Beginning the Third Week

Monday July 28^th. 

We are now located in Labone Senior Secondary School in Accra to start our last series of workshops. We started off with the usual routine and opening ceremonies. The rest of the morning and most of the afternoon was taken up with the school action plans. This gives them a chance to present their successes and challenges with the other five schools attending.

We heard about a school that has too many children for the school, so they run two shifts 6:30 to 12:30 and then 12:30 to 5:30. This means that k-1 or k-2 students have to come early and maybe stay for the afternoon to wait for a sibling; or children leave home to walk to school or from school in the dark. Teachers and students change shifts every two weeks. Another remote school has one room for teacher accommodation that they have partitioned into four and the head teacher has given up his office to accommodate another teacher. The rest commute a long way.

The afternoon passed as the schools presented their reports. When we got back to the hotel I immediately went to bed and had an hour nap. I really needed it. I got up in time for dinner which we ate inside. I had a delicious grouper fillet. The usual group hung out outside by the bar for a nightcap before heading off to bed.