Empowering Education, Health and Business to the People of West Africa
Here is a promo video for our 4th Annual 2010 Wechiau Girls Conference. Our group leaves the first week of August. We are expecting 600 girls to attend this 5 day conference. They are coming from over 30 villages.
AN AFRICAN SUMMER…
It’s September! Fall is on its way in and summer is just about over. And it was a great summer! Our team of twenty (from the U.S.) recently returned from our August journey to Ghana, West Africa. We held our 3rd annual Wechiau Girls Conference in the upper west region of the country. It’s a very remote area – some places just received electricity last year, although very many villages still don’t have any electricity at all. The nearest major city, Kumasi, is about 8 hours away… and the journey is not an easy one to drive. (In 2009, can you believe there are still places in the world without some of the basic things we take for granted here in the U.S.? We have a lot of work to do.)
We are currently preparing for our August 2009 Journey to Ghana. Our schedule includes our third annual Wechiau Girls Conference as well as checking on the building of our school.
For the conference, we are expecting 350 girls from over 19 different villages in some of the remotest parts of Ghana, West Africa. For five days, we will be teaching them about Literacy, Health, Music, Arts & Crafts, Dance and Physical Education. In this area, the children only get one meal a day. During our conference, we feed them breakfast, lunch and dinner. The girls’ excitement is contagious during the entire conference, but especially when they are eating.
Empowering the Next Generation
by: Allen Paul Weaver III
In 2003, when I went on my first mission trip to Africa, I asked myself: “What am I capable of doing? I’m only one person.” The task before our group was tremendous: four men carried in eight large bags of clothing, shoes, school supplies and Bibles to give out. Our group leader had traveled to Ghana for the first time six months earlier. It was all new to us and our misconceptions — often facilitated by American media — met with an altogether different reality. This year, I traveled with a group of 20 to Ghana, West Africa, again to give out clothing and school supplies, but also to provide key support for the residents’ education, health and business needs. Through donations of supplies and money, we’ve already spent over $200,000 to empower this global community.
Young boy sleeping in the streets of Weichau.
Helping to develop boys to men in a poverty stricken district.
This walking bridge was built by our AIM Foundation members in order to get children across to school during the rainy season.
Coming Together to Make a Difference.
Two Cecilias from two different worlds.
Planning and preparation for the first Internet cafe in Bonwire, Ghana.
After much hard work, the first internet cafe in Bonwire, Ghana is complete. More computers are needed. (Your support is needed)
The AIM team is planning its next trip which is scheduled for February 2008. We are already in the process of collecting items to fill a shipping container which will be here next month. Please help us make a difference in the lives of our Ghanaian sisters and brothers. Listed below you will find some of things we are asking for. This is not an exhaustive list, so feel free to donate other items that you think would be beneficial to them:
Clothing (new or gently used)
Undergarments (new)
Hygiene products (toothpaste, feminine care, etc…)
Shoes
The AIM Team is currently preparing for another mission to Ghana in August from the 5th to the 20th of this year.
Our primary Purpose is to:
Carry out a Girls Conference for over two hundred teenage girls, which will last four days.
We will bring:
*clothing
*school and medical supplies
*hygiene products
*thought-provoking entertainment
*the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Our secondary purpose is to continue to provide support for some of the schools and villages which we have visited in the past.
