July 19, 2019. Click here to read full story… This past weekend, the Year of Return team joined Maurice Cheetham and his group Africa Greek Week at BASICS International in Chorkor for some community service activities with the youth. BASICS is a non-profit organisation in the USA and an NGO in Ghana. They are a social […]
Read more stories from our May newsletter: http://basicsinternational.org/may-2020-newsletter/ CAMP PROMISE , a fresh air sleep away camp; a home away from home; for children during long school breaks and holidays. An eco-friendly serene, refreshing and welcoming environment which will offer 150 children an experience of a lifetime over and over. Promise CAMP/CAMP PROMISE will expose children […]
With help and assistance from individuals and the international community, we are able to supply food items and clean drinking water to senior citizens and children in the Chorkor community. At the beginning of each week, our team prepares food bags by sorting and packaging them for delivery. On the day of delivery which is […]
Adding some beats to the new tune learnt today! Flute session with Dela Botri a renowned and talented Ghanaian Highlife and Jazz musician.During this COVID-19 pandemic period, with consent and permits from the Department of Social Welfare will be operating and attending to children in the Chorkor community providing meals daily, food boxes on the weekend […]
Dane and Chari from World Peace Connection visited Ghana this year and Aunty Pat shared stories with them about her Journey to Ghana and how she connects with her community in Chorkor, and her global community.
Our chess team is in need of your support; to the cost in attending more competitions, purchase chess materials ( books, clocks and more boards) and hiring a chess teacher ( as of date, our teachers have been on a voluntary basis).If you would like to make a donation Mobile money: 0277 512671 Paypal: paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/1347773 […]
DOWNLOAD OUR MARCH 2020 NEWSLETTER HERE Here’s a little of what you’ll be reading about this month.. Say it Loud is one of our major Friday activities here at B.A.S.I.CS. This is usually the time where children have the chance to discuss and deliberate on personal, social and economic issues affecting their families, community and […]
We are curious how many know what this means ? We experience it a lot in #ghana and when you have no #generator or #solar you are simply in the dark. #poverty has different looks. #underdevelopment has many faces but no electricity has many names and #dumsor is one. #accra #economics #nochoices #africa. Check out what wikipedia has to say about it… In Ghana, dumsor (Akan pronunciation: [dum sɔ] ‘off and […]
Check out stories from BASICS this November. Download our PDF here! We want to highlight a piece of poetry Jasmine wrote this month. We think it’s pretty neat! I AM SORRY I’m going to say am sorry.It’s time for this quarrel to end.I know we didn’t mean it,And each of us misses a friend.It is […]
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