In just a few hours I will leave for Ghana, excitedly awaiting a 5 week adventure as Hope for Ghana juggles building its fourth school, building a new library and computer lab, providing several more villages with clean water, providing vocational apprenticeships for young men and women, and setting our sites on future projects, all while finding time to travel, enjoy great food and cherish the company of amazing friends.
We received a plea from the Tafi-Mador community last year to build a library and computer lab in the village’s elementary/junior high school. We were touched by the school’s hunger for education and computer literacy, so we will convert a classroom into a beautiful educational center with wall to wall books and brand new computers filled with educational software for all ages, thanks in large part to the immense benevolence of the Jones family in Pittsburgh.
Hope for Ghana is thrilled to continue work on our fourth school in the village of Klokpe where children are presently learning under deplorable conditions, some of the kids learning under a tree and under a shed. In just a matter of days a beautiful roof will cover our 12 classrooms that will serve kindergarteners through 9th graders. The school will feature solar power, a library and computer lab, a water borehole with a reverse osmosis purification machine thanks to the wonderful generosity of Brother’s Brother Foundation, boys and girls bathroom facilities, and much more.
It’s an incredibly exciting time for Hope for Ghana as we watch the impact that hope and opportunity bring to thousands of Ghanaians. I am so grateful to every one of you who has been part of this journey. Thanks to you our mission is reaching new heights, forever transforming lives in the most vulnerable communities. You allow us to dream big! Ghana, I am on my way!
