Freda Ayesua Amadi is a first year student of the Koforidua Technical University. She is pursuing a Diploma in Public Administration which according to her is perfectly in line with her future career ambitions. Freda’s academic journey has not been a smooth one but through hard work and determination, she made it to one of […]

Rural Education Advocacy Program (REAP Ghana) has donated reusable nose masks to final year students in some selected basic schools in Nsawam ahead of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). According to Mr. Christian Sackey-Acquah, the program director, the gesture was to help the students protect themselves from the dreaded COVID-19 virus as they prepare

When Freda’s email came through on the evening of June 24, 2020, it was all joy for the team. Hardly do former beneficiaries of the REAP Ghana sponsorship program get in touch with us after completing their basic education. Freda Ackom was enrolled in the REAP Ghana sponsorship program when she was in class 4

With barely a week to the start of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), students are still finding ways to make up for the lost school hours during lockdown. As part of measures to curb the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the government of Ghana ordered the closure of schools in March this year. BECE

Professor Marian Asantewah Nkansah of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has been listed among the top 10 scientists on the continent. This is according to the 2020 Analytical Scientists Power List, which recognizes the best scientists in the world. Prof. Asantewah Nkansah is currently with the Department of Chemistry at KNUST,

After her retirement from teaching and as a result of her ties with the Ghanaian community in Denver, Colorado, Priscilla Jeffery was invited to visit to Nsawam, Ghana in 2011. Because of her background in non-profit management, she was asked to meet with local community members and leaders to work on a needs assessment with

One fine afternoon in June 2015, I had an encounter with the director of social welfare at the Ga West Municipal Assembly, an experience that would go on to change a lot about me and even to an extent direct my career path. That afternoon, I had walked into the office of the director to