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June 2006

GHANA – GCP Ghana staff presented food items, clothes, cooking oil, washing powder, soap and bags of rice to several widows in the Greater Accra, Ghana area at an event sponsored by Hope for Widows Foundation, a local NGO in Ghana. The items were donated to 28 widows in the Kwashikuman community which is approx 60 km from Accra Central, the capital of Ghana.

GHANA – Our organization donated children’s books to B.A.S.I.C.S International, which is another non-government organization (NGO) in Ghana working with youth.

GHANA – The GCP General Manager met with leaders and the community of Afiana which is a mountain village in the Western Region of Ghana. Learning materials, toothbrushes, and toothpaste were distributed to the children of Afiana and the Nyame-Dddae community.

GHANA-The Executive Director from the USA visited the Teshie-Nungua AMA JSS1 School while the GCP Ghana staff completed a Health and STD Awareness presentation for the JSS 1 students. The youth were eager to learn and participated in the lesson and discussion concerning the transmission and prevention of various diseases including, HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis and other sexually transmitted diseases. The youth then participated in a Q & A session and various kids won Global Civic Preservation t-shirts. Presentation materials distributed to the students and school faculty by GCP were from the U.S. Center of Disease Control (CDC). We also distributed several promotional items with our logo (pens, pencils, Frisbee flyers, rulers, balloons, etc.) to the students.

GHANA – Career counseling to students of AMA-1 JSS final year students in Teshie –Nungua metropolis during the recent BECE examination. GCP distributed learning materials to students of AMA #1 school.

The GCP Executive Director and Ghana staff met with the chief leader and opinion leaders of Wassa Dunkwa in the Western Region of Ghana. Clothes, toothpaste, tooth brushes, books, pens, pencils were distributed to the community of Wassa Dunkwa. We are in the development stages of assisting the community with building school facilities and a recreational center that are safe and conducive to learning and development.

USA - Metro-Atlanta students visited Washington D.C. (the nation’s capital) during Spring Break. While in Washington D.C. the youth were led on a guided tour of the Jefferson Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, The Smithsonian Museums, The Capitol and viewed the White House (North and South). The youth also experienced Fun Park an amusement center in Fredericksburg, VA, went to Potomac Mills Mall and went to the movies.