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| A Renovated school building |
Projects Abroad has painted five Nursery schools including orphanages in the Central Region within January to July this year, donated 400 exercise books and provided 31 school uniforms.
The renovation included some repairs of the severe cracks on the wall, replacing of damaged doors and windows and the entire building, which had been tasty for paints for over ten years, rejoiced when they finally were painted. This along with teaching and constant care has undoubtedly helped the schoolchildren in the Central Region. The Central Regional coordinator of Projects Abroad Grant Appiah revealed that one hundred and fifty volunteers had visited the region to provide services ranging from teaching to providing health care to the residents. He said the region has become a very popular destination for volunteer placements. He noted that volunteers have been encouraged to organise fundraising before they come to Ghana in order to assist some of the deprived communities or orphanages.
He added that Projects Abroad has been running in Cape Coast for 12 years and has been extremely successful. Projects Abroad in the Central Region runs several projects. These include Medical, Care, teaching, coaching and journalism placements.
In a related development, a volunteer Lindsey Crowle had donated five computers to St Michaels Catholic School to support in the teaching of computing courses at the basic level.
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| The donation of Computers |
“Everyone in Cape Coast is very friendly and you can tell they really appreciate the help”.
Margaret Hayfron, Headmistress at St Michael's Catholic, says the donation from Lindsey will have a great impact on the children’s future.
“The computers will help teach ICT to the children. They can write the computing examination next year in the BECE and this will help them to get jobs in the future… I can’t thank her enough”.
Mrs Hayfron will make a request to the MP for electricity to their school building. She says the lack of electricity at schools in Cape Coast is very inconvenient for the children.
“To access these computers the children will have to walk 400 kiliometers to town. If we had electricity, we could use them without walking “she said.
St Michael students Agnes Appiah and Esther Monkah were delighted to be given the opportunity to improve their ICT skills.
“It will help me learn and I can use the Internet,” Ms Monkah said.
These computers will hopefully help improve their skills in programs such as Microsoft Word and Excel, which they claim to know little about.
This month’s high school students have come from all over the globe. Their work here has provided St Michael's with a freshly painted building, arts and craft supplies and plenty of love and care. Volunteer Sarah Pybus says witnessing poverty back in her home country Scotland has motivated her to volunteer in Africa.
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| Memorable picture |
“As a child I have always lived in quite poor areas so it would be sad to think I can’t help people out”.
Meghan Ingerick, 21 from The United States says working at the hospital has been challenging but a great experience.
“It is difficult to adjust to the difference in culture but I have gained many skills from my placement,” she said.
The care projects at orphanages around Cape Coast have provided both the volunteer and children with opportunities to learn and grow. Lenneke Sipkes, a student from the Netherlands, has donated several items to the New Life orphanage since her arrival last month. She says the smile on the children’s faces will be forever in her memory.
“You really learn to be flexible and creative because you experience situations that are different from home,” she said.
The money raised by Lindsey and other two-week volunteers will also provide bedding supplies to orphanages next week. Although volunteers come and go in a flash it seems the exchange between them and the Cape Coast community will never be forgotten.
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