Day 7 School in the morning was productive once again as we painted and sanded bookshelves in classrooms whilst the children did as much as they could to pitch in or surround us asking us to sing with them in some cases. We worked through the heat and the end result was starting to look...Read More
Day 4 On Tuesday we started the project by sledge hammering the floors of two classrooms. This involved hammering, shovelling and carrying rubble, resulting in us covered by dust and sweat! It was also Ed Brown’s birthday, receiving a Ghanaian shirt and card. In the evening, we hung out with our buddies who helped pick...Read More
Day 1 Hello everyone as you already know we have arrived in the beautiful country of Ghana. Travelling here was very tiring but worth it when we arrived. When we got to Accra, we were excited but soon realised the massive difference in culture. Everyone wanted to help us, even if it was just to...Read More
Day 7 Akwaaba! Today was a very interesting day, after the hard labour of yesterday we could put away our sand paper and replace it with paintbrushes. Leah, Alice ,Clara and Elspeth painted in the ICT room where Elspeth’s height was put to good use by getting her to paint near the ceiling whilst the...Read More
Welcome to the Buxton team! They arrived in Accra last night and are now on their way down to meet their partner school, Kissi Ebeneezer. More photos and blogs up soon. Keep an eye on the blog and Facebook.Read More
Day 5 Early start again and the group enjoyed a continental breakfast of hot pancakes with chocolate spread and jam. A quick taxi ride to school for some with the lunches left us waiting for the walkers who trekked in the humidity through Elmina. Split into four groups the team were categorised into painting inside...Read More
Day 6 Everyone is well; the past few days have been busy but great fun. We did a dance and drumming workshop yesterday with the buddies, it was good fun as we learnt some traditional Ghanaian dances. We have finally finished painting the school including 3 themed rooms of science, english and maths. In addition...Read More
Day 5 Today we went back to St John’s to help redesign their old school library. First we repainted the walls yellow. This took a lot of perseverance to make sure there wasn’t any more patches of the old wall and the colour was consistent. For lunch we had Ms Shake’s favourite red red and...Read More
Day 1 Following 19 hours of an eventful trip, involving one loss of a passport (Karim), the group finally arrived in Ghana. Upon arrival at Accra, the group were taken back by the heat, even at 21:30. As well as the sticky humidity, the students were also taken back by the mass of locals who...Read More
Days 1 and 2 Akwaaba (Greetings) from Ghana! After the panic of Accra, we’ve safely arrived in the community of Ankwanda. Having exchanged national anthems, we met our buddies and got to know them. Shortly after, the boys lost to seven years olds at football, whilst the girls learnt some Ghanaian crazy dance moves. We...Read More
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