipment that sat in the playground of the nursery school. This is being made with the support of the following: Mr Mono Sethi of Sethi Brothers has provided the steel at cost, Mr Addi Sethi of Premier Steel had donated the paint at no cost, Mr Brehen Majdoub of Pro-Matrix is making the playground equipment at cost. OTTN is paying Sethi Brothers and Pro-Matrix, covering the costs associated with transport, and purchasing the materials needed to cement the equipment into the ground.
Looking forward: Lady Heike Nursery School is accessed from either the busy main road on which it sits, or by a forest footpath that passes to the village behind. OTTN will, in 2016, put safety barriers between the old school building and the main Accra-Cape Coast road (costing to be completed). OTTN will also provide a footbridge and guttering to enable the children to reach the school from the village during the rainy seasons (costing to be completed). OTTN will also continue to pay the monthly cost of the teachers’ salaries and children’s food.
Mar 2, 2022
OTTN has been working with Street Academy since 2015 for the Back to School Programme. This entails distributing notebooks and pens to pupils that have graduated from the Street Academy and are being enrolled in mainstream school.
- OTTN made a donation towards the establishment of a medical centre.
- OTTN makes a yearly donation of medical supplies to the school.
- In December, OTTN throws a Christmas party for the students
