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News from Nyimdzi Foundation
We are excited to share with you news from the charity that we support on a regular basis – the Nyimdzi Foundation for Community Learning. The Highland Chocolatier has already signed a Deed of Participation with Cocoa Horizons to ensure our cacao is traded ethically, but we also give back a portion of our income every year to a cacao growing country that is vicariously supporting all our own livelihoods.
The Nyimdzi Foundation for Community Learning is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to releasing the potential of young people to contribute to the betterment of society. The Foundation facilitates the establishment of community and school-based educational activities that enrich academics and give youth the practical skills and understanding to undertake initiatives aimed at improving their communities. Its main line of action involves partnering with public K-9 schools in Gbawe, near Ghana’s capital city, to deliver a programme aimed at the empowerment of young adolescents.
News from Nyimdzi
In the last year, the Nyimdzi Foundation has broadly focused on several key areas of youth empowerment:
- Developing reading and language ability and access to good quality literature. The team began to work with an independent, well-resourced library located on the school’s premises to learn about cultivating a love for reading in junior youth.
- Increasing thirst for knowledge. Through conversations about the powers of the human mind, youth animators have assisted junior youth deepen their appreciation for learning and knowledge.
- Unlocking interests and talents. Complementary activities and service projects have offered opportunities to explore and develop talents and interests.
- Developing powers of inner perception. Youth have made strides in drawing on concepts presented in the texts they are studying and heightened their ability to perceive aspects of their reality and how it applies to their identity and the choices they make in their lives.
- Engaging youth in contributing to their community's progress. Steps were taken towards assisting youth to channel their capacities, energies, knowledge and talents towards the betterment of their community while also tending to their own intellectual, material and social advancement. The form this took was an internship programme which is still being refined.
While what has been described is still modest in scope and scale, having such a context for learning—where others can come and gain certain experiences—provided opportunities for raising the capacity of young people from other parts of the local area and beyond.
The Nyimdzi Foundation is working diligently to refine its ongoing learning to increase its impact and its contribution to bettering the lives of the youth who participate as well as the wider community.