The Otwetiri Project (TOP)

Improving the educational environment for rural children in poor and underdeveloped nations

The Otwetiri School students in Ghana, West Africa, fetching water from the stream for use in their school (Photo January 2023)

Presently supporting educational environments in rural communities in Ghana & Togo

The benevolent TOP team and supporters in Davis, California

Building School Houses and Education Environments

Our immediate goals are to raise funds to build a desperately needed primary school house in Otwetiri, Ghana and to establish and support literacy programs in the village.

Emblem of the Otwetiri Project Organization (TOP), Motto: “Care for your neighbor”

Supporting Sports Programs

We also aims to provide educational incentives through sports and to foster an extended family relationship between Davis and these rural West African communities.

Poor learning and teaching environments at Otwetiri School in Ghana, West Africa

Providing Community Support Services

The Davis community has been mostly active in supporting The Otwetiri Project. Most interest has been generated solely through public speaking, community engagements and press.

We need your support, too!

Tometi’s or Tim’s link to the Davis soccer community, the Davis Legacy Soccer Club (DLSC), the Davis Senior High School (DS), and the Davis Joint Unified School District (DJUSD), as a youth coach and an assistant head coach of the DHS JV Girls soccer team has truly advanced the project's reach and sport network. Friends from the city's greater community have become instrumental in evolving the project into a non-profit organization, which was needed to accelerate the project’s purpose. The efforts of these benevolent people culminated into all TOP successes.

In 2014, Tometi organized a soccer tournament called the Davis California Challenge Cup (D3C), which was played among village schools in and around the village of Otwetiri, Ghana. This tournament helped to establish the relationship between the City of Davis, California, and these rural villages. The tournament also promoted teamwork and life lessons and brings joy to the children and spectators. This D3C soccer has become an annual village schools’ tournament in the region. Feel free to contribute. We need your help

Also, an Under 12 Girls soccer team that Tometi coached held school supply fundraisers and birthday parties, at which small donations to the Otwetiri project were given instead of presents. Emerson Junior high students conducted a book drive to collect hundreds of books for the children in Otwetiri. These books were shipped to Ghana with funds provided by the Davis Rotary Club. The city of Davis community is the main support of these projects.

Soccer team jerseys and athletic equipment have also been sourced by contributors in Davis, and while some of these items have made their way to Ghana and Togo, we continue to collect more that cannot be shipped until more funding becomes available.