While I've been here in Ghana I've been volunteering at a local primary school - taking some library classes and helping out in their computer room. I usually go twice a week, and its really good fun - the kids are so cute and friendly, and they love having an "obruni" coming in to their class. The school is a public school, and therefore doesn't get much funding and their "library" was just a box of books which they had all read a million times. So I thought it would be nice to collect some books from Australia and take them to the school.
My sister very kindly arranged some books from the school library at St Augustine's Primary School in Rivervale. I also collected some other books from family and friends, and then carried them in batches (when luggage allowances permitted) back to Ghana. We finally collected four boxes of books and made our official donation to the school last week.
At the same time we also donated a box of pens, pencils, rulers, erasers etc which had been donated by Warren's mum, and her work - the Guild of St Richard which is a charity shop in Midland. The principal said he would love to use the stationary as prizes for good performance for the children.
On the day we donated the goods, we were accompanied by Janet who does Public Relations for Owere Mines and a local reporter from the radio station who then broadcast the news on the radio over the next few days. The school was happy that they got such good publicity.
In the afternoon, we had an assembly to show the children the donations and it was great feeling when all the children burst into spontaneous cheering and dancing. They were very happy!! Although when I had a class with them later, there were some funny cultural misunderstandings - the funniest of which was a girl who asked "Why is that koala bear wearing pants? Do they wear pants in Australia?!"
Photos to come (technical issues!)
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