Special Annual Projects/Programmes
Communications Plus Workshop
Background
Communication skills are fundamental to success, inside or outside of school or the workplace. The African Chamber for Youth Development hosts the Communications Plus Workshop free of charge for emerging young leaders in some selected senior high schools in Ghana to equip them with basic communication skills essential for enhancing their leadership capacity.
The Communications Plus Workshop seeks to equip young people with the communications skills needed to enable them effectively articulate their thoughts/views/opinions and ideas on how to make the society a better place. This training ultimately makes these young people become better leaders in their schools and in the community at large. Beyond obviously developing spoken and written communication skills through our Communications Plus Workshop, we invariably help the students to also develop their thinking and debating skills.
Ultimately, Communications Plus Workshop seeks to help participants to develop their own voice in the world with which to share their thoughts, opinions, and ideas using the communications skills acquired through the training we provide.
Target Audience: Students in Senior Secondary Schools in Ghana (16yrs – 19yrs)
Schools Visited so far
- Achimota Senior High School
- Adisadel College
- Pope John’s Senior Secondary School
- Presbyterian Boys Senior Secondary School
- St Thomas Aquinas Senior Secondary School
National Youth Boot Camp
The National Youth Development Boot Camp (NYDBC) is a 3 day-camp meeting that will bring together senior high school graduates who just participated in the 2019 WASSCE to adequately prepare them for life post Senior High School. After three years in the senior high school system, students will be exposed to the ‘real world’ and essentially adulthood begins for them.
This camp meeting with equip these young ones with the knowledge, skills, and the right mindset that will make them strategically advantaged to make the right choices and decisions in the ‘real adult world’.
Tertiary Institutions Tour
Flying Colours Project
FLYING COLOURS Project 2020 is a training and capacity building tour in some selected Senior High Schools in Ghana. This project will engage with final year students in the selected Senior High Schools to equip the students with information, knowledge and inspiration that will encourage them to study very hard so that they will pass the WASSCE with FLYING COLOURS.
The FLYING COLOURS is in line with SDG Goal 4: Quality education, ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all
Objectives of FLYING COLOURS Project 2020
- To inspire final year students to study hard and pass their WASSCE with FLYING COLOURS
- To introduce final year students to career options and opportunities available to them post WASSCE
- To set up the FLYING COLOURS Project 2020 Excellence Awards Scheme to reward top-performing students who excel at the WASSCE
The A-League Consult in partnership with the African Chamber for Youth Development launched the A-LEAGUE LEADERS Project.
This project is aimed at raising a new generation of dynamic and impact-driven African Leaders. A-LEAGUE LEADERS Project is targeted at school prefects and Student Representative Council (SRC) leaders in the senior high schools in Africa starting from Ghana.
These student leaders are taken through a rigorous and practical leadership training workshop that essentially introduces the concept of effective and impactful leadership to these young leaders.
The beneficiaries of this training will be put into a network where they will receive mentorship and leadership coaching for the next 5 years after which they will graduate into mentors and coaches to give back to the A-LEAGUE LEADERS Project.