School Site in Aiykumah

For the past bit, Mawuvio's Outreach Programme has been building a new school about 45 minutes away from Accra in a town called Aiykumah. I went out with Kwame about a month ago to see it. The progress is amazing! So far, the bottom floor is almost completed. It has running water and a lot, if not all, of the painting is done. The electricity is in progress and many things still have to be added, but soon the kids will be able to move out of, what is affectionately called, the "Kisseman Confusion." The students in Levels 2 and up will move to the new site, the KG1 and Primary 1 kids staying in Kisseman as they're still quite young. The new school will give them the opportunity to study and live in a calmer, more stable environment that won't include many of the temptations found in Accra [hanging out around the markets and staying out late with no one knowing where they are, for example].

So, below are some [alright, a lot] of pictures of the new school. Enjoy! :)

[the pictures are of the kids graduating and going on to accomplish many of the big jobs they dream about]

[front door and logo!]

[view from the incomplete second floor. there are large hills/mountains in the distance along this whole side of the school. it was a beautiful view and everything so green!]

[the kids wrote down what they wanted painted in their school and Renee's mom included these things. beginning of illustration: the students in learning in school with their teachers and classmates and playing football.]

[the students graduating, going to university (a truly massive dream, right now), and becoming big men and women: teachers, athletes, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, and other big things]

[looking down the hall]

[inside one of the classrooms. this one will have a mobile divider where the middle column is so it can be two classrooms or a large one for activities]

[stars, sun, moon, and clouds on the ceiling]

[on one of the walls were animals that they know]

[Ghana with its ten regions and their capitals and pictures of Ghana's products/crops]

[the solar system is my favorite because of its location and use of small space between two windows]

[one of the dormitories. boys are in this one and girls in an identical room on the opposite side of the school, or vice versa. it will hold triple bunk beds. through the door is a small room with their individual lockers and in the next room are the tiled showers and washrooms.]

[shot from the washrooms back to the dorm room]