CRAN Ghana

• Start 1992
• Summer 1994: Car financed by special donation
• September 1994: CRAN registered as NGO
• November 1994: CRAN office in Cape Coast
• December 1994: CRAN on Panafest represented
• May 1995: social welfare status; Admission of national service workers
• Summer 1996: Participation on national Cultural festival
• Summer 1997: Participation in Panafest
• Summer 1999: Participation in Panafest
• At the end of of 1999: 25 head -, secondary and permanent honorary coworkers
• May 2000: Replaced CRAN car by transporter
• July 2000: Enlargement of the office capacities
• Autumn 2001: Appointment of a co-ordinator for the Volta region
• At the end of of 2001: Extension board and organization into different working groups
• Spring 2002: Beginning of the work on the Hohoe Office
• In the middle of 2002: 52 coworkers (42 full-time ones, 7 partial time, 3 permanent volunteers), of it 22 women
• December 2002/February 2003: Attendance of the association DAZ in Ghana and beginning of a co-operation
• 2005: Implementing social investmend fund in behalf of Ghanaian Government

Abakam

• 1993: Establishment of church
• October 1993: Kindergarten with 50 children
• September 1994: Kindergarten and 1. Class with 73 children
• 1995: Church has approx. 70 members
• October 1995: 2. Class in provisional accommodation; altogether 102 pupils
• August 1996: Area for 2. and 3. Class finished; Promise of Presbyterian Church for the assumption of the school
• October 1996: 3. Class; Church adjusted four teachers
• 1997: 4. Class; Commencement of construction block 2 (further three areas)
• Summer 98: Completion block 2 (classes 4-6); 5. Class
• September 1999: 6. Class
• At the end of of 1999: 229 children in kg and school, municipality with 90 adults members
• Spring 2000: Improvement school equipment (teaching material...)
• Summer 2000: Commencement of construction block 3
• Autumn 2000: Completion block 3 (classes 7-9); 7. Class
• Spring 2001: Extension of the school library
• Autumn 2001: Installation of a mill for the processing of Cassava and corn
• Winter 2002: Contacts of the school with a school in Mecklenburg Vorpommern over co-operation with DAZ
• 2003: The first children finish school

Liati Wote

• August 94: first official meetings with the village community
• Autumn 94: Training centre in customs houses planned
• 1995: Customs house yet not left by the state
• August 1995: Workshop beekeeping; Opening family planning station
• January 1996: Carpenter workshop
• July 1996: Workshop beekeeping, snail breed, vegetable growing; Interest in family planning grows; first afforestation activities
• August 1996: Village community may use customs house
• 1997: Use of the customs house no longer possible; Mills for processing of Cassava and palm kernals ordered
• April 1998: Start sewing course with used sewing machines from Germany; Order of a Diesel engine for the mills
• Spring 1999: The mills are installed with engine in a again built hut; however still important parts are missing
• Summer 1999: Test run of the mills
• February 2000: final start-up of the mills
• 2000: An old classroom is to be converted for sewing school
• Autumn 2001: Workshops in mushroom breed, beginning of a mushroom production (oyster mushrooms)
• Autumn 2001: Installation of a second mill for palm kernals
• Autumn 2001: Beginning of a snail production
• Spring 2002: Beginning of a woman enterprise for the production of palm oil with division of labor.
• Spring 2002: Projects for afforestation and improvement of the agriculture
• October 2002: official opening of a training centre for the region
• November 2005: The Integrated Rural Development Training and Resource Centre (IRDTRC), a Vocational School established, has got a Computer Centre

Hohoe / Volta Region

• Autumn 2001: Appointment of a full-time coordinator for the Volta region
• Spring 2002: Commencement of construction for a central CRAN office for the Volta region
• March 2002: Beginning of a co-operation with the Ghana action Germany (today: africa action/Germany), projects are located in Fodome-Helu, Likpee-Bakua and Gbi-Atabu.
• 2003: Village Enterprises Development Promotion Programme (VEDPP): Extended agriculture projects, 42 productive village companies (oil processing, mushroom and snail farming, irrigated dry season vegetable farming, cassava dough and gari processing, poultry farming, piggery Production, pineapple, cashew and pawpaw for export).
  
• 2004: Building of vocational school for technical education in Gbi-Atabu
• 2005: Help projects for refugees from Togo, in cooperation with DAZ
• February 2005: Tractor for farming projects donated by DAZ
• October 2005: Two projects in the volta region will be funded by the World Bank through the Ministry of Food and Agriculture.
• October 2006: Vocational school Gbi-Atabu starts computer hardware training

Shama Kedzi

• October 1994: Kindergarten opens with 50 children
• 1995: Church builds on own initiative
• Autumn 1995: Expansion on school (class 1)
• April 1996: Altogether 105 pupils in provisional accommodation
• August 1996: New floodings: Village at current position in danger; Municipality continues to build nevertheless without CRAN support; CRAN wants to build school landinward
• August 1997: First Workcamp with approx. 100 young people from Ghana; Building site kindergarten
• Autumn 1997: Kindergarten is finished
• Spring 1998: Building school block 1
• Summer 1998: Workcamp with approx. 100 young people, building school block 1
• Autumn 1998: Completion school block 1 (six classrooms, office, stockroom); Class 4 begins; Negotiations and later assumption Methodist Church
• Summer 1999: Workcamp with Ghanaian young people, 6 participants of the CRAN friend circle; Foundations for school block 2
• September 1999: Class 5 begins
• At the end of of 1999: 102 children in the kindergarten, 181 pupils in the school
• Summer 2000: Workcamp with Ghanaian young people; Foundation walls for school block 2
• Autumn 2000: Water problem is to be solved by Polytank system; startup financing by Village bank
• Spring 2001: Structure of a school library
• Summer 2001: Block 2 of the school is posed.
• September 2001: Class 7 begins in the new block.
• September 2002: also class 8 runs now
• April 2005: First teachers bungalow completed
• February 2007: Kindergarten got new furniture

Duakor

• 1995 establishment of church, church grows
• August 1996: Workshop in soap cooking (also for participants from Abakam and Bantuma)
• 1997: Planning of a training centre for women
• Summer 1999: Training center finished; first class begins with instruction in sewing, batiking, hair dressing (26 trainees)
• Autumn 2000: a second class begins with instruction
• July 2001: In Cape Coast opens a CRAN Shop. The sales of products of Duakor will support the training center.
• In the middle of 2002: A Hostel for the accommodation of young women from outward
• September 2005: Official celebration: The church is now 10 yeas old.

Sanka

• Spring 1996: 30 acres country leave; Tree plantings in co-operation with CEWERFIA
• In the middle of 1996: Support/Upgrading of the village kindergarten
• 1997: 2 kindergarten groups; Basic school building provided by European Union; the farm grows
• Spring 1997: not lasting attempt of an establishment of church by Assemblies of God
• At the end of of 1999: 20 acres manages, far plans for cashew planting
• July 2000: first wood harvest
• Spring 2001: Structure of a school library
• Summer 2001: Sanka got a water line connection
• Autumn 2001: The primary school was taken over by the state, it runs already four classes

CESS

• 1995: CESS program begins (pupils from Abakam)
• 1997: 13 sponsorships
• 1999: 50 sponsorships (pupils from all project places)
• 2001: about 100 sponsorships (pupils from all project places)

Microcredit

• 1995: Test run for private small loans
• April 1998: Fundamentally revised: Field Officers care for clients in the villages; Combination of saving and credit; 300 customers in the villages
• Autumn 1999: Acute financial requirement is covered by private loans by friend circle members; 350 customers
• April 2000: George and Doris visit a similarly working organization in Mali, promoted by DWHH
• July 2000: CORDAID invests program in Microcredit
• September 2000: Start of 3 Village bank (Elmina, Cape Coast - Siwudu, Shama Kedzi)
• Autumn 2001: A further Village bank takes up the work to Abura
• May 2002: Beginning of a Microcredit of project (Economic Social relief of programs) in the Western region (Wassa west, Ahanta west, Sefwi Wiaso, Wassa Amenfi, Juabeso Bia) on behalf of the Ghanaian government.
• January 2003: The ESRP is classified as successful. The State of Ghana assigns other districts to CRAN, somewhat more near in the Western region.
• 2005: Another microbank opened in the Volta Region at Kpando
• 2006: New software "Loan Performer" introduced
• Juli 2006: CRAN has been selected by the Ghana Microfinance Institutions Network (GHAMFIN) as one of four financial NGOs for support and exposure to the global market place. In addition CRAN was visited by an official of the Grameen Foundation.