Tucked away in the green mountains that compose the Togo-Ghana border, Likpe Bakua is like many Ghanaian villages: very communal, welcoming, and soccer crazed. However, like many small Ghanaian villages, one of the most serious problems they face is lack of access to decent education. Public schools are grossly inadequate and the one private school ...
Each year Painting Possibilities, the summer volunteer teaching trip to the Bishop Forson School, develops into something new to meet the needs of the school. At the end of our 2009 trip, teachers made one recommendation clear: they wanted Painting Possibilities to last two weeks, not one. But when it came time to plan this ...
By Beth Berman I am back in Ghana at the Bishop Forson School Complex for my second year in a row. Last year I was focused on the work I had to do and to just getting a lay of the land, so to speak. Little by little over the 10 days in Kpando, I ...
By Kelsey Wolf The best part about working with the kids here is making them smile. For the past five weeks I’ve been working with four kids from stage three who were very far behind on reading. We started out with the alphabet. The first two weeks went very slowly and I was easily frustrated. ...
by Julie Boyer Today we saw first hand the Airfield school. We rolled to a stop at the side of the road, and peered out the window to see the now empty space beneath the meager thatch and aluminum covered buildings- more like tents to us- that the children were schooled in last year. last ...
