July 2010
You have to check this inspiring movie!
The Youth Service Initaitive teams worked with us in March 2010 in Ghana and they made a movie with all their impressions. Like if you are there expiericing what they have experienced. Patrick German, team leader from the YSI Utrecht team made this film. Patrick thank you very much!
Did this gain your interest? Check our volunteer page about volunteering in Ghana.
A new leaflet is designed with short explanations and pictures. Download the document and get inspired!
From July 20th till July 23th Maurits Vonck will 
walk 50 kilometres each day during the 'famous Nijmeegse Vierdaagse' for Ghana! Everyone who will sponsor this run will support our beekeeping project. We will use this to be able to equip the Organic Honey Centre and to train the beekeepers further in business management and in producing quality honey.
We are proud and grateful that Maurits is willing till he get blisters and heavily aching muscles all for the good purpose. So thank you very much Maurits!
Off course he needs support to stay motivated and to hold on till the end! Therefore I kindly appeal to you all to sponsor him! Each amount is welcome off course. So please fill in the signing up list (see attachment) and send it back to Maartje Bos (maartje_bos@hotmail.com)
We will keep you posted on the progress!
For daily live updates of his progress check here and fill in his hiking number 50-f-294.
Thank you very much!
This weekend (19-20 June) Community will be represented on the Haarlem Hout Festival. This is a multicultural festival with culinair multicultiral food, performances and a Millenium Development Goals Square on sunday. On this square we (Foundation Ghana Haarlem, Foundatoin Beesupport and Korczak Ghana workgroup will have a stand where we will organize many activities related to the millenium goal: 'equal rigths of women and children and persons with disabilities' on to our After School Programs in Ghana. Saterday will be the 'hout night' and together with Haarlem Mutare we will promote African football (Ghana-Australie will play at 16.00 hrs!!) and also organize some activities. The hout night is meant for youngsters organized by youngsters, so especially young people and Ghanaians are very much welcome!
The Haarlem Hout festival is a free and famous festival which you cannot miss! Check also the website Haarlem Hout Festival for more information and see press release for more information about the hout night.
On the 20th of May Maartje Bos joined the Young Professionals Event with Ellen Michaelis from Beesupport. The 1% club offered us this opportunity and Geertje de Man co-facilitated our brainstorm sessions. We are grateful for this opportunity and the output was great. We gained some new ideas and got a lot of inspiration. Our main focus was to get marketing ideas on how to extend our honey products market in Ghana and how to create new connections in the Netherlands. See also our project task on the 1%club
We will organize a follow up session in June so we can really bring all the ideas into practice. And last but not least, the painter of the event made a beautiful drawing:
Together we make a different as Young Professionals! Thanks you YPMTD (Young Professionals Make the difference) for this great iniative! It has given us a lot of inspiration!
With help of the 1%club 20 beneficiaries have been supported to start with their beekeeping business. In the end of May/beginning of June (when the season is there) 150 women and young peope will receive a beehive + protecting cloths. In total 106 people have supported our project and we are very proud of it! It is great that this new type of network helps us to connect with people.
We are happy and grateful that the 1%club helped with achieving this aim! Thank you 
With great thanks to our CPYWD volunteer Janka Burtzlaff (volunteer from Germany in Ghana December 2009/Februari 2010) we present you with pride our brand new promotion video. Check the video:
Janka, thank you so much for your efforts, the video is truly beautiful!
Spread the news and show everyone the video!
In the last two years Youth Service Initiative (YSI) has build playgrounds near 4 schools together with the volunteers from the local community. The cooperation with these schools has grown stronger and especially for the younger children going to school has become more attractive. There is a significant growth in the number of children going to school now. This is because of the playgrounds, but also the after school program.
The goal for the project in 2010 is to make a start with the realisation of a children’s and youth centre. (Youth Discovery Centre). This will be a three year program with different fases. The primary goal for the youth centre is to offer a place for children and youth where they can play safe and free and are able to develop themselves.
Also teaching materials are brought to this central point and training sessions and conferences will be organised to raise the level of education in this area. The centre will be very important for CPYWD to renew the methods of learning and education in a more democratic way. Young people get access to more organised activities for their spare time, which is also helpful in reaching their future goals. In the centre there will workshops organised so things they learn in theory can be brought into practice. Science for instance they learn from books, the centre has the possibilities to give practical lessons as well.
In 2010 16 YSI members will go to Ghana and help to build the first part of the centre. They will also organise activities for the children. But funds are still needed to be able to start the construction work. Via the 1%club you can leave any small donation and at the same time you are promoting our project (see news item below about the 1%club). Download the full proposal to see on which project we will be working on.
Thank you very much, YSI and the children of the communities will be very grateful. After the trip we will show you the results! Download also the full proposal to see what we will be working on.
On the 27th of March the YSI teams will go to Ghana for 2 weeks with the ambition to work on the construction of the Discovery Centre (see also projects). For the rest YSI will also join workshops and seminars with youngsters, students and other people from the communities, organize sport activities together, participate in the afterschool programs and have a lot of fun! All of this will organized and facilitated by CPYWD.
Are you getting interested? The Discovery Centre project is also online on the one%club, see http://www.1procentclub.nl/projects/partnershipdiscoverycenter. If you become a member of the 1%club, you can give a personal donation to our project. At this moment it is not sure yet if we will have enough funds to start with the Discovery Centre project, so your donation will have a big impact!
Thank you very much!
On Friday the 27th of February, our partner organization Youth Service Initiative organized a dinner at ‘Resto van Harte’ in Utrecht. It was a great success and a nice film was made. Sense the atmosphere by watching the video
