Kanaka School Project

Kanaka School Project

The Kanaka School’s aim is to provide quality education – from day-care and Primary school until professional education level – for children, youth and adults, in a remote rural area where no other similar school operates. The project opened doors in 2010 in Domeabra, a village of about 20,000 people and aims to become economically sustainable. Christiana Frimpong, the founder, started the project in 1997 when her father died, and she went back to her hometown and with the land she inherited, her life savings and some private donations she started construction. The school was her way to change the way education was seen in Ghana. She wanted to help children learn to become independent with the right set of skills, so they could grow in life. She wanted to fight the habit of teenagers becoming dropouts or becoming pregnant at an early age by encouraging education. She wanted to bring some of the values she had learnt in The Netherlands to bring about change in her home region in Ghana.

Eduction for children and students

What characterizes Kanaka is that the school can accommodate both primary/junior high as well as vocational students (government license obtained in 2020). The school is close to becoming self-sustainable by earning a small profit on extra services offered to the vocational students and using that profit to pay for the school.

Kanaka & A4C

A4C has been supporting Kanaka School Project since 2013. The ultimate objective was and still is to give access to education in a region where there are not many alternatives. By doing so, Kanaka also hopes to prevent teenagers getting pregnant and have children at a very young age and instead help them get a proper job in the future. Before the school was opened most of the children would stop their education after primary school and take up non-skilled and low paid jobs, mostly in agriculture-related activities. Having an official diploma in a profession will open doors for further development improving the living standards for young individuals, their family and their community.

A4C has a good relationship with the Frimpong family who are all so very passionate about the school and all the progress that has been made over the years.

We need your support

With all the projects we support, there is always more there can be done. Perhaps you have something that can be donated that may help them. This depends from project to project but can include: time, equipment, (school) materials, involvement or long term commitment from you or your company. Contact us if you want to help.