“Mr. Chairman!” is how each student began their manifesto, explaining why they are the best candidate for the role in which they were running in the Challenging Heights School Prefect elections. As teachers at Challenging Heights School frantically cut ballots while children enjoyed their break time, candidates for five different school offices prepared themselves to […]
Press Release: 2nd October 2015 As we commemorate the International Day for Non-Violence, Challenging Heights is calling on schools and families to refrain from subjecting children to all forms of violence. Every day hundreds of children suffer violence in Ghana. The most common forms of violence against children are child labour, child trafficking, domestic slavery […]
“I never knew that volunteering could be a good way to get experience that will then get you a job.” Jonathan Anderson joined challenging heights in June of 2014 as part of the Advocates Programme. He learned about all aspects of CH, and then interned in the office with our Vice President and finance officer for […]
Advocating and education about children’s rights, making children aware of some hazardous child labour in other parts of the world, The World Children’s Prize awards superb leaders in the pursuit of rights for children, and also educates children themselves As Challenging Heights president, Dr. James Kofi Annan, was nominated for The World Children’s Prize in […]
Today, 20th September 2015, through Senya Police Service and Challenging Heights collaboration 5 children were potentially saved from being trafficked into forced labour. Human trafficking is morally wrong and strongly prohibited by the Human Trafficking Act, 2005 (Act 694), which makes it a criminal offense liable to imprisonment for a term of not less than […]
He wants to be a soldier and eventually launch a career in computer engineering. These goals of success and stability wouldn’t have been possible for Samuel just five years ago. It was then, in 2010, that Challenging Heights rescued this 14 year-old from slave labour on Lake Volta. He had spent most of his life […]
A busload of anxious children rides through Swedru, Winneba, and Senya. More than thirty child slaves completed an intensive rehabilitation programme at the Challenging Heights Hovde House Shelter and they’re on their way home, back to their families, back to school. Some children took classes and received therapeutic counselling for five months, while others needed […]
Challenging Heights condemns the current trend of delay and irregularity in the release of capitation grants to public schools in Ghana. We are therefore calling on Hon. Prof. Jane Opoku Mensah, the Minister of Education to ensure that the grant for this school’s terms is release immediately. Today, Tuesday, 8 September 2015, public schools have re-open. […]
School uniforms and classroom desks, cabinets and chairs, are sewn and built on site at Challenging Heights School. As teachers get ready for children to arrive for the next new school year, staff on all parts of campus are working hard in preparation. Richard is the Challenging Heights carpenter; he’s sawing, drilling and hammering everything […]
While school is out for August vacation, Challenging Heights School teachers gathered in the community library for a training session with Headmaster Eric Asamani. Titled “Positive Discipline and Classroom Management,” Asamani aimed to remind his teaching staff how their roles at Challenging Heights School is not just to teach material, but to set a good […]
