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Week 9 Blog Post by Saani & John


On Monday we had our meeting discussing our previous achievements and the aims of the week. We agreed on the next event to be a “Career Guidance” day.John as part of the infrastructure team Visited Falahiya Islamic School to measure their class rooms to research into a painting project.

On Tuesday John and Senam had their learning day presentation (Active Citizenship Day) on the topic of UN development through Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It was a Success as volunteers asked many questions and seemed to remember the goals and opened to a long discussion about the goals particularly their impacts in Ghana.

We went to St Nicolas for the extension of core program we took the opportunity to go to Antem Basic School and St Vincent College in efforts to try find a suitable school to hold our next event. Our visit to St Vincent’s College was a success as they agreed to let us hold our event in their classroom

Wednesday we went to St Monica’s for the Extension of core program and it was a success as there was a large number attending. Back in the office from St Monica’s we discussed the program line up for your event for the following week. (Ashley, John, Joe,) Started work on the Sachet net tutorial Video. We then did the Monthly Report involving the whole team and highlighting on our achievements, struggles and Developments.

Extension of core Program at St. Monica's Girls School

Extension of core Program at St. Monica’s Girls School

Thursday we had our Core program training at the center after which we went back to the office for Bayala and Joe’s Culture day presentation. It was very interesting and informative and volunteers had many questions and were enthused to hear about the areas. The Sachet net tutorial video was completed and shown to the team. The Children started writing their first term exams with most of questions being set by the volunteers.

Joe Richards taking the team to Oxford on his Culture Day Presentations

Joe Richards taking the team to Oxford on his Culture Day Presentations

Bayala Mike educating the team about his culture "OBUASI"

Bayala Mike educating the team about his culture “OBUASI”

On Friday we had a fun pack filled morning Visiting 3 schools to do the extension of core program. We visited Aboom Zion first and we met by many children. It was a very successful session as the kids were very egger and excited and understood the lessons being taught. We then moved on to St. Monica’s School finally ended our day session of the extension of the core program at Kwegery Aggrey Memorial school.