Ghana

Who: RESPECT Intellectual Club

Where: Buduburam Refugee Camp, Accra, Ghana

 

The RESPECT Intellectual Club is located in the Buduburam Refugee Camp in Accra, Ghana.

Youth Participants of the RESPECT Intellectual Club are from five schools involve in RESPECT GHANA, ages 8 to 22 years old.  They are primarily refugees from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and the Ivory Coast.

The RESPECT Intellectual Club was most recently the host community for the One World Africa Youth Summit (OWAYS) held in Accra, Ghana in July 2007.  For more information on OWAYS, click here.

 

 

Refugee Education Sponsorship Program:

Enhancing Communities Together

RESPECT GHANA

(An Affiliate of RESPECT International CANADA.  www.respectrefugees.org)

Refugee communities are almost built in isolated and non-productive regions limiting communication between these communities  and the outside world. As a result, these communities can feel forgotten by the world in addition to being downtrodden by political circumstances.

Non-refugee communities are in turn isolated from these refugee communities, cutting them off from exposure to the most devastating and disturbing effects of war and conflict-displacement of people and the stories these survivors can share. This deprives non-refugee communities from the wisdom of experience that refugee communities have in abundance-the first hand knowledge of the effects of war. Refugees face potential loss of human dignity. Self-respect must be sustained if refugee youth are to become contributing citizens of a global community.

RESPECT works to increase awareness of refugee issues by connecting teachers with appropriate resources.

 

RESPECT works to empower refugee educational communities to connect with global communities through pen-pal letter exchange.

RESPECT works to encourage and facilitate positive activism on refugee issues amongst youth.

                                                                                                                                                    

RESPECT works to increase web presence, visibility, and connectivity of affiliates                                  

organizations and refugee schools.

RESPECT works to increase connectivity and visibility for refugee awareness raising organizations.

RESPECT works to increase access to computer and the Internet for refugee schools and organizations that work with refugee schools.

RESPECT works to develop and support partnership relationships between refugee and non-refugee schools. The nature of these partnership relationships include, but not limited to: Pen-pal letter exchange, cultural exchange(Video, photos, etc ).

RESPECT encourages non-refugee schools to fund-raise for their partner refugee schools.

RESPECT encourages these funds to be used for things including, but not limited to: The sending of care packages for school. The sending of International Reply Coupons(IRC) contributions toward the funding of computer resources for their school.

RESPECT also encourages sustainable agricultural production by introducing the drip irrigation technology and the three sisters garden methods of production.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Members of RESPECT GHANA Networks attended a one day

International Youth Day Celebration organized by YES GHANA

Learn More About Ghana...

                          

One World Country Guide of Ghana  

BBC Country Profile

   BBC Timeline of the History of Ghana

  Lonely Planet- History of Ghana

      

World Factbook Overview of Ghana