Article #28 in the YCC Kids Club Ghana Student Life Stories Project Sweeping, Singing, and Saying Poems in My First Day of Kindergarten By Edor Hannah, Age 12
My father and I walked through a green field and past some bleating goats. We were on the way to my first day at Sogasco Government School Kindergarten!
First, we entered the head teacher’s office for a short interview. Then my father paid [...Read More!]
Article #27 in the YCC Kids Club Ghana Student Life Stories Project The Day I Will Never Forget: Prison By Marvel, Age 13
As the only child of my parents, I have been lucky that my family has tried to fulfill everything I have requested of them. I am therefore a happy child. However, on December tenth, 2007, there was a day that I will never forget in my life: a [...Read More!]
Article #26 in the YCC Kids Club Ghana Student Life Stories Project My First Time at Sogakope Market By Jennifer, Age 13
I was young, seven years of age, the first time my mother brought me with her to the market. When we arrived, I saw so many things for sale: tomatoes, notebooks, pens, rice, beans, pencils, shoes, bags, yams, clothes, fabrics, fish, and more!
In Sogakope, the big outdoor market is [...Read More!]
Article #25 in the YCC Kids Club Ghana Student Life Stories Project Nearly Dying from Fetching River Water By Boateng Emmanuella, Age 14
First my bucket fell into the river, and then I tumbled in, too! I didn’t know how to swim, and there was nobody around to help me!
I was a girl of fourteen years old. At around ten o’clock in the morning, the water tap in my house stopped flowing, and [...Read More!]
Article #24 in the YCC Kids Club Ghana Student Life Stories Project The Joy of Being Congratulated for Hard Work By Patience, Age 13
“Guess who is the best Information and Communications Technology student?” asked the director of YCC. Everybody was asking themselves who that person could be.
The end of the Youth Creating Change (YCC) academic year had come to an end, and so, as they do every year, YCC’s Director [...Read More!]
Article #23 in the YCC Kids Club Ghana Student Life Stories Project My First Sleepover With Friends By Edinam Tamakloe, Age 14
It was the sixth of March, Ghana’s Independence Day. Every year we celebrate this fine day by marching down the street and giving presents. We enjoy it so much!
After celebrating, I went back home only to find my brother and his friends asking me, “How will we celebrate [...Read More!]
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!]