Article #22 in the YCC Kids Club Ghana Student Life Stories Project The Deadly Car Accident That I Was Involved In By Dedi Elikem, Age 13
I was afraid when I saw the car coming towards us at top speed!
I was ten years old on that sunny Monday when I was involved in a car accident. My family and I were on our way home to Sogakope from Kumasi in [...Read More!]
Article #21 in the YCC Kids Club Ghana Student Life Stories Project How I Was Preparing for My Journey Before a Terrible Loss Occurred By Tamakloe Fafali, Age 15
In September of 2005, I left my parents and my hometown village of Adutor to move to Sogakope, the capital of the South Tongu District, in order to further my education.
I had enrolled in one of the best private schools in the area: Mawuli International [...Read More!]
Article #20 in the YCC Kids Club Ghana Student Life Stories Project When I Was Nearly Burned to Death By Edor Easteria, Age 14
I started shouting: “Give me water please, I beg, otherwise I will die!”
I was four years old when I got burnt by fire. This happened on a day when my mother left to the market to sell. My mother did not come back early, and so [...Read More!]
Article #19 in the YCC Kids Club Ghana Student Life Stories Project The Happiest Moments in My Life By Edinam Titiati, Age 14
I would like to share with you the happiest moments in my life. Everything started when I became part of Youth Creating Change of Ghana.
One day, a YCC staff member came to my school to tell us about the YCC Pilot Reading Club. If our school joined the [...Read More!]
Article #18 in the YCC Kids Club Ghana Student Life Stories Project The Life-Changing Youth Exchange Between Ghana and the United Kingdom By Nuworkpor Nelson, Age 15
It all started in February of 2009. That afternoon, a teacher came to my class and called to eight students: “The headmaster wants to see you!” I was surprised because the Headmaster is very busy and does not invite students into his office [...Read More!]
Article #17 in the YCC Kids Club Ghana Student Life Stories Project Dismissed From School For Refusing Punishment By Fedieley Precious, Age 14
When I was eight years of age, my parents decided that I should go to a far-away school in which I would be a boarder. I was so happy that I was going to a new school in the Greater Accra Region!
The day school re-opened, my parents took [...Read More!]
Article #16 in the YCC Kids Club Ghana Student Life Stories Project How a Brush Fire Killed Olukpedu By Mawuko Courage, Age 15
My name is Mawuko Courage and I have four brothers and six sisters. I live in Kpotame in the North Tongu district in the Volta Region of Ghana. My mother is a trader and my father is a pastor.
I was fourteen years old when my friend [...Read More!]
Article #15 in the YCC Kids Club Ghana Student Life Stories Project Nigerians Don’t Eat Human Flesh!!! By Okeke Melody, Age 11
My Father came from Nigeria and my Mother came from Ghana, so for the first three years of my life, I lived with my Grandmom and relatives in Nigeria.
In Kindergarten One in Nigeria, the kids always spoke the Nigerian language and never spoke “Good English.” For example, they would [...Read More!]
Article #14 in the YCC Kids Club Ghana Student Life Stories Project A Teen Girl Who Became Pregnant Out of Curiosity By Adjei Courage, Age 18 Who is to blame for teen girls getting pregnant?
When the disobedient girl who stayed with my mother became pregnant, I pondered this question a great deal.
One early Tuesday morning, my mother woke up only to realize that her sister’s daughter was still in a strange mood. [...Read More!]
Article #13 in the YCC Kids Club Ghana Student Life Stories Project Attending School Far From My Family By Bekoe K. Harry, Age 16
For the past four years, I have been living many, many kilometers away from my parents so that I can have access to a proper education.
My parents are both subsistence farmers who grow barely enough to feed our family. It was very difficult for them to support [...Read More!]