Last week, Ma, my principal, and Papa, the assistant principal and chaplain, have been taking use to various places to meet people. This week Betsy and I have been much more busy with the Teacher Resource Center. Here is a picture from the Teacher Resource Center where we will be holding classes on creating Teacher Learning Materials (TLMs) and hosting workshops for teachers in the community on various topics. Betsy and I set out to create an inventory of all of the items in the Resource Center on an Excel document (thanks for the idea Jessie). So between logging in books we would move a few things around. The IFESH volunteer before us, Erica, had done a fantastic job with the place- so not much was changed.
Since the World Cocoa Foundation is one of our partners were are asked to think of how we can use available resources to create TLM’s. I can’t wait to see what great things we think to create.
This week we also got a chance to visit another Cocoa Farm in a town around 30 minutes from Agogo. Agogo Presbyterian Training College has partnered with woman in the community to create a soap making business. It is very interesting. Betsy and I will be working with these woman to find funding to finance another building for them to expand the operation. Here I have a picture of the woman boiling the soda created from the filtered water from cocoa husk ash. The boiling takes about four days. It is a very long and interesting process. We plan to see more of the process next week.
Above Papa, the assistant principal, is exiting the soap making building. Papa hopes that we can build another building this year. Wish us luck!
Also- "A Day in the Life of Alison is Agogo" is going to be coming soon!
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