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28.02.2016
Review on 2015: 5 Containers, 2 School Buses and the Start of Computer Lessons


2015 was another exciting year for our Ghana project, especially for our project manager Pastor Alfred Osei-Poku, who often worked at the limit of his strength. We achieved a lot.

 

In 1998, one year after the association had been founded, we started the CHA Kindergarten in a small village named Ayirebi in the bush of Ghana, originally with 15 children. From this small beginning by now the Elim Academy School with about 700 pupils has developed. When in 2011 the first age group wrote their final exams, the school received an award from the government because of the high rate of pupils passing these exams successfully: The same examination was written at all schools within the district, 67% of the participants failed. At Elim Academy, however, ALL passed the exams! This has since been an ongoing motivation to Pastor Alfred to keep on. Also in the passed year another age group could successfully finish their school time.

 

But not only running works continued, also new ones started: Guillaume Fournier from Hamburg, a student in the field of computer technology, made an internship at the Elim Academy from end of January to the end of June and used his time to establish a computer lab where computer courses have started. The computers were mainly used ones donated from Hamburg authorities, put out of service here, but ideal for training purposes in Africa. Help came also from companies: I.e. Guillaume organized further PCs from Fa. Bose in Coburg and keyboards from Fa. Cimpa in Hamburg.

 

Traditionally, once every year we make a delivery of relief goods to Ghana. Rarely in the passed this was of such extent than this time: Five 40 ft high-cube containers full of relief goods were sent in 2015 with the aid of the Bundesentwicklungsministerium. Among the items where two highly needed school buses, which the Hamburg Feuerwehr had used before. Like in previous years, the company LINTEC in Buxtehude provided us a storage hall where we could collect the relief goods.

 

Apart from these items and materials for the school, a number of wheel-chairs, medical devices and about 60 hospital beds were included, mainly from the hospital in Buxtehude. In the past, we often submitted such equipment to other clinics. These, however, we kept for our own new project: A CHA Medical Center to be built soon!

 


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