Yameriga News!

Thank you to everyone who joined in the Yameriga 50th Birthday celebrations. We had a wonderful time and, although the event was not a fundraiser, we managed to make over ₤700 towards the AfriKids Emergency Room at the Medical Centre.

Now we have added to this the ₤300 proceeds from “The Snowman’ fairylit show, attended by more than 100 of our youngest children. This means that we have already reached our first target that will allow us to equip the Emergency Room with an examination couch, weighing scale and blood pressure monitoring equipment. These essential items will undoubtedly save lives. We will be sending a cheque to AfriKids before the end of term.

Early in the 2012 Ama Atteen from AfriKids will be visiting Ravenstone and will talk about the work being carried out in Yameriga and Northern Ghana.

Thank you for your generous support.
 

Click the link to watch the video of our marching to celebrate our 10 year link with Yameriga.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DUtIs2qZAw

Ravenstone & Yameriga
Dear Ravenstone Parents,
Ravenstone’s link with Yameriga School has been developing for ten years now. Over the last couple of years we have been given wonderful support by AfriKids, the charity working only in Northern Ghana. This means they know Yameriga village and the communities in the area very well and understand the enormous challenges being faced. All AfriKids project are sustainable and they have an excellent website that shows their work. www.afrikids.org
AfriKids now has a huge opportunity and has asked us to give two minutes of our time to make it possible. The chair of AfriKids Medical Advisory board, Nick Eastcott has been shortlisted for a second Vodafone World of Difference Award. This time, the Grahame Maher Award, would provide AfriKids with a funding package of £100,000 to help develop the AfriKids Medical Centre, healthcare training and delivery across Northern Ghana.
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Ravenstone & Yameriga
Please help AfriKids win the ₤100,000 award for the Medical Centre which will help Yameriga Village!

Voting takes place on Facebook and will be open until 9am on 21st October. You can vote once and please, spread the word to as many people as you can.
If you are on Facebook, please take one minute to make the winning charity AfriKids!
www.tinyurl.com/voteafrikids
Many thanks in advance and best wishes,
Mary Hargreaves
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The most recent mail package to Yameriga has just been sent off...
In it were:
• The first 200 Ravenstone-Yameriga badges that have been bought by Ravenstone children.
• Letters from Mr Millington, Carole and Mary
• A set of pencils from Ravin (Year 5)
• 4 disposable cameras.
• Invitations to the Royal Wedding (or something just as special) from Yasmina and Joe (Year 2)
• Portraits of Prince William and Kate Middleton from Ruby and Shayne (Year 1)
• A bank of pictures and words (in English) to help the Yameriga children learn English, and a set of the same pictures for the Ghana school to write in FraFra so that we can try out speaking a little in this Ghanaian language.
• Some sets of Ludo, for the children to play.

We are looking forward to hearing back from Yameriga in June.

• Next Posting to Ghana is in July

Yameriga is a small remote rural village in N.E. Ghana

• 2011 is the 10th year of our partnership
• The Ravenstone community has supported many projects
• Exchange visits have taken place – memorable for all!
• Yameriga has the first school council in the area, developed with Ravenstone School
• Ravenstone children are very active in supporting the partnership
• Join us in regular meetings to help develop the link!

(See Mary or Carole for dates and time)