Dollar FoundationKoforidua, Ghana

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Photos from our visits to schools and communities since 2019. For the latest photos and videos, follow us on Facebook.

10 December 2022

Akropong School for the Blind

Our volunteers spent the day with students at the School for the Blind in Akropong-Akuapem, sharing drinks, biscuits, bags and other gifts.

A volunteer shakes hands with a student in front of a table stacked with drinks and packs of biscuits.
Handing over the gifts.
Students and volunteers in a hall around a table of drinks and biscuits, with bags of donated items on the floor.
Drinks, biscuits and bags of donated items.
Volunteers beside a long table stacked with bottled drinks and bags of donated items, with students seated behind.
Setting out the donations.
Rows of students in school uniform seated on plastic chairs in a large hall.
Students gathered in the hall.
A volunteer in an orange foundation T-shirt stands beside seated students in the hall.
With the students.
Volunteers and students in uniform gathered for a group selfie inside the hall.
Volunteers and students together.
Two volunteers in teal foundation T-shirts laughing with schoolgirls in pink gingham uniforms.
Plenty of laughter.
Seven volunteers in foundation T-shirts standing on grass in front of a yellow bus.
The team on arrival.
Volunteers in foundation T-shirts standing in a line holding hands by the roadside.
Hand in hand, like the logo.
Eleven volunteers in foundation T-shirts standing in a row outdoors.
The volunteer team.
Six volunteers smiling side by side on a veranda in foundation T-shirts.
Ready for the day.
Four volunteers in orange and green foundation T-shirts posing playfully on a veranda.
Good company.
Three volunteers in blue, teal and green foundation T-shirts with their arms around each other.
Friends in kindness.
Four volunteers in a laughing group hug outdoors.
All smiles.
Two volunteers in teal and orange foundation T-shirts hugging and smiling.
Be nice to someone for no reason.
24 December 2021

Timber Nkwanta community

A Christmas Eve visit to the Timber Nkwanta community, with clothing, drinks and time together under the trees.

Children seated on plastic chairs under tall trees as volunteers stand and speak to them.
Gathering under the trees.
A volunteer hands out bottled drinks to children seated on plastic chairs outdoors.
Sharing drinks.
Volunteers sort through bags of donated clothing outdoors, with shirts hung up on hangers behind them.
Sorting donated clothes.
A volunteer in a teal foundation T-shirt buttons a new purple blouse for a girl.
A new blouse, buttoned up.
Two volunteers in foundation T-shirts sit on a bench under trees with five smiling children.
Time together.
Volunteers, some wearing face masks, seated on blue chairs outdoors beside a large tree.
The volunteers.
8 October 2019

Asafo Pechi School

Exercise books, pens, drinks and other supplies for the pupils of Asafo Pechi School.

Pupils in school uniform hold up new exercise books and bags in a classroom, with volunteers standing behind them.
New books for pupils.
Pupils at their desks raise their new exercise books in the air as volunteers look on.
Books held high.
Volunteers, teachers and a large class of pupils behind tables of drinks, exercise books and other donated items in a classroom.
The whole class with the donations.
Pupils in yellow uniforms crowd around a table of exercise books and supplies, with volunteers at either side.
Exercise books and supplies.
A volunteer hands out pens to young pupils sitting in a classroom.
Handing out pens.
A volunteer takes a selfie with a crowd of cheerful children making peace signs.
Selfie time.
A volunteer takes a selfie with four young pupils, two with pink flowers in their hair.
Making friends.
A smiling volunteer and a young pupil in an orange school uniform, both with pink flowers in their hair.
Smiles all round.
27 July 2019

Unto Others International School, Accra

Less than three weeks after the foundation began, our volunteers presented gifts to pupils at a school event in Accra.

Twelve volunteers in foundation T-shirts at a busy outdoor school event with tents and bunting.
The volunteers at the event.
A volunteer shakes hands with a girl in kente cloth as he presents her with a wrapped gift.
Presenting a gift.
A volunteer in a yellow foundation T-shirt hands a wrapped gift to a young pupil on a red carpet.
A gift for a young pupil.
A volunteer shakes hands with a student in a graduation gown while presenting a wrapped gift.
Congratulations.
Pupils in white shirts and black waistcoats seated outdoors watching a school event, with bunting and balloons overhead.
The school event.
Six male volunteers in yellow, blue, teal, navy, orange and white foundation T-shirts standing under a tree.
Part of the team.
Four female volunteers in orange, grey and yellow foundation T-shirts standing in front of a car.
Ready to go.

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