Hey y’all. It’s been awhile, I’ve been keeping busy! I’ve unofficially finished my time with the GEU but we do have more work to do together. The website design is done and now I await feedback on content. I’ve made arrangements to go back on Wednesday to speak to Divine directly, so hopefully we can get most of it done.
Today Patience took me to Fotobi to visit FAWE Ghana (Forum for African Women Educationalists), the second organization I’m partnering with. They also need help with their website, which currently exists but needs to be updated. I got a tour around the headquarters, which includes their very own radio station!
FAWE Ghana
FAWE DJ spinning some Afro beats
They play music as well as educational programs that have a focus on gender issues. What an amazing idea! I promised them I would try and find out how to broadcast their station on the internet once I’m back home. That’s gotta be easy, and free, right?
FAWE FM's broadcast tower
let's hear it for the girls!
Picco and I discussing website stuff
Patience and I then traveled up the road a bit to visit one of the schools in the area, Nsaba Diaspora Community Senior High School. From the FAWE Ghana website:
FAWE founded this school in response to a request from the local community. Most local girls do not attend senior high school, instead dropping out to work on pineapple plantations. This often leads to a lifestyle that exposes them to sexual abuse and teenage pregnancy. FAWE Ghana founded Nsaba Diaspora Community Senior High School (NDCSHS) in an attempt to remedy this problem.
The main mission of the school is to rescue girls from environments that offer few prospects of success, and to enable junior high school leavers in the Nsaba Educational Circuit and other deprived communities in Ghana to access secondary education. The school offers opportunity to local girls who would otherwise not receive secondary education. FAWE Ghana also uses its country-wide network of Focal Point Contact Persons to identify girls living in high-risk and educationally deprived environments throughout the country and enroll them in the school. Room and board at the school is provided for these girls, free of charge whenever possible.
students of Nsaba Diaspora
Turns out another Canadian WUSC volunteer is stationed here for a year, acting as a guidance counselor for the girls. She also lives in the dorms on the school grounds. She wasn’t around to chat with though, hopefully I will get to meet her this week sometime. In the meantime, I have newsletters, reports and funding proposals to read in order to prepare some feedback on website updates.
