I am very excited to have started a new term! This term is short but intense. All Girls LEAP students are ending their programs for the year. Every school will do its service project. We are currently working with three senior high schools: Asanteman, Antoa and Achinakrom Senior High Schools (SHS). Girls from these schools have identified problems in their communities, and they are going to find solutions to these problems as part of their service project. Achinakrom SHS stud

So, I am a food lover...Okay, let me try to rephrase that! I love food…not that I love to eat but I just love food. You will get me in a bit if you haven’t by now. Frankly, when it comes to choosing what to eat, I can be very selective. When I feel like eating a particular dish, I try to cook or find it. I won’t say I’m a chef but I do try to make tummies happy. As a freshman in the University in 2009, I found myself in an all-female hall of residence. My hall-mates and I wan

What sets Exponential Education apart is that our organization focuses on capacity building. For example, in our Peer-2-Peer Program, Senior High School tutors are given the resources they need by Expo to execute a successful lesson for their Junior High School peers. In our Girls Leadership, Action, Empowerment (LEAP) Program and our Boys for Positive Change (BPC) Program, students learn the material from recently graduated students who have already completed the program. Ou

Expo works in Kumasi area of Ghana: the so-called Garden City, the historical centre of the vibrant Ashanti culture. The Akans are very proud of Ashanti cultural heritage, especially of their language (Twi). However, even though Twi and other local languages (Ewe, Ga, Dagbani, Dangme, Nzemaa, Kasem, Gonja, Hausa etc.) are widely spoken in day-to-day life, English is still the official language in Ghana. It is the language of instruction throughout the Ghanaian educational sys