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Ghana’s First School!

  • Adam Braun
  • PoP Culture
  • April 16, 2013

Ghana may be the newest country we’re operating in, but we have already been able to inaugurate three new schools in the Volta Region. I want to give you a quick glimpse at the very first school we opened here in Ghana: Goviepe Todzi Preschool.

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The Kindergarten students were using a community health center as their classroom. Subsequently, the health center could not be used to provide services to the rest of the community.

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It was incredible to see the work the community put in to the project & the progess that was made each time we visited.

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Balloons, dancing, singing & speeches; Goviepe threw such a fun celebration to commemorate the opening of their new classrooms.

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The new school is beautiful & the teachers & students are really enjoying their new space.

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It was fun sitting in & watching the kindergarten classes in their new rooms. Teachers take attendance at the beginning of the day while the students practice the alphabet. The lesson this morning was about animals; the students had to tell the teacher where they would find each of the animals in their book.

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It was such a cool experience getting to know the community members of Goviepe. I can’t wait for PoP to continue partnering with Goviepe Todzi to provide quality education to their students.

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