Youth Literacy in Ghana

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by Dr. Dawne Stefanik0 views·Updated Mar 22, 2021
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  1. Welcome to the final posts of the G s Youth
  2. Literacy Project.
  3. Welcome to the final post of the G s Youth
  4. Literacy Project.
  5. For this post, I'll be focusing on youth literacy in
  6. Ghana and how we can help.
  7. So my uncle is actually recognized for his philanthropy in
  8. schools in Ghana.
  9. They call him Nana Kwame Yeboah.
  10. The first, which means the warrior king of the village
  11. he works for in that village.
  12. He's building classrooms in that village He's donating in that
  13. village. He's building better schools, a new orphanage and a
  14. vocational technical educational center to increase employment and a vocational
  15. technical educational center to increase employment for out of school
  16. students for for individuals who for individual, for individuals who
  17. finished school and for individuals that finish school and need
  18. a job to go for individuals that finish school and
  19. need somewhere to go.
  20. Okay. Mhm.
  21. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
  22. Okay. Yeah.
  23. Mhm. Mm hmm.
  24. Yeah. Mhm!
  25. Mhm. Looking at mhm Looking at the average classroom in
  26. Ghana, there's one text book for every 10 students.
  27. There's no computers or electricity, no art materials and most
  28. teachers lack of college education.
  29. There is very high unemployment rates after school, which is
  30. why it's really important that my uncle is building a
  31. technical educational center for the students who pursue careers after
  32. school and have a hard time with them.
  33. He also donates pencils, colored pencils, any art materials that
  34. the schools don't usually have provided and raises funds for
  35. textbooks and overall education plans.
  36. So I actually interviewed my Uncle John to see, so
  37. I actually interviewed by John to see his words on
  38. what it means to help.
  39. What he says is a lot of people are looking
  40. forward for an upper.
  41. A lot of people are.
  42. So I actually interviewed my uncle to see what he
  43. thinks it means to help.
  44. He says that a lot of people are looking for
  45. an opportunity to help and to never be afraid to
  46. reach out about a good cause.
  47. He means that help is always necessary and it's necessary.
  48. He means that he means that help is always necessary,
  49. whether that means spreading awareness about whether that means spreading
  50. awareness about in education in Ghana, advocating for youth literacy
  51. in your community and strengthening young readers, donating materials to
  52. classrooms or making monetary donations to schools so that they
  53. can better fund their educational resources.
  54. So here's how you can get involved.
  55. You can.
  56. So here's how you can get involved.
  57. You can donate to the give a child a place,
  58. so here's how you can get involved.
  59. You can donate to give a child in Ghana a
  60. safe place to learn by the page a foundation.
  61. They have a $12,000 goal.
  62. They have a $12,000 goal, and they need all the
  63. help they can get.
  64. Any donations aren't any.
  65. Donations are appreciated, and all of them go to building
  66. better classrooms in Ghana and thus concludes the GS youth
  67. literacy project.
  68. Thank you so much for following along, and I hope
  69. you're able to help out schools in Ghana.