Ghana Trip
Before I get started on the information on our trip. I want to say a BIG thank you to everyone involved in the 2008 Predictions Call (Our Annual Fundraiser). Together we raised over $22, 000.00 in three short days. THANK YOU!
Now, on with our Ghana experience.
Our trip to Ghana was a very valuable experience. While we were their we got a chance to meet with our main contacts, the teachers and get to know the children and their families.
Our first five days was spent in Budumburam Refugee Camp. The Refugee Camp is home to over 45, 000 people who have fled from war. Our partner organization Children Better Way has a well established organization in the camp. You can check out their own web site at www.childrenbetterway.org They currently have two schools, a HIV program as well as a water sanitation program. The schools are well built and have a sufficient number of teachers. However, where they are desperately in need of assistance is nutrition for the children who attend the school. Many children who are attending the school come every day without eating. Many of the families find it hard to come up with the $5 tuition fee for the term, let along three meals a day for their child. As a result, Stu and I noted that this was an immediate concern.
Before leaving the camp, we put in place a Feeding Program for all children that attend Children Better Way schools. At the moment our current budget allows us to provide a nutritional breakfast for all students (400+) 3 days a week. We would like to see this at five days a week in the future.
Below your will find some pictures of the camp.
The School
Water is also a BIG problem on the camp. While the camp has a few wells. There are not enough for all the families that live in the camp. There are often large line ups to get water. You can see this in the pictures below.
Lots of the children enjoyed playing soccer with Stu.
Our second stop was Vakpo Orphange School. This school is located two hours north of Accra. We were met by a local teacher of the small school in Accra, from there she traveled with us to the small town.
Below you will find some pictures of the small school where we are sponsoring two teachers.
So glad you both got home safely (I was a little worried). You are doing an amazing job. Love you
hey guys!! your photos are great and it looks like the rest of your trip went really well! I got home on friday which is awesome, and have gone a little overboard on the take-away coffee! haha well i do have 7 months to catch up on…
anyway would love to hear how everythings going and your future plans. Im in the process of putting together a portfolio and meet with a couple of big commercial fashion stores. very exciting!! anyway, will keep you updated!!
love
jess
Hi, i am from mt.pleasant public school…
you came to our school yesterday on tuesday 22 i thought you had really kool pictures and that was really nice of the man to give you the braclets and for you too give him money for his family! ! ! …
luv:Cecilia Crighton , gr. 4 mount pleasant public school
Hi my name is Nikita i just wanted to say hi to every one just wanted to know a little more about you and your family.oh and by the way im from Mount Pleasant Public School. I liked the pictures
love-Nikita
Hi, Stu and Amy watch ya doing? Are you doing good? Cause I am doing good! Me , Katrina & Abbey think your website is really cool and we go to Mt.Pleasant school. We were wondering when you are puting on any videos?
Thanks Cailyx, Katrina & Abbey
hi i am from mount pleasant public school and i liked the braclets.cc and niki and katrina and cailyx are my best friends.
hi me and my friend harper are from branlyn community school. we would just like to say that what you do is great and you help many diserving kids.
Mrs.H is still colecting the money for you from everyone in the school. the last time that we counted we had 81.11! good luck!
wew can feed 553 kids! isnt that great. some one in our class named justin brought in a big container full of coins. it had 26.56 in it. thats like 1/4 of our total amount of money! hope it will help whe we dicide to give it to you!
Hey Stu and Amy.
i love your wed site and your presention was really good.
just to let you know im from BRANLYN.
so are you ever going to GHANA again because i was hoping you could get me a wrist band like yours!
anyways got to go bye.
love gurleen lall
hey stu and amy I love what you are doing for these kids it is so nice. anyways i am from branlyn in mrs. H’s class we are the class that wanted to help kids in ghana somemore. We were thinking of plans to raise more money and we have. Some of us have been doing chores around our houses. We have raised enough money so far to feed 535 kids in ghana and we are still working on it thankyou.
hi i am justin from branlyn school mrs H’s class. we have collected $85.11 and we calculated that we can feed 553 kids in gahana.
hi my name is Spencer Dunham and i go to Branlyn school i have brought in 1$ ever day for alll most a month i am in mis H’S class and are class has gathered 81$ now we can feed 553 kids in ugana. i am going to contine to bring 1$ in ever day to help the kids in ugana
by spencer dunham
Hi Stu and Amy i am from Branlyn Community School,i am raising money for Ghana.I apperciate all the things you do for Ghana and families in Ghana also,that you took your holiday to go to Ghana and give them the money im so glad we raisied so much,to give to Ghana im so glad we helped them out,and i hope we can help them out more.It makes me really sad when i hear that stuff about how other people are living and what there life is going like i hope we can make more families happier and there life go better i really like helping other people when i see what there living like.
i hope i can help them more
sgined Katelyn
this is really cool what u did to that boy to go to school. I hope he gets good grades soo he can continue to go to school. It was really cool when u came to my school(Branlyn Community) it was really inspiring and sweet
Alix
thank you for teacheing us about ugana
Hi!, we are from Branlyn school, the one that did the hat day! Hope you sponsor some more kids into school!
WHATS UP HOMIS FROM THE HOOD DO YOU DROP IT LIKE ITS GOOD IN THE HOOD
hey guys it is me again we are really happy you took our money to ghana. We really apreciate that.We are still looking forward to changing other kids lives. I really want to hear your next plan well seeya i am at school right no on the computer. bye bye
sincerly brieanna butler from grade 6
Its taylor i am from mrs.h class from branlyn school in brantford, just want to tell you that my class erned 81 dollars we feed over 500 kids just wanted to tell you that ok bye write back bye bye
Hi, my name is Ina and i`m from Mrs.H`s class, our class has raised $80.00 and we can feed over 500 kids. You`re work is really inspiring because it helps us understand how fortunate we our to be living in Canada. Thanks for coming to our school.
Well thanks for your time.
Bye
Hi Aimy and Stew. Are you going to Uganda in the march break? My class read a waterloss problem in Uganda story it was called ”Making Waves”. Our school has collected alot of money, we can feed alot of children that go to school $83.11 and that could feed 553.
hey it is brieanna again me and gurleen cant stop giving you emails she is sitting beside me right now we love what you are doing for thesekids. keep up the good work
sincerly brieanna butler and gurleen lall from grade six branlyn
hello i am at branlyn school. And we are raising
money and we are having a jersey day on thursday BY CANDACE
we love what you guys are doing when we grow up we want to be just like you to change lives and have a great time doing it thankyou.
sincerly gurleen and brieanna
hey its me gurleen again
so i would like to know if you are going to GHANA because i would like to give you some money to feed the kids in GHANA.
so sorry me and brie keep sending this stuff to you but we really like what your doing forthes kid that need help.
yours truly gurleen and brieanna
Hi Stu and Amy its me Cory I am sending $5.00 a month to the people in Ghana
Hi Stu and Amy, this is harper and kaitlin from branlyn school, Mrs. H’s class. Kaitlin and I would like to thank you for being such a great role models for us, and everyong at this school, and thank you for letting us be a part of your fundraising.
-Harper, and Kaitlin<3