With an ambitious strategy in place to scale our work, and a commitment to Ghanaian leadership, this year we embarked on expanding our international boards. We are thrilled to now share that we have appointed three fantastic new board...
We were delighted to host our second group of AECOM Ghana Exchange volunteers last month, who travelled out to Ghana to support our Building Better Schools programme. Hear all about what the group got up to during their ten...
The Ghana Exchange Volunteer Trip was developed to support our Building Better Schools programme, specifically the Improved Learning Environments project which applies aspects of our core model school design to existing government schools, including outdoor learning areas, playgrounds...
We are thrilled to announce that our volunteer Education Advisor Sonya, has been shortlisted for a Third Sector Excellence Award for ‘Volunteer of the Year’. The winners will be announced at an Award Ceremony in September so watch this...
Seven days, one notebook, one head torch, one camera, eight rehydration sachets and a new way to spend a holiday By Charlotte Norton, May 2016 We stopped behind a van with a sign across the back stating, ‘I...
Meet Sophie and Olivia Davies, sisters from the UK, currently volunteering in Ghana to support our projects. Sophie and Olivia were keen to learn more about our work and to experience life in Ghana. They have been providing valuable...
Comfort Acheampong was born and schooled in Ghana, in the Ashanti Region and trained as a teacher and also taught in Ghana for four years. At aged 32, Comfort moved to the UK and has been working as...
Sharon Quigley, Graduate Structural Engineer in AECOM’s Dublin office tells us about her two weeks volunteering in Ghana. “I have wanted to carry out volunteer construction work for some time so when I heard about AECOM’s partnership with Sabre...
Josh Mickelburgh, UK based History Teacher shares his experiences of three weeks volunteering in Ghana. Towards the end of my first year as a History teacher in a thriving and extremely busy secondary school in East London I...
Tsanko Dimov is spending two months volunteering in Ghana and is keeping us updated whilst he is there – we hope you enjoy his second blog post! I don’t know how it has happened, but 3 weeks have...