"Knowledge is like a baobab tree.
No one person can embrace it with both arms."
Meet Our Students:
Our program is just getting off the ground!
We are excited to announce that our first
exchange students will be coming to study in the US
during the 2008-2009 school year. Please check in
often to see updates on the students and to meet the new
candidates!
Minua
Minua is a 13-year old girl who is currently living at Hardt Haven
Children's Home in Kpando, Ghana. Her mother died of AIDS and there
is no known information on her father. She spent much of her childhood
selling wheat at market and caring for her younger sister Nancy. Minua
enjoys reading and "eats up" any story book she can get her hands on.
Minua was chosen for the program because she is a fast learner with good
grades and she has a hard-working demeanor. She looks forward to
flying in an airplane and promises to study hard while in the US
Justice
Justice is a 16-year-old boy living at Hardt Haven Children's Home in
Kpando, Ghana. His father has died of AIDS. His mother works hard to
provide for herself and her daughter who has lost one of her arms. Justice
loves school and is a big help around the orphanage. He is talented at
making things from whatever materials are available to him - such as
making a broom from palm branches or hammering out tin cans to form a
toy truck. He loves to dance and create rhythms on anything that will
work as a drum.
Wisdom
Wisdom Adzowu is 17 years old and was born in Kpando Averme. He is now staying with his uncles in Kpando Torkor, a fishing community. Wisdom is known as Efo (elder brother) by the other children at HardtHaven. Wisdom wanted the opportunity to talk about him self. ..
“The names of my parents are Mr. Christopher Adzowu and Madam Grace Hobenu all of blessed memories. I was born on the 26th April 1990 at Obuasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. I am fair in complexion and about 4'.6" in height. I have quite a normal head and round face.
I and my parents stayed at Obuasi for several years. Some years later my father become very ill and my mother became sick because of my father's sickness, on the 21st June 2001. Six months after his sickness he died. From that time my mother become sad and did not know to take care of us. She began party trading for some time. I was in class 6 (grade 6) in 2004 when my mother contracted an illnesses including elephantiasis, headpins and foot worm, our grandmother came over to stay with us until our mother became better on the 11th December 2004. Our grandmother returned back to the village after a year of staying with us. On the 28th of March 2007 my mother's sickness returned and her condition did not improve. At that time I was also studying to write my final Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). My life was divided between my mother’s sickness and my learning. On the 3rd of April 2007 my mother died. I become sad and worried about my education,
More students to be posted soon!
