IFESH Teacher Training Program
Teacher volunteer Pauline Landrigan wanted to make a difference in education, so she signed on for a year-long program to help train teachers in the cocoa sector in Ghana. Pauline taught classes at the St. Joseph’s Teacher Training College in Bechem, Ghana, calling it, “an unbelievably rewarding experience.” Her efforts were so successful that the town’s traditional council offered her 10 acres of land to be used as a youth cooperative.
The Issue:
- Offering quality education encourages cocoa farming families to keep their children in school and strengthens cocoa-farming communities.
- Unfortunately, quality education is scarce in many West African cocoa communities.
Partners:
How World Cocoa Foundation Programs Help:
- With the support of the World Cocoa Foundation, the International Foundation for Education and Self-Help (IFESH) launched a multi-year program to improve the quality and accessibility of education in farming communities in Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast).
- The program focuses on teacher training and curriculum development.
- Launched in late 2005, the program already has trained 3,396 teachers and student teachers helping provide an improved quality of education for 137,033 primary and secondary school students.
Learn More:
August 2007 Progress to Date: IFESH Program
View maps of IFESH project locations in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana.
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