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Clark helped build community hygiene solutions
fromwA—19
scholarship, “I would have ended
up being a shepherd, that was the
only future for me and everyone else
around me.”
In Ghana, students attend primary
school for six years before moving on
to three years of junior high school and
three years of senior high school. High
school was not government-funded un-
til September 2017, when President
Nana Akuffo-Addo introduced the.
Free Senior High School poliéy, which
is supported by World Bank loans.
Salifa’s scholarship covered the cost
of attendance to Akwamuman Senior
High School and the University of Ed-
ucation—Winneba, where he earned a
degree in physics education.
Now, Salifa leads the Ghana chap-
ter of the organization World Possible,
which uses an offline educational
server —— Remote Area Community
Hotspot for Education & Learning
(RACHEL) —— to bring education to ev-
ery memberof the Senchi—Ferry com-
munity.
“It’s that saying—~if you give a kid a
fish you don’t help him for more than
a meal, (but if you take him out to fish,
he can feed his family his entire life.”
Both GSF and World Possible
helped to create educational program-
ming spanning from day care to adult
learning for those unable to afford
senior high school. The scholarships
covered the education of hundreds in
the Senchi-Ferry community, but the
giving does not end there, Salifa said.
“We not only receive a scholarship,
but we receive mentorship, parenting,
and counseling —— we are much more
of a family than just an institution,”
he added.
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high school students in Senchi-Ferry, Ghana. Courtesy photo
Clark said Ismail is the “feet on
the ground” in Senchi-Ferry, but she
helps Ismail with planning and proj-
ect design. Over the last year, Clark
helped design community hygiene
solutions ranging from handwashing
stations to soap distribution projects.
Clark also regularly purchases books
at the North Mason Timberland Li-
brary, Friends of the Library. book
sales to help fill the shelves of the
Senchi-Ferry Community Library.
Wonderful
things
happen
“We get wonderful handwritten thank
you notes, but they just really have a
strong sense of pay-it—forward,” Clark
said.
“When they (GSF scholars) are on
winter or spring break, they come
back to the village and work with the
kids or come to the Schools and give
motivational talks.”
. GSF scholars have returned to
their community to build hygiene sta-
tions, give pep-talks to classrooms and
Ghana Scholarship Fund scholar Francisca Debrah leads a recent “Our
Planning Your Future” workshop with
volunteer in the library. Other GSF
scholars who earned degrees in medi-
cine have taken the initiative to bring
vital'vaccines to protect those in rural
communities across Africa from polio,
meningitis and other diseases.
“Instead of giving out gifts to us
we’d rather be taught how to read and
how to learn,” Salifa said.
“Education is the most power-
ful tool we can use to transform the
world.” "
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