Article #10 in the YCC Kids Club Ghana Student Life Stories Project Re-Entering School After Three Years At Home By Lawani Lucy, Age 13
After a long period of living in my precious home feeling very lonely, my parents decided that I should continue my primary education.
From the age of seven to the age of ten, I could not attend school because I was sick in my leg and could not walk. [...Read More!]
After spending time in about fifteen different schools here in my first two months in Ghana, I now present you with…Fun Facts about Ghana’s Educational System!
1.) Because of the extremely limited supply of computers for schools (and the extreeeeemely limited supply of internet access), computers are frequently moved from place to place to ensure fair distribution and safe storage.
And how do things get moved in Ghana? On a head-top, [...Read More!]
Article #9 in the YCC Kids Club Ghana Student Life Stories Project When I Was Caned at School By Edor Easteria, Age 14
I felt the lashes of the cane at my back.
I was fourteen years old, in grade eight. I was in the classroom making noise with my friends during a time of discussion. We were debating about the issue of girls’ and boys’ education: which is more important?
It was interesting because [...Read More!]
Article #8 in the YCC Kids Club Ghana Student Life Stories Project My First Day at YCC By Edinam Tamkloe, Age 13
My life is full of stories, but I’ve got to say only one for now. So I choose to talk about my first day at Youth Creating Change, because YCC has changed my life.
My first day at YCC, I was so shy! Everything felt like a mystery to me.
Article #7 in the YCC Kids Club Ghana Student Life Stories Project My First Day at Covenant Preparatory School By Agbi Pamela, Age 14
“That school is full of witches and wizards!” was what people said about Covenant Preparatory School. “Don’t go!”
But I decided to enroll anyway. My mother had explained well how switching to Covenant would enhance my education.
In Ghana there are two main types of schools: public, government-run schools [...Read More!]
As the half-broken taxi thumped into another rocky crater on the endless dirt road, I gasped to Collins, “You seriously bicycle forty-five minutes down this to work each morning?”
My friend chuckled and nodded.
After weeks of planning, I was finally going to see the remote school where my Ghanaian YCC colleague had been posted since September!
At four-thirty am, we hopped the first tro tro the two hours from Sogakope to Accra, then [...Read More!]
Article #5 in the YCC Kids Club Ghana Student Life Stories Project A Trip to Kumasi Zoo By Dedi Elikem (aka: “Endless” Elikem), Age 12
I was scared when I saw the tiger opening its mouth. It looked like an old yelling monkey and it was one and a half meters long. All my friends were afraid.
Some people outside of Africa think that here in Ghana, we walk with wild [...Read More!]
Article #4 in the YCC Kids Club Ghana Student Life Stories Project My First Day Visiting Accra Airport By Shine Doe, Age 13
That day was the first day I had ever seen a traffic light. I watched, amazed, as it showed direction to the many cars by its changing colors.
I was about ten years old, on an educational excursion to Accra Airport with my classmates and teachers. There are [...Read More!]
Article #1 in the YCC Kids Club Ghana Student Life Stories Project A Visit To Akosombo Hydroelectric Dam By Reuben Ganoo, Age 15
Suddenly the bus was tilting on a curve and it nearly collided into a [...Read More!]
At last, after a month of exciting classes and passionate writing, it is time to start sharing our Ghana student life story projects with you!
For teachers who are interested in this unit plan themselves, or for those who are just curious about how these upcoming student articles were created, here is the…
Unit Plan for Student Life Story Writing Project:
Note: Each of these steps takes a different amount of time depending [...Read More!]