Junior
Secondary Schools in the Ashanti Region of Ghana
Welcome to
National Gardening Association’s continuing report from Ghana.
Payson Bullard, our intrepid reporter from TechnoServe, is now
in Besease, Ashanti–in the south central region of Ghana. Take
out your maps and travel along as he meets a student in Holy
Spirit Preparatory JSS, a private "Junior Secondary" school.
Gloria
Ampomaa is 14 years old and in "form three," similar to America’s
7th grade. She attends a private "Junior Secondary" school with
her sister Diana. Gloria’s favorite subjects are science, Twi,
and French. To learn a few Twi phrases, visit the Communicating
with Ghanaians Web site.
The playground is used by both the Primary and Secondary
school students.
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Her school has a foreign
language teacher (most public schools have language teachers who
teach English and Twi), so Gloria can learn many different languages.
It takes Gloria about 15 minutes to walk to school each morning.
She lives in the town of Kwahu, where her family has a big farm.
They have goats, sheep, and chickens. They raise the chickens
to sell the eggs and newly-hatched chicks to other farmers.
Gloria's
family grows many crops, including cassava, maize, plantains,
cocoyam (like potato or taro–a root crop), and cocoa. If Gloria
could meet anyone in the world, it would be Kofi Annan, the
Secretary General of the United Nations and a native of Ghana.
She would ask his advice on how she, and others, could make
their country better and how he got his job. Click here to learn
more about the Secretary-General
of the United Nations.
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