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!]
Tragic poverty here… horrific earthquake there…
Lack of basic educational supplies here… lack of clean drinking water there…
How does a caring soul decide who to help?During the sixth anniversary celebration of Youth Creating Change, Ghana, I gleaned two tips that have since saved me some serious stress about world aid.
Perhaps these tips will help you, too!TIP ONE: One Youth, One Community at a Time.
This is the official motto of YCC. [...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!]
If you’ve got a good head on your shoulders and a good internet connection, you can stay for free, safely, in the houses of kind people all around the world! How? Couchsurfing.org.
For some of you, this article will be a review of a global trick you already know well. For others, however, this may be a thrilling new insight into budget travel!
As we proceed through the steps of how to use [...Read More!]
Article #12 in the YCC Kids Club Ghana Student Life Stories Project Climbing Mount Afadjato, My First Mountain Ever! By Edor Hannah, Age 12
As we trudged up, up, up, the tallest mountain in Ghana, I became so tired and sweaty that I nearly wanted to turn back. But I needed to see what the top of the mountain looked like! It was my first mountain ever.
The original name for [...Read More!]
Confession: I was a raging, frustrated brat all of last week. Why? So much of daily life here in Ghana’s Volta Region feels… harder!
Case in point: the stove.
Two weeks ago, we ran out of gas for the stove. Easy enough to re-fill the chubby silver tank, right? Wrong. Sogakope is currently completely out of stove gas. Further, it appears the entire Volta Region of Ghana is [...Read More!]
Article #11 in the YCC Kids Club Ghana Student Life Stories Project Our Educational Trip to Cape Coast By Kakraba Praise, Age 13
While on the Canopy Walk, I looked down, down, down– two hundred and fifty meters down!– and I felt like I was going to fall through the leaves and smash upon the earth at any minute!
This was on a trip to Cape Coast with eleven other students, thanks to [...Read More!]
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!]