This is a rural community with 8 separate schools. In conjunction with a local charity supporting orphans of HIV/AIDS victims and destitute children, the community embarked on the construction of a children’s library. GSA voted £750 to this project in 2013-14.
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Mother of Mercy Primary School, UER
The school applied for funds to repair the roof of a classroom block, and paint walls. Year 9 pupils of Barnard Castle School, County Durham (independent, co-educational and boarding) were sponsored to learn the names of countries in Africa and donated £300 to GSA, and GSA added £200. Thank you so much, Barnard Castle School! GSA Hon Sec Jo Hallett was able to visit Mother of Mercy School recently (as an active member of the Let’s Read programme) and she reports that the school has been fully repainted and an outbuilding roof replaced. Jo was presented with a live guinea fowl by the delighted teachers!
Firm Foundation, Bolgatanga
This school has changed its name to PLATO ACADEMY, BOLGATANGA.
The school was founded in 2010 and is personally known to GSA supporter Sylvia Lynn-Meaden. Sylvia and GSA combined to send £1400 to the school for the construction of a new classroom block. Dorothy Abaah sent this report and pictures: ” I write to inform you of the progress made in the building of the classroom block. — The contractor advised that once the building is a store-building, it was technically unwise to put up the rooms piece by piece. I therefore used the money to buy materials which were used to cast 32 pillars. What is left is the casting of the lintel which materials are available. Our problems are the roofing of the building and the partitioning of the classrooms. However, I was able to construct a decent room to accommodate class 6 pupils. The work is not progressing fast because the contractor is caught up with Government contracts far away from Bolgatanga. Thank you. “ 
Elikem Welfare Association
£250 was sent for books and other learning materials. EWA was founded as a voluntary youth and cultural group in Accra in 1998 for young people, some of whom had been displaced by the building of the Volta dam in the 1960s. EWA now runs a successful farmers’ cooperative based in Bodumase, near Kumasi.
Dazongo Primary School, UER
The school, in a very remote area near to the Burkina Faso border, applied for, and was granted, £500 to obtain desks for an empty classroom. We have heard that the desks are now in use and the children delighted to be more comfortable at last!
Ashanti Development
This charity is working with isolated villages in the Ashanti region, providing support. They asked Dave Banks, a retired teacher-trainer, to develop a method, replicable at low cost, to improve the quality of teaching in local schools. Dave produced and piloted a written programme which is proving remarkably effective. GSA supported the project with a grant of £750 towards training packs and other workshop expenses.
Ghana School Aid 