Ghana School Aid

Some GSA-supported projects

Penny Sewell — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:11:39 +0000

This is a non-exhaustive list of projects GSA has supported in recent years. Providing information about them is work in progress!

Aboabo Primary School; Abonse Presbyterian Basic School; Aburaso Methodist Primary School, Kumasi; Accra Girls’ Senior High School; Anglican Diocese of Tamale; Aseseeso School, Akwapim; Balogu Primary School, Yendi; Bechem School for the Deaf; Bethel-Awudome Cambridge Primary School; Buipe; Cape Coast University for Alan Mayhew Nursery; Catholic Archdiocese of Kumasi; Child to Child Trust; Daffor-Awudome Joe Bedu Primary School; Fishing Villages Project; FOYS Project (Morel Trust); Gblede L.A. Junior Secondary School; Hia Library Project (via Ghana Nurses’ Association); Kasoa British Airways School; Krachi School Otaakrom (OneChild); Let’s Read Project (Northern Region) Mo-Dega Project; Mount Mary School nursery; Nawuni R.C. Primary School; Nkowfoa School; Nuru Islam Primary School, Yendi; Okuapemman School, Akropong; Pampawie link with Polseworth School; Powerstock/Gbullung Community Partnership; Sandema Educational Resource Centre; Sawla Vocational School; Sekoti & Nyogbare Primary School Link Community Development; Talent Aid; The Lord is my Shepherd Educational Centre; Tsibu-Awudome Library; Wamfie Library Project; Wulugu Project; Yendi Girls’ Junior High School; Zagyuri Anglican Primary School.

Nawuni R.C. Primary School

Penny Sewell — Fri, 25 May 2012 13:01:34 +0000

A grant from GSA enabled the purchase and installation of several computers. These have made a huge difference to the school, and should help communication between Nawuni and its English Link Partner, Stutton Primary School. The picture shows instructors and staff at Nawuni.

Yendi Girls’ Junior High School

Penny Sewell — Fri, 25 May 2012 12:02:35 +0000

GSA provided a grant for an electrification project. Alhassan Salifu Baako, GSA’s project Coordinator in the North organised a meeting at the school to ensure that the project would be carried out efficiently. All the classrooms, the staff common room, the headteacher’s office and the outside walls were connected with electricity. The school has a great potential to grow. the Municipal Assembly has added a new block to the school which is still under construction. Students from Yendi Girls’ and other schools in the neighbourhood can now work in the evenings. Teaching and learning of ICT and use of audio visual teaching materials are also possible. The school’s PTA paid for a watchman in order to maintain security. Baako visited Yendi Girls’ JHS on 20th March 2012 to see the final work of their project. “Quality work was done from what I saw. I was warmly received by the entire school. I was given copies of the receipts and the headteacher’s letter of appreciation.”

Tsibu Library

Ghana School Aid — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:28:05 +0000

The library has been built from scratch on the initiative of a UK-based Ghanaian from the village of Tsibu-Awudome. It is a solid building with good security and is staffed on a regular basis. It serves the villages of Bethel, Daffor and Tsibu. It has a fair collection of books and newspapers, but is always grateful for more books suitable for both schoolchildren and adults. GSA has contributed to the purchase, in Ghana, of computers which are now installed.

Signed: Penny Sewell

Joe Bedu L.A. Primary School

Ghana School Aid — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:11:58 +0000

Joe Bedu hailed from Daffor-Awudome in the Volta Region, and when he sadly died in 2004, the villagers named their Primary School after him. Joe’s widow, Penny Sewell, plus a network of friends, have supported the school ever since. Ghana School Aid has been of immense assistance, giving funding to help with: building a six-cubicle pit lavatory (Kumasi Ventilated Improved Pits); re-establishing electric cables (stolen years ago), thus enabling the school to be lit up again; installing pipes bringing water to four standpipes on the school compound; providing funds for classroom conversion and for making burglar-proof a computer laboratory; supporting the J. Bedu Day-care Centre for toddlers.. The funding received was added to what Penny had raised separately, hence the impressive list of projects. The school roll has increased hugely in recent years, and the school is unrecognisable compared to what it was in 2004 – it is now a force to be reckoned with. The picture shows some members of the committee which adminsters GSA and J. Bedu funds.

Signed: Penny Sewell

The Havilah Academy Library project 2001/ Central Region

Ghana School Aid — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:47:46 +0000

Getting on with the main building of the Nanakwa Budu III Library.

Mount Mary School at Ofankor/ Greater Accra 2001

Ghana School Aid — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:46:13 +0000

Building works for a new classrooms and a water tank.

Congratulations! Colin MacBean in the Great Scottish Run 10K

Ghana School Aid — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:40:18 +0000

Congratulations to Colin for completing the Great Scottish Run 10K and raising £964 for Ghana School Aid.

Photos here. JustGiving page here.

Mrs. Pamela Lewis

Ghana School Aid — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:39:47 +0000

Ghana School Aid is very sad to announce the death of one of its most lively and valued founder members. Mrs. Pamela Lewis “just slipped away” on 18^th November 2011 after a short illness.

Eric and Auriol Earl have known Pam and family since 1956, in Accra; and Pam came on both Ghana Visits, 1990 and 1995. She worked closely for many years with all the other founder members of Ghana School Aid. GSA was founded in 1986, and Pam was its very efficient Hon Sec until she moved to Wales. It was Pam who started the AGMs, which were not provided for in the Trust Deed. She kept us on the straight and narrow, always mindful of GSA’s prime objectives. She will be very much missed by all who knew her.

Penny Sewell. 1.1.12