Adesua: Education For life
Within the small community of Frankadua in Ghana, I founded a project called Adesua in early 2013 and fell in love with the people of this magnificent place!
Since then we have managed to achieve the following on the project:
-Lead a group of ten volunteers to the project in December 2013
-Built and stocked a library full of books and resources for the school. Shipment of new books to go annually to the library has been arranged, along with a veggie garden, in which the students grow the vegetables and sell them at the local Wednesday market to sustain the library.
-Created an online mentoring program in which each teacher from the school logs on twice a week to complete teacher education training through a mentoring program
-Re-Designed the school rules, procedures, budget and timetable in collaboration with the newly established school board, teachers, students and parents.
The results of the project have been great and we continue to improve these. To name a few:
-The schools attendance rate has increased by 30% in the past twelve months
-The students were reading no books six months ago and now are averaging 1.5 books a week per student being read.
-One teacher has now graduated high school, whilst the other three have not completed year 10. All four are part taking in our online training and mentoring program by correspondence and are doing extremely well.
-Reduction of the cane as a source of punishment for not academically achieving has reduced by 64% in the past 12 months.
Since then we have managed to achieve the following on the project:
-Lead a group of ten volunteers to the project in December 2013
-Built and stocked a library full of books and resources for the school. Shipment of new books to go annually to the library has been arranged, along with a veggie garden, in which the students grow the vegetables and sell them at the local Wednesday market to sustain the library.
-Created an online mentoring program in which each teacher from the school logs on twice a week to complete teacher education training through a mentoring program
-Re-Designed the school rules, procedures, budget and timetable in collaboration with the newly established school board, teachers, students and parents.
The results of the project have been great and we continue to improve these. To name a few:
-The schools attendance rate has increased by 30% in the past twelve months
-The students were reading no books six months ago and now are averaging 1.5 books a week per student being read.
-One teacher has now graduated high school, whilst the other three have not completed year 10. All four are part taking in our online training and mentoring program by correspondence and are doing extremely well.
-Reduction of the cane as a source of punishment for not academically achieving has reduced by 64% in the past 12 months.