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Periclean Scholars – Ghana Program, Class Résumé

OVERVIEW OF OUR CLASS Since our founding in April 2007, our members, together with our US-based partners, have raised over $120,000 in cash and supplies to support health and education projects in Ghana (85%) and the USA (15%). Our members include: 29 students from Elon University’s class of 2010, 12 students from the classes of 2012-2016, and one faculty adviser. … Continue Reading

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Alumna’s Campus Visit Prompts Mini Reunion

A visit to NC from GA by one of our members, Alison Brooks (’10), prompted a mini reunion for our Ghana class. On February 17, 2014 seven of us enjoyed dinner at Dan Thai restaurant on South Church Street in Burlington. Dan Thai was selected because for years our class held profit-sharing events there, often on Reading Day at the … Continue Reading

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The Kpoeta Health Center: A Truly Sustainable Project

A few weeks ago our class learned that the Government of Ghana will post a midwife to the Health Center the Ghana Pericleans built in partnership with the people of Kpoeta, Ghana between April 2007 and January 2009. The midwife’s addition, in December 2013, will bring the Health Center’s full-time government-paid staff to four (two nurses, one staff member, and … Continue Reading

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