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The journey will be used as both a fund-raising exercise (target £5,000) and also an educational resource with local schools being involved in the preparation, planning and monitoring of progress via the Internet. Departure date is now set for 7th October 2007. Please dig deep and sponsor us online. So please sponsor
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KINDERGARTEN
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Build a Kindergarten Classroom in Ghana, West Africa |
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Inside the classrooms light shone through the walls. The floor was earth. Children sat on collapsing chairs and wrote on small chalk boards leaning on broken tables. With no electricity the only form of light was that from outside. Imagine English children being sent to a school like this. |
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On my return from Ghana in 2001 I set about actively raising money to rebuild the Kindergarten classroom. My second visit in February 2002 saw the handing over of the first £500 raised.
The original estimated price to rebuild the classroom was £1000 but due to the staff's sheer enthusiasm, their desire for more rooms and inflation (17,000 cedis to the UK£) we set about to raise at least another £4000 to enable their wishes to be met. The last visit in July 2005 saw the final building complete with children ready to learn already occupying the classrooms. |
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A
10,000 mile overland journey to Ghana & back (we fly home, my daughter
Becie & Steve do the return leg), passing through Morocco, Mauritania,
Mali, Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo & Ghana. The trip will be by a specially
prepared Land Rover and will take approximately 3 months. 
On
a visit to Ghana, West Africa in October 2001 I became aware of the
desperate need of rebuilding a Kindergarten Classroom in a town called
Agona Swedru in the Central Region. The existing classroom was built
from mud bricks and wood, its days were numbered. The wood was rotting
and the mud bricks were slowly being washed away.
On
visiting the kindergarten I was pleased to see the enthusiasm of all
the staff, the then headmaster Mr Francis Benson, had already contacted
a mason who had drawn up plans for the new building.