Edu Afrique

Video on innovating those mud stoves your grandma (and maybe even you) use for cooking them delicious jollofs:  http://bit.ly/1NGH8iE

Hello everyone, We have thankfully completed our 6 months project at Asamang and Drobong in Ghana and have had a very rewarding experience. This is what you helped us to achieve: what we did: we delivered numerous public education seminars on sanitation and hygiene as well as showing the public how to make an anti mosquito cream and an improved basic stove construction. we volunteered at a a creche where we taught the little kids to maintain hand hygiene we campaigned for an end to littering and public urination by publishing an article on ModernGhana website (http://www.modernghana.com/news/460212/1/so-you-think-you-love-ghana-.html) and printing t'shirts for some community members we donated a projector to Asamang SDA church (All Nations congregation) we donated story books and stationery to Jewish Joy Creche at Asenua, Kumasi What we achieved: School seminars (kids aged 10-15 years of age) At the end of the 6months, we eva...

Those who regularly follow this blog would remember an entry where I wrote a letter to the leadership of the Seventh Day Adventist church, for help in communicating the importance of environmental cleanliness to the  700 000 strong members of the church in Ghana. While I never received any acknowledgement of my letter having reached the right department, EduAfrique was thrilled to read a weeks worth of lessons on protecting the environment in the church's daily study guides (lesson 10, March 2-8, 'Stewardship and the Environment') in this year's study guide. The discussions generated around these lessons included not littering and refraining from polluting the environment (including proper disposal of faecal matter). The small church that I attend at Asenua (Kumasi) also joined another church in the area for a cleanup day at a nearby hospital. EduAfrique provided a few t'shirts with messages reinforcing environmental cleanliness on the day. ...

Well..... not precisely, but the health messages that EduAfrique is taking to communities in Ghana is being aired on one of the nations main TV stations (GTV).The national campaign speaks against public urination, open defecation, littering (a HUGE problem) and other health diminishing practices. EduAfrique was overjoyed to see the ad on TV on the 20th of this month. EduAfrique will be printing T'shirts to speak against these polluting practices as well.

EduAfrique has another volunteer! My mum arrived in Ghana at the end of Jan to lend a hand.

EduAfrique volunteers for 3 hours a day at a local creche in Kumasi. We draw and paint with the kids and teach them the importance of hand hygiene.

EduAfrique conducted a week long public education event in a very rural village close to the northern part of Ghana. The village had no electricity (and no goats - due to some sort of supersitition) so our equipments were powered by a generator. The village folk who are commercial maize producers, were very busy during the day but came out in droves in the evenings for the workshops. The people in this village had very limited concepts of hygiene but the coverage of sanitation was one the highest we've seen in Ghana. Toilets were found in many parts of the village.