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Periclean Scholars – Ghana Program

We are 42 members of the Elon community (41 student, 1 faculty) committed to building sustainable partnerships

Webpage:http://org.elon.edu/pericleanscholars2010

To support our projects contact: In Ghana contact: Dr. Heidi G. Frontani, Campus Box 2335, Elon, NC 27244 Dr. Francis Amedahe

Tel: (336) 278-6462; E-mail: glaesel@elon.edu Email: fkamedahe@yahoo.com

PROJECTS

Kpoeta Health Services Planning Center April 2007-Present

Enabled 10,000 rural Ghanaians in Kpoeta-Ashanti region to have year-round access to healthcare through a community partnership that resulted in the construction and staffing of the Kpoeta Community Clinic that opened in January 2009
Enlarged the clinic complex in 2010 to include housing for Government of Ghana paid medical staff
Incorporated into the Government of Ghana’s healthcare network in 2011, enabling the Center to receive regular shipments of medical supplies from Ghana’s Ministry of Health and additional staff

Sokode Kindergarten

Responded to community request for a large multi-room kindergarten with amenities to supplement the current basic one-room building. Construction of the structures is underway.

Heifer International’s Livestock and Beekeeping Project #21-1037-01 Jan. 2008-Jan. 2010

Raised nearly 6% of the funds needed for a $247,869 project that provided 113 families in Sokode and Kpedze with bees and small edible animals called grasscutters and training on how to breed them

Sokode Schools and Abor Elementary School Libraries Sept. 2007-Present

Engaged in book drives and school supply drives that added 500-Afro-centric books for children to the Abor Elementary School library and over 500 novels and textbooks to Sokode school libraries
Our partnerships enabled all items to be delivered free of charge (school supplies via the WT Ghana program and books via the US Navy)

Elon Footprints of Africa Festival Nov. 27-Dec. 1, 2007

Hosted guests Dr. Roger Gocking (author of The History of Ghana), Different Drum (musical group), Healing Force (offering African dance lessons), HIV/AIDS activists Dr. Jane Stevens (Kenya) and Anita Isaacs (Namibia), our campus Gospel Choir and others to raise awareness of the culture, history, and medical issues facing Ghana and Africa

Solar Cooker Initiative Nov. 2009-Jan. 2010

We demonstrated the use of these alternative energy devices at Elon and in Kpoeta and Sokode

PARTNERSHIPS

Elon University’s Ghana Winter Term Abroad Program Jan. 2008-Present
Dr. Francis Amedahe and the Kpoeta Development Association (Ghana) April 2008-Present
Local Elon and Burlington Businesses (more than a dozen) Jan. 2008-Present
St. Andrews Church, TN and United First Methodist, TN Jan. 2008-Dec. 2009
First Presbyterian Church (Raleigh, NC) 2009-Present
U.S. Navy’s Project Handclasp 2009-Present
Duke University’s Medical Warehouse 2011-Present
Elon Partners in International Development, Friends of Ghana Chapter 2011-Present

FUNDRAISING

Grants

$10,000 from Johnson & Johnson for a drug store and medical supplies for the Health Services Center
$5,200 Fund for Excellence Grant in the Arts & Sciences, for ‘Footprints of Africa’
$4,000 Course Enhancement Grant from Project Pericles, NY Office
$3,000 from the Strickland Foundation

General fundraising

$56,000 for the construction of Health Community Services Center Complex in Kpoeta, Ghana.
$21,800 from Ghanaian partners, including: the Government of Ghana for nurses’ salaries, and community fundraisers in Kpoeta and Sokode
$14,500 raised for Heifer International’s Livestock and Beekeeping Project #21-1037-01
$8,050 in medical supplies from Duke University
$5,500 for a kindergarten in Sokode, Ghana, mostly from First Presbyterian
$3,000 for campus speakers: John Prendergast, of the Enough Project, on the Darfur crisis and Keri Willever and Dr. Augustus Vogel, former Peace Corps volunteers in Ghana
$3,500 for books for Abor Elementary School in Ghana, school supplies for children in Sokode, Ghana, and a solar cooker initiative in Kpoeta and Sokode
1,250 for miscellaneous items including thank you notes and printing Ghana discount cards

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

Awards

Half of all Elon University Truman Award Finalists, ever (3 members)
Lumen Prize winners (8 members), Phi Beta Kappa inductees (6 members), Honors Fellows (7 members), Elon College Fellows (4 members), Leadership Fellows (3 members), Communications Fellows (2 members), Black Excellence Award winners (3 members), Monroe Award winners (3 members)

Publications

Published internationally/internationally in: Africa Media Review (3 members), Progress in Development Studies, Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, and African Studies Quarterly (2 members each)
Published at the campus or local level for work on Ghana, Africa, or the Diaspora in Visions Magazine (4 members), The Pendulum (3 members), Colonnades (2 members), BA/BS (1 member), Elon Journal of Undergrad Research in Communications (1 member), Greensboro News and Record (1 member), The Mercury, a PA newspaper, (1 member), Voyages Magazine (1 member), Richmond Free Press Magazine (1 member), Black Oaks Newsletter (1 member)

Presentations

Other

Award-winning Tobacco King documentary about race relations in Zambia (1 member)
Faculty mentor installed as honorary “Queen Mother” of development for the village of Kpoeta by its people in recognition of her and the Ghana Pericleans’ effective work
Study abroad in Ghana for winter term (14 members) or a semester (4 members) or study/travel elsewhere in Africa (12 members)
A book group online with rotating members that has kept mentor, alums, and on-campus members connected academically. 15 members have discussed: The Strength in What Remains, about a Burundian medical student who builds a clinic in his hometown, Africa: A Practical Guide for Global Health Workers, and/or Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do

PAN-PERICLEAN FIRSTS & LEGACIES

Wrote the original Handbook for Periclean Faculty and Students
Received Elon administration approval to get Pericleans names on the graduation program
Created the Pan-Periclean Pledge and revised it in collaboration with other classes
Wrote a successful appeal to administration to have the country of study selected in advance
First class to admit students (11) from different graduating years for sustainability purposes
Created the first Periclean discount cards (Ghana Cards) for use at local businesses
First class to have formal individual and group 3-year plans, and first to include an academic essay and an interview as part of the selection process
First class to host all-Periclean SURF panels (two) that focused on our country of study