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Project Summary

The purpose of Anansi NGO is to provide funding for West African students from small villages to attend secondary school, assisting those families who do not have sufficient funds to continue their child's education. Special consideration will be given, but not limited to, female students to support the effort to change traditional attitudes regarding the education of girls and women in West Africa.


Funding will be provided for qualifying students in the following ways:

  1. Directly linking students with sponsors who have disposable income and want to pay school fees and boarding costs. Sponsors will have direct contact with the student or students they are funding.

  2. Holding an Anansi West African Art Auction in the United States annually which will feature paintings by contemporary African artists, African fabrics by batik artists as well as manufactured textiles, other traditional African designs and African wood carvings and/or bronze castings.

  3. Providing trained African guides for tourists who need help while visiting West Africa. The fee for this guide service will be split 60/40 between the guide and Anansi student funding.

  4. Proceeds from the operation of Anansi Bed and Breakfast in Mpeasem/Cape Coast,Ghana.

  5. Placing volunteers in and around Cape Coast, Ghana, in hospitals, on farms, in orphanages, and in schools. A percentage of the placement fees for volunteers will go to Anansi student funding.

The procedure for selecting the students to be funded will vary from year to year. Selection will involve the input of teachers and the Head Master or Mistress of each village school. A home visit by one of the Anansi NGO board members will be conducted for prospective recipients of an Anansi Scholarship to verify need.

Students awarded a three-year Anansi Secondary School Scholarship based on their qualifying test score and verifiable family need, will agree to maintain satisfactory academic achievement each term; inform benefactors of academic progress; and refrain from requesting any gifts or additional money from benefactors.

Anansi board members include Alisa Roe of Portland, Oregon, USA, Nana Hanson of Cape Coast, Ghana, Cecilia Quaracoo of Cape Coast, Ghana, and Kathryn Roe of Mpeasem/Cape Coast and Bellingham, Washington, USA.

This first year, 2005/2006, Anansi is funding six students from the village of Mpeasem located four miles north of Cape Coast, Ghana: Benjamin Sam, John Nkrumah, Robert Quansah, Felila Ibrahim, Gladys Essoun, and Doris Essoun. These students are attending five different secondary schools located in the Central Region of Ghana. Their funding comes from U.S. sponsors, Marvin and Anna Marie Meyer of Chicago, Illinois, Larry and Alisa Roe of Portland, Oregon, Stephen and Mavis Roe of Woodinville, Washington, and Kathryn Roe of Bellingham, Washington.

ABOUT KATHRYN ROE
My name is Kathryn Glesne Reitan Roe. My first trip to West Africa was during a sabbatical in the fall of 1997 while teaching full time at Whatcom Community College, Bellingham, Washington, USA. I returned in 1999 to plan the Whatcom African Study Project which was successfully realized in 2000. Prior to the African Project, I planned and implemented study programs in both Mexico and France for Whatcom Community College. As a retired person, I now teach part time at Whatcom during spring and summer and spend fall and winter months in Cape Coast, Ghana. I love West Africa with its colors, art and very special people

 

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Kathryn Roe
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