And we are pleased to give each of the four senior high graduates the “Leif Pederson Graduation Award” in the amount of $300 US --- about 3-4 months income for basic work in Axim, Ghana.
We lost Leif, one of Ghana Together’s founding members, in 2010, but the children remember “Uncle Leif”, and his computers and just his fun ways with them, and we know he would be so very proud of them.
We got to know all six because they spent their early years living in the Western Heritage Children’s Home. Western Heritage Home, our associate NGO in Ghana, and we have supported these young men and women in one way or another since 2007, so yes, we are proud of them!
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| Western Heritage Home Children in 2007. Our newest graduates are somewhere in this pic! |
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Dorothy has graduated with an Nursing Associate degree from the Asante Nursing School. She will be placed by the Ghanaian Government in a locale needing medical staff in the near future. Meanwhile, she is supporting herself by working with the cleaning staff at the Lou Moon Resort not far from Axim.
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| Peter graduated from Nsein Senior High School. He took all the "extra" classes in science and math, and dreams of becoming a computer engineer. His WASSCE test scores (like our SAT) will be available in September. Meanwhile, he is considering offers for two teacher positions (math and science skills are scarce and so even at this stage he can help younger students) and/or a position in a bank until his future educational plans materialize. |
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| Ernestina (left) and Gifty have graduated from Axim Girls Senior High School. Both have already had some experience in market selling, and plan to use their Graduation Awards to start their own businesses |
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| Kingsley has graduated from the Axim Community Development Vocational and Technical Institute. He has specialized in Welding and Fabrication. He has done some apprentice work, and his training at CDVTI included business and computer skills, English, and entrepreneurship as well as training in his technical specialty. He is looking for a job! |
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| Godwin has graduated from Manye Junior High School. He will next attend Kikkam Technical Institute, which offers a wide range of vocational/technical classes for further training. |
We (and they) have so many to thank!
-To Sue, who generously provided the funds
for the awards
-Mindy and family who supported Ernestina all through senior high
-Gary and the Mount Vernon, WA Kiwanis who supported
Peter for many years, and also the Bentil family in Axim who gave him a home and some business
experience during his vacations
-Bonnie who supported Dorothy through nurses training
-James and Beatrice Kainyiah who took Godwin into their
own family home along with their own children, for his entire primary school years,
until he became a Junior High Boarding Student at Manye Academy (common in
Axim)
-Madame Felicia Attah, teacher and now Headmistress of
Manye Academy who took a special interest in these children, and also Madame
Safiatu Seidu, Director of the Community Development Vocational/Technical
Institute, and Madame Theodora Appiah, Principal of Axim Girls Senior High School,
and the teachers and staff of each of the schools
-And all of you wonderful “investors” who enabled us to
support these children for their entire schooling, in one way or another.
We give these new graduates our congratulations, and our
confidence in them, and our best wishes as they launch their adult lives!
AND, we're not done yet!! Come September and start of the 2018-2019 school term, we hope to support 70 students in one way or another. (Did we mention how much fun this is?) Stay tuned!
Thank you...thank you...
Ghana Together
http://ghanatogether.org
info@ghanatogether.org
Ghana Together
http://ghanatogether.org
info@ghanatogether.org
