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Major upgrades to basic education

In Articles, Ghana, University Internship,
by Ashley Grzybowski December 6, 2010

Adum Presby Primary School’s Class 3 is made up of 60 children: 33 boys and 27 girls, each wearing a royal blue uniform and a short hair cut. They are packed into wooden desks by threes, and even by fours, although they are only meant to seat two, sharing their textbooks and many other things [...]

Tagged as: CIDA, education, Ghana, jhr, Millennium Development Goals

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Breaking down barriers to girls’ education in Ghana

In Articles, Ghana, Uncategorized, University Internship,
by Ashley Grzybowski December 2, 2010

Drained from an exhausting, hot day, my colleague Laura and I walked sluggishly towards Achimota Senior High School. As we drew closer, the fervent commotion of the youthful crowd was distinctly heard. It filled the recently vacated school grounds with new energy and life. Upon entering the gym, we could feel the excitement and our [...]

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Rationing Out Equality

In Blog, Educational Internships, Ghana, Uncategorized, University Internship,
by Ashley Grzybowski August 23, 2010

Dakurah Rubby is from Sankana, a small rural community in the Upper West region, where many families(including her own) depend highly on agriculture and small-scale farming as their primary source of income. Dakurah is 14-years-old and the eldest girl in her family. Typically, she would have been withdrawn from school over her brothers to work [...]

Tagged as: CIDA, food insecurity, Girl Child Education, jhr, poverty, Upper West, World Food Programme

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Finding Faith in Government

In Ghana, University Internship,
by Ashley Grzybowski August 13, 2010
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Whether you spend two days or two months in Ghana, one thing you quickly realize is the dominance of religion and politics that is present in everyday life. For the last two weeks of our internship at Kapital Radio, we have switched out of the newsroom and entered the heated realm of politics on Mufty’s [...]

Tagged as: Christianity and faith, Ghana, jhr, Kapital Radio, New Patriotic Party (NPP), Presbyterian Church of Ghana, The Right to Take Part in Government, Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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Enabling the Disabled

In Blog, Ghana, University Internships,
by Ashley Grzybowski August 5, 2010

Mr. Asa Yaw Atakora, Vice President of the Ghana Society of the Physically Disabled (GSPD) was one of the featured panelists on this week’s segment of “Know Your Rights,” which focused on the rights of disabled persons. As a disabled man himself, he shared the realities of being disabled with the listeners and criticized the [...]

Tagged as: CIDA, Ghana, Ghana Society of the Physically Disabled, jhr, persons with disabilities

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Paving the Road for Development

In Ghana, University Internship, University Internships,
by Ashley Grzybowski July 26, 2010
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Following our interviews in Accra, Laura and I decided to travel to Wa (in the Upper West Region) this week to do field work for our CIDA assignments. We headed to the bus station in Kumasi Sunday morning after being advised by a local transit worker to arrive early in order to secure our seats. [...]

Tagged as: CIDA, jhr, UNICEF, Upper West, Wa, WFP

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The Fine Line between Traditional and Modern Worlds

In Blog, Ghana, University Internship,
by Ashley Grzybowski July 19, 2010
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One of the many advantages of travelling is the opportunity to experience diverse cultures and, participate in cross cultural exchanges with locals, immigrants and other travelers. These encounters with differences and the unfamiliar are incredibly enriching. It allows people to connect and learn common values, while understanding and accepting each others’ differences.  Beliefs, behaviours and [...]

Tagged as: CIDA, jhr, Kapital Radio, Tradition

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Tangled in the Web of Aid and Development in Ghana

In Blog, Ghana, University Internship,
by Ashley Grzybowski July 12, 2010
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On top of our duties at Kapital Radio, our other obligations involved in this overseas university internship is to produce insightful media that creates awareness about complex development issues in Ghana and the efforts in place to address them. Billions of foreign aid dollars are pumped into the “Gateway to Africa” annually with elaborate plans [...]

Tagged as: CIDA, Foreign Aid, Ghana, jhr, Kapital Radio, Millennium Development Goals

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