the story behind help tafo trust
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Hello!
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Basil Johnston went to Ghana as a volunteer in 2000.
Heres Charity (Basils unofficiallyadopted daughter) who is a teacherat the school.
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Ghana
Scotland
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Basil Johnston became best friends with Juliet Osafo, Headof the school where she was volunteering. They decided tobuild a school together.
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Juliet is now ourGhanaian director.
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Tafo
The school is 2 hours in land fromGhanas capital, Accra
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A typical rural village home.Most houses dont have
electricity, none have runningwater or sanitation.
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Another typical rural village home
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Abigail having her morning bath!
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Asafo village many of our children
come from here.
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The aim of our school is to educate thebrightest children from the outlying
impoverished villages.
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May 2002 Buying theland to build Juliet JohnstonSchoolwe bought enough land so we could farm and feed
our children. Many rural children only eat two or threemeals A WEEK!
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Clearing theland we had to get permits to cut down thebigger trees which we then used to build our schoolfurniture.
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Building the school
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Building the school
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Our school
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We opened in September
2003 with 49 children.
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The Chief of Tafoattending our Open Day.
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The children showing the Chief t fortickle and v for vomit! The children
adapted Jolly Phonics for Ghana
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A typical state school
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A typical state classroom
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Another typical state classroom!
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And another
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One of our classrooms
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Another of our classrooms
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Phonics with
Madam Mercy
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Guided reading with
Madam Charity
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Lunch time
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Playtime
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We now have over 300 children!
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One of our 2 school buses. It takes each minibus over 4 hours totransport our children to school and back every day over veryharsh terrain because we have over 300 children and our
catchment area of outlying villages is huge.
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It looks good but this bus was 17 years old when webought it and cost 10,000! Secondhand vehicles inGhana are 4 or 5 times the price in Europe.
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The majority of ourchildrens parents are
subsistence farmers.
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Ophelia Boateng is 5 years old, extremely bright and extremely poor. Her father had a stroke2 years ago at the age of 46 and is unable to farm, while her mother is a tomato and pepperpetty trader. She is one of 6. Sponsored by a UK donor, Ophelia is doing really well at school.
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Volunteer project manager Matt Brown
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Volunteer Rebecca Morrow
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Cutlass!
Ghana is a very peaceful country and held its 5th democratic presidentialelection December 2008. In other countries a cutlass is seen as a weapon,but in Ghana its a useful farming tool used by all children and adults alike.
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Despite the enormous cost of transporting so many children we remaincommitted to our objective of educating as many of the brightestchildren from the poorest outlying villages as we can.
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Thank you for supporting us!