Student Learning Tour visits Cape Coast

"What do you call this water?" Sophia, a junior high student asked, pointing at the waves pounding the castle walls below. Like most of GHEI's students in the Youth Education Program, Sophia had never seen the ocean. On the balcony of Cape Coast Castle overlooking the Gulf of Guinea, 43 junior high students and 8 teachers stood wide-eyed and breathless at the site. It was the culmination of the day's excursion, which featured many firsts for both staff and students.

Every year, GHEI hosts a free excursion to expose students to the scenic and historical sites Ghana has to offer, sites they otherwise would never experience. This was the first year GHEI took students to Cape Coast, where they were treated to a canopy walk through the rainforest at Kakum National Park, a computer class at the prestigious Cape Coast University, a guided tour of the infamous Cape Coast slave castle, and their very first dip in the ocean's saltwater waves.

Check out the slideshow (Photos courtesy of Education Program Coordinator, Jennifer Artibello) for highlights of this memorable day. For more information on GHEI's Youth Education Program, click here.






--Natalie Rich, Communications Director

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