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 […]
Challenging Heights is happy to acknowledge that the Motor Transport and Traffic Directive (MTTD) of Ghana Police Service in Senya Beraku in the Central Region has complied with the directives of Ghana’s Inspector General of Police (IGP) to screen vehicles for child trafficking. Challenging Heights is therefore calling on all police officers, especially at various […]
After a press conference with Ghana Police which launched the “Turn Back Human Trafficking” campaign, the Challenging Heights Advocacy Team is pounding the pavement, making sure our message is heard by travellers and traffickers. “I support Ghana to be a child trafficking free country,” is one slogan meant to warn anyone who wants to send children to […]
Bright-eyed, but quiet and nervous, twenty-two students from Challenging Heights School split up into groups of four and cautiously stepped onto the elevator at West Hills Mall in Weija, just outside Ghana’s capital, Accra. The mall would be considered up-scale in any modern country, but for these students, tiled floors and air conditioning was a […]
Challenging Heights calls on Ghana Police to deliver on their commitment to stop children being trafficked across Ghana, with the upcoming school vacation known to be the season when many children are taken into forced labour on Lake Volta. Exactly one year ago this week the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) conducted a raid along Accra-Kumasi road in […]
All 55 children currently being cared for at the Challenging Heights Hovde House were taken on a day-long excursion to their nation’s capital. Staff accompanied the boys and girls, who had not too long ago, been working in dangerous conditions as slave labour on Lake Volta. The group first made their way to the Kotoka […]
“We are the money watchmen! The ‘money security act.’” Gilbert Oduroh says he and his colleague, Cecilia Donkoh, take care of figures. He’s a numbers guy. She loves the problem solving. The duo makes up the Challenging Heights Finance Department, writing budgets, preparing payment vouchers and reporting back to our esteemed donors. Cecilia says she […]
“It’s a great feeling ‘cause you get the chance to transform someone who has never been to school before, and you see such a child writing his or her name, it’s amazing.” The life of a social worker at the Challenging Heights Hovde House Rehabilitation Shelter is more than checking in on a child every […]
