• To instill Christian principles through Child evangelism.
• To provide an informal learning environment for children in the form of well stocked libraries and playgrounds
• Teach children new hobbies and other creative activities; recreation in the form of fun games, excursions and competitions
• To improve literacy through drama, reading and poetry
• To help sick, disabled, needy, underprivileged and orphaned children
• To provide a forum for social interaction between children of various ages and classes

CHEERS was founded on 3^rd January 1999, in Ghana, West Africa. The founder, a young Ghanaian Architect, who had been working with children in villages in Kumasi during her post graduate education, found the need to improve the lot of children in these poor circumstances. She shared her ideas with other young professional colleagues, and this led to the formation of the CHEERS Children’s Club, with its main mission being child evangelism and improving the lot of underprivileged children in society.

The club started with two children at the first meeting. This number quickly increased to thirty and within three months there were an average of seventy children participating in the weekly club meetings. At these meetings children were taught Bible lessons, given moral education, taught personal hygiene, arts and crafts, drama and singing and also participated in fun games. It was during these meetings that the management found the need to establish an informal system to improve the reading and writing skills of these children as most of them could not communicate in English. The Library was therefore introduced, with one bookshelf of 55 books, in the home of the founder’s parents at Madina, a suburb of Accra, the capital of Ghana.

The club was officially registered as a non-governmental organization in 2001. The library was relocated to its new rented premises, constructed from two roofed and refurbished ship’s containers.  The Library operated daily from Monday to Friday with a daily average attendance of 15. In 2006, the Container Library was relocated to a new rented premise, after the first rented lot was sold. Free computer lessons were introduced and this generated a lot of interest in the children and increased daily attendance to 64.

On 5^th June 2017, a new permanent Library Building was finally opened in the same premises where it all began; – the home of the founder’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jackson, the land having been donated by them. On the 6^thof June 2011, a second library was opened at Korle-bu and has since been serving the community of the Korle-bu Teaching Hospital and its environs. It is very well patronized.