Youth on a Learning Tour of Ghana

Leaving in the dark

If you’re a North American, it probably wasn’t until your very late teens that you truly loved the roadtrip. With visions of a high tech Kerouac, you would spend more time excitedly making the ultimate Roadtrip Mixtape than packing...(for you young ones, that’s like an iPod playlist)…But if you’re eleven, and your family decides they’re spending two and a half weeks of precious summertime traveling in fumes of gas, McDonalds, and seat sweat to British Columbia, it’s not so awesome. 

So, on Friday, February 24’th, when GHEI YEP students were assembling for the Youth Learning Tour of this year, a daylong roadtrip across Ghana to see the Akosombo Hydro-Electric Dam, I was a little shocked to see their enthusiasm. Nothing much registered though because I was numbed by the outrageous hour we were meeting.  The night was dark and cool; a serious rainstorm had beat down Humjibre the night before.  Power was out and the moon and stars were blanketed out by thick, lingering clouds.  

Humjibre Athletics and Football Gala 2012

By Saga.  All photos by Saga.

A player on Muoho Primary Football team and Anglican Supporters behind him

The Humjibre schools athletics and football Gala competition was held on 20^th – 24^th February 2012 and consisted of 4 primary schools and 3 JHS. Many peoples were there and excited about this event.  The best students in athletics and football school winners will go to Bekwai to also meet the best students in athletics and football from other schools. 

The schools are as follows:  Anglican primary school, Christ Redeemer preparatory school, Muoho primary school, D/C primary school, Anglican Junior High School, Muoho Junior High School, Christ Redeemer preparatory Junior High School.

Here are the results from the Athletics:

Careers! Opportunities! Lectures! 2012!

This past Friday, GHEI staff and volunteers presented the annual Career Opportunity Lecture Series, a chance for students in their second year of Junior High School (JHS) to get a look at what sort of careers are out there, how you can achieve it, and how to properly register for Senior High School (SHS). 

I was a bit surprised when we started this event on time, but not a bit surprised when I heard us starting this event as we do all, with pulse-pounding dance music, even at 10 am on a weekday.  The JHS students lining up to register for the event didn't seem to notice.  Were they too cool too dance?  The sullenness of adolescence is a universal truth… 

When all 86 students from the schools in Humjibre and Muoho had taken the bright, plastic chairs, Happy began explaining what the purpose of the day was, and the minute details of the schedule. Happy had assured me the day before, there would be no delays! He even pounded his fist into his hand, like he was striking a gong...it scared me a little.

We're Still Accepting Applications for Serve and Learn 2012!!

...but hurry! Spots are filling fast!

You can still apply to spend meaningful moments with young women from Humjibre, learning about their lives and sharing your own, while encouraging them to achieve success these girls never thought possible but is so clearly in their grasp, in the Girls Empowerment session.

You can still apply to get a taste of the enthusiasm and joy that young students in Humjibre take in reading and being read to, while supporting the education system in Ghana by lending your own enthusiasm to literacy themed lessons in all local public schools, in the Read and Play session.  

You can still apply to catch a glimpse of what team work and community building can mean to young people here and help organize one of the most highly anticipated sporting events of the year in Humjibre, in the Kickin it in Ghana session.

You can still apply to take part in our effective malaria prevention program that protects entire villages from Malaria through bed nets and education, in the Malaria Prevention session.  

But in all these sessions you get a chance to live life in rural Ghana, and work with people from Humjibre, for Humjibre.

If this and the chance to tour some of Ghana's most culturally significant spots interests you, don't think too long on it!  Apply now!

Learn more about Summer Serve and Learn

Session Descriptions / FAQ / Application 

Email Application to Tabatha at apply@ghei.org

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