{"id":377341,"date":"2017-11-24T17:18:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T17:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=377341"},"modified":"2017-11-25T16:32:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T16:32:41","slug":"generations-peace-ydi-ghana-partner-impact-lives-st-peters-mission-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/generations-peace-ydi-ghana-partner-impact-lives-st-peters-mission-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Generations For Peace, YDI-Ghana partner to impact lives at St. Peters Mission School"},"content":{"rendered":"
Generations For Peace – Jordan, and its local partner organisation Youngstars Development Initiative – Ghana, has established a GFP club at the St. Peters Mission School, a private basic and secondary school at Ashaley Botwe in the Adentan Municipality of the Greater Accra Region, to lead a\u00a0massive behavioural change campaign among children and the youth.<\/p>\n
The decision to establish the GFP club, according to the Country Director of Youngstars Development Initiative, YDI-Ghana, Naa Adei Boateng, follows successes chalked through the use of sports-based games as a vehicle for integrated education which has led to massive behavioural change among children and the youth.<\/p>\n
Generations For Peace believes the successes chalked must not be allowed to fade away hence the formation of the GFP Club; the first of its kind in Ghana.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThrough the GFP school club, we intend to empower the members with skills (economic empowerment skills) which would go a long way with them (even after their graduation from the school) using empowerment for peace\u201d, said Naa Adei Boateng, YDI\u2019s Country Director.<\/p>\n
According to Adei Boateng, the administration of the club would be premised on two functions.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst, creating an enabling environment to develop and improve club members\u2019 skills in understanding, practicing and sharing expressions of change (i. e. Taking responsibility, developing respect etc) using sport.<\/p>\n
It is the observation of the implementing team that through this first approach, members of the club continue developing values consistent with the GFP brand (and this principle is of very dear interest).\u201d<\/p>\n
The GFP club, the founders say, will be more practical in its engagements, as it intends to equip members to make meaningful contributions to society.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Director of the St. Peters Mission School, Dr. Moses Adu-Gyimah, has expressed appreciation to Generations for Peace and its local partner, Youngstars Development Initiative \u2013 Ghana, for their consistent efforts in changing the lives of many of his wards.<\/p>\n