Previous Projects
Stocking a rural library
The Yonso Project began with a book drive. In the spring and summer of 2007, students in the US collected a total of 10,000 pounds of schoolbooks on their college campuses to send to Ghana. The books were destined for the school library in Yonso, which was badly in need of materials to fill its shelves. Because the drive was such a success, its organizers decided to found the Yonso Project as a way of supporting education in Ghana over the longer term. (You can read more about the book drive and the YP's origins
here.)
Pen pals
The YP's pen pal program was one of our great successes. We partnered with schools in the US and Ghana and Kiwanis clubs in the Boston area to link grade school children in classrooms in New England with children of the same age in Ghanaian schools. The children on both sides of the Atlantic were thrilled with the project, and almost 500 pen pal partnerships were eventually established! Unfortunately, due to the amount of time and resources its administration required -- and the fact that all Yonso Project members in the US are unpaid volunteers -- we found it unfeasible to continue operating the program. We are still seeking a way to reinstate it.
