Youth For Change Education
In Ghana, Government officially reopened all schools last week for academic work to continue after 10 months of closure because of COVID-19.
Schools had a big challenge in managing the children under COVID-19 preventive measures. YFC is no exception. But am happy to report that, the lessons learnt from the last seminar has influenced our way of taking certain actions differently from the normal trend.
First, the flowers we planted during the COVID-19 school closures have blossom and the kids are so happy to see that transformation and have taken it upon themselves to do the watering of them every morning.
Secondly, the school is working on a waste separation agenda. Three containers are available in the school. One to collect plastic bottles (blue) , one to collect sachet rubbers from water (yellow ) and last one for collection of burnable trash (papers, toffee wrappers etc) This has tremendously improved the cleanliness of the school. We hope to use the sachet rubbers for recycle products soon.
Regarding the plastic bottles, I’m happy we have already started reusing them as water bottles for the students, because they are not suppose to share cups or bottles in the school as a COVID preventive measure. In addition, some of the bottles are used as liquid soap containers for handwashing.
Lastly, we have announced the formation of Life-Link ambassadors project - the ambassadors will help with waste separation and a proper disposal agenda in the school. The school hopes to present a prize to them if they are able to achieve zero littering in their classrooms by mid April.
Ali Ibrahim Founder and Director Youth For Change Education
