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Education

Programs Pathfinder students enjoying a photo opportunity / Ghana

are proud to note that Ghana?s
Education Service ranks 350 Students
Pathfinder as 4th out of 20 0 educated per
public and private schools in the
district (and 2nd out of the 87 year
private schools). Pathfinder has a
holistic and progressive SCHOLARSHIPS FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS
educational philosophy, using
unique teaching strategies and
PARTNER providing for complementary
ORGANIZATION physical education programs
(there too the school has enjoyed
AYD / GHANA success, winning trophies in
sports such as soccer and
volleyball, among others!).
PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY However, even as the school
continues to grow, it faces
Founded in 2012, a partnership
funding shortfalls as the
between AYD and Blue Kitabu,
government does not give any Delphine's senior picture / Kenya
Pathfinder International
financial support. The GO Fund
Academy was named by the Since 2015, the GO Fund has
continues to support this
For over eight years GO Fund children at the Home for Hope. successful school, helping to been providing scholarships to
Funded in recent years by GO
has been supporting children create the next generation of women and girls to complete
Fund support, in 2017 it
living with HIV whose parents Ghanaian scholars. their higher level education. In
celebrated its fifth anniversary.
have been unable to afford recent years we have given out
The first enrollment consisted of
medicines and treatment. AYD eight scholarships to women and
80 students from primary school
helped identify the families that girls in Tanzania, Ghana and
needed the most support, and grades one through four. The Kenya. One young scholar is
school has since added
GO Fund financed their
preschool through kindergarten, Maggie from Ghana, who
medicines and food supplies
and classes through middle received support through senior
monthly to ensure these
school up to grade nine. high school and is now applying
children had the best chance
possible to lead healthy and As of September 2018, there for teacher training college.
productive lives. were 350 students enrolled, with Delphine from Kenya
One such boy who began 19 teachers, one headmaster graduated with a teaching
receiving support at age 11 is and four non-teaching staff. The Pathfinder student with text book / Ghana degree from university in 2018
school prepares students for
now at university pursuing a and we are speaking to her
high school qualifying exams,
technical degree. His sister, who about running our programs in
with all June 2017 graduating
is also HIV positive, is now Kenya.
students passing the exam! We
finishing senior high school.
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