COVID-19 opportunities

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

Waste Seperation

Youth For Change Educational Centre

6 Students of Youth for Change Educational Centre – school located in Kumasi – Ghana, have decided to embark on waste separation initiative to help save mother nature. Indiscriminate disposal of waste is a widespread problem in Ghana. Among the waste are plastics which are causing so much havoc to destruction of our fertile farm lands, animals, air pollution, etc.

The students from 10 th November decided to serve as ambassadors of change, labeled two (2) containers and placed them in their classroom. By this, they encouraged their friends to do same and avoid indiscriminate littering in the classroom and the school at large.

It is our hope that, the separated items will be reused for other purposes including using the
plastic bags for nursing of flowers for replanting at the school, the papers can also be used as part of composting which could be used as fertilizer to the school’s flowering pots.

It’s our hope that we will continue with this education at home and encourage others to take this responsibility to help safe Mother Nature.

When school resume in full session from January 2021, we will continue with this initiate to bring about change to ourselves, change to others and save mother nature.

Nursing plants and planting flowers

Youth for Change Education

Also in Ghana the corona virus strikes. The government in Ghana is reopening education institutions in phases. All schools were closed in March, only final year students were allowed in late June to prepare for their exit exams and they completed that 18th of September. Now, only second year students of junior high school class will be allowed from 5th October to 10th December. All the other grades will begin next year in January. 

We are taking advantage, because of the low crowds, to nurse plants and also plant flowers in the school. Plans are also advanced in going into farming to support the school.