Tamale, Kintampo, Tepa and Sefwi Wiawso!
After the workshop in Accra, our two HITA experts set off for Sefwi Wiawso in eastern Ghana and the first institution in the country with which HITA has been cooperating and working on the ground for several years. Margarete Acquaah, the new principal, and two of the teachers who have been in contact with HITA for 7 years joyfully welcomed the visit. A lot is being done, new student housing is being built on campus and it should be possible to house up to 1000 female students in 4-bed rooms in the next few years. The school is a single construction site: new classrooms, new accommodations for the students and even the auditorium continues to be built. New washrooms and even more adaptations are to be made in the near future to soon be able to train up to 1800 nurses and midwives. After another stretch of driving, the two finally arrive in Tepa at the HITA-known school principal Victoria Asamoah. HITA set up both the computer lab and a wiki for students and teachers there - and various exchange students from HITA were also stationed there. The director and the IT tutor showed the campus and especially the computer lab; everything is still as HITA had set it up years ago. Everything is still used and still works. The only difference from before is that the old computer furniture has been replaced with new. There are now 1300 male and female students studying in Tepa.
On Easter Sunday, we moved on to the next stop and a visit to the campus of the Nurses and Midwives College in Kintampo was on the agenda. This is perhaps the largest facility of its kind in Ghana and is also expected to become one of the schools that will be given a central role in the project due to its central location. There are about 2300 students studying in Kintampo, of which more than 1000 live on campus, the rest close to the city. The time was used to conduct interviews with students in the field and to gather practical information regarding the common use of mobile phones and their functions. The last stop took our experts to Tamale in northern Ghana. Another workshop was held here, inviting school principals and pedagogical teachers from the Upper West Region, the Upper East Region and the local region - the Nothern Region. Especially in the northern and rural areas of Ghana, there is a lot of potential and a great need for new, practical and meaningful solutions for knowledge transfer and its promotion. Participants not only embraced the ideas enthusiastically, but developed further opportunities for collaboration.
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