UK based charity Thrive Africa working within communities across Africa to create opportunity and improve Education, Health & Sanitation.
We thank you for selecting our school among your educational programme in Ghana.
We appreciated your effort of providing us library stalled with books.
We hope to stabilized our relationship with your organization in the future.
Thank you and our regards to your team members for their marvelous work done.
Samuel Oppong
Written by Sian Dewdney (2011) Thrive Africa Intern.
Ghana was a British colony until Ghana gained independence in 1957. Since the colonial era, education has been seen as way to encourage social and economical development. During the colonial era a formal education system was implemented in Ghana. Since Ghana gained independence Ghanaian governments have continued to implement a formal education system and tried to improve and increase the number of schools available. In the 1960s the Ghanaian government implemented a policy which made primary education free and mandatory. Currently in Ghana primary school education remains free. Primary school starts from the age of six, for six years and then continues for another three years of academic training combined with technical and vocational training. After basic school children can enter senior secondary school, following on to junior high school. School costs and payment for senior secondary and junior high school is expected to be provided by parents.
Towards the end of the 1980’s the Ghanaian government collaborated with the World Bank and the UN, they also collaborated with many other aid agencies to improve the education system. From 1980 the United Nations have implemented development programmes designed to support the most marginalised. The Millennium Development Goals set up by the United Nations in the 1990s provides targets for international development to be achieved by 2015. One of the goals set out is to “ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.” Through support from international development agencies, the Government are continuously working towards achieving basic education for all in Ghana, yet there are many problematic issues which affect the education system.
We are now collecting the old textbooks especially from 3rd year students will leave the university this year.Our plan is that we will sell the textbooks back in this coming academic year(2011-2012) to those who are in 2nd year recently and with the money that will be collected , we will donate 100% to the Thrive Africa to help the education process of kids in Africa. Although we are aiming for 3rd year students, all generous 1st year students and 2nd year students are welcomed for donations to help in education for Africa Kids instead of keeping the textbooks for selling back next year.
The two collections points are in UCL Engineering building (around the entrance ) and in communal area at the basement of UCL Drayton House (opposite the UCL Student Union building) . The collection dates are between 15th of May and 15th of June. So, plenty of time to come and donate the unwanted textbooks!! 
For more information, email Them at zcabf74@live.cs.ucl.ac.ukor thetmon4@gmail.com
Best Regads
UCL SIFE
The container which will hold an estimated 40,000 books and be used to fill the fifteen newly built libraries in Central/Northern Ghana is in need of books and volunteers to help load it.
We’re looking for a wide range of books and materials:
1. Summary
Ameliorate access to educational resources in schools through the building of libraries.
Provide factual, fictional and reference resources that aid in the delivery of the Ghana national curriculum and the end-users level of knowledge.
