Havilah Academy
Situated in Gomoa Ojobi - Ghana.
Opened by Nana Kwa Budu, May 1999, with 9 pupils.
This school is in his back yard!
He also subsidizes the costs, but cannot do so forever.

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It now has over 200 pupils, aged 2-14.
Havilah Academy, Ghana, Africa. The school's classrooms
These are the classrooms.
Made from planks of wood nailed together.
Not very conducive to learning are they.
They look like garden
sheds.

The school teaches English, French, Fanti (the local language), Math, Science, Social Sciences Culture Studies, Drawing and PE when it can, and caters for nursery, kindergarten I-V
and Stages I-V of main education.

Caroline Johnston of Waterlooville, Hampshire, England teaching.
Caroline volunteered to spend
3 months in Ghana as a
volunteer teacher.
This is an after school class!
Using slates and chalk!
Read her letter

Havilah Academy, Ghana, African. Caroline Johnston taking an after school class. They are that enthuastic to learn!
The nursery and kindergarten classes are held in one of Nana's rooms in his home, due to the total lack of classrooms.
If a teacher is away sick, a pupil will without prompting stand
in front of the class and run through the last lesson!
Havilah Academy, Ghana, Africa. Charlotte taking a math class of very eager African pupils.

Charlotte, another
volunteer teacher, taking
a class for math.
The pupils will stay after
school to get more
lessons.
The 'staff' consists of 8 teachers, 4 non-teaching
and 2 volunteers every 3 months.
The need for additional classrooms is paramount right now.
Havilah Academy, Ghana, Africa. Pupils at their school's roadside signpost.
Just some of the happy pupils
standing at the road junction
leading to their school.
They are proud of their
school's signpost
The school children come from the local area,
their parents being farm labourers.
The local economy is mainly barter with very little money
being earned for schooling and education.
They are, however, so enthusiastic to learn that their parents
are prepared to sacrifice what little money they have got,
in order to pay for their children's tuition fees and lunch.
This meal is for some the only one they have for the day.