Projects

Woohoo! We have ourselves an instrument storage room now! All instruments have been inventoried and now there is a designated, secure place to keep all these beauties! Thanks to Susan and Tony Anderson for making this possible.

Back in 2011, Andrew Sanderson gave

Our child sponsorship programme is making a huge difference for some extremely needy

Here we go again! This is the third building that required a roof reno. Thank goodness there are finally long roofing sheets available in Ghana! Due to the previous roofing materials, (short sheets, straight nails--not spiralled), constant winds lifting the sheets, and torrential rains, the wooden trusses below would frequently get exposed to the rain which inevitably caused them to rot. There was great teamwork to get this completed in a couple of days! 

Another grateful thank you to Susan and Tony Anderson for financing this project!

Now that custom full length roofing sheets can be sourced in Ghana, it was necessary to replace some of the roofs on the buildings at Dekpor Basic School.   Here you can see the administration building getting a facelift.

A big thanks to Susan and Tony Anderson's donation for allowing us to tackle the necessary buildings!

Shipping is a LOT of work, but goodness, just look in any distribution album to see the happy faces of the recipients!   

Some people may appear rather straight-faced.  Well, that is due to being entirely overwhelmed and also, culturally-speaking, it is considered rude to smile for such a serious event.  It takes some prompting to get most to smile!   

July 28th--Oh, what a day!

As part of their Love Week 2024 activities, Elevation Church, Mississauga held a Kids Against Hunger Canada food packing event and we were chosen to be the recipients of all the boxes packed on Sunday!

There were an astounding 420 volunteers from their congregation helping prep the food in 12 assembly lines.

We were given 188 boxes of food!!! 

Let's do some math...

36 bags in each box, a day's worth of nutrition for 6 people in each bag

A new library lid!

Our very first building project was in 2010 when we constructed a very modest-sized library.  In 2015, we realised that the overwhelming use of the library meant that adding a substantial 60' extension to also house an all-purpose assembly hall would be a wise move.  

As you have seen, building materials available in rural Ghana are not the same as what we can source in North America. We did the best we could with what we had. After a decade, it is time for us to do a complete reno.

We are so pleased to offer vacation "summer" school again!

It's a chance for the oldest students at Dekpor Basic to enjoy smaller classes and get more time to hone their skills. Our sponsored students attend--plus any other student who is dedicated to their studies and wants to give themselves a chance to improve.

This year we have the JHS 2 and JHS 3 attending for the first two weeks: two hours of ICT and two hours of math. Then the P6 and JHS 1 students will attend.