GHANA

2011:

• First classroom built by Projects Abroad volunteers at Akokoa. First pupils admitted.

• Projects Abroad hands over the school to the Projects Abroad Foundation.
   

2012:

• Land bought at Akokoa to expand the primary school classrooms and add a junior high school.

• Sports programme started.

• Tore Eikelands Legat, a Norwegian charity, established in memory of Tore Eikeland who was killed in a mass shooting at Utøya.  The Legat decided to support the school, now to be named Tore Eikeland School.

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2014:

• A series of meetings in Bergen with the Eikeland family, and in Ghana with villagers in Akokoa, establish the Active Citizenship School mission – to carry out the education required by the authorities in Ghana and to focus on giving pupils the self-confidence and self-esteem to become active citizens.

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2014-16:

• The number of pupils increases from 50 to 240 in this period.

• Music and dance programme started.

• First online exchanges between pupils at Bergen Katedralskole in Norway and Akokoa.

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2018:

• Junior High School built.

 

2019:

• The number of pupils increases from 240 to 310.

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2022:

• A rewilding area established and first organic crops grown. 

• First graduates from the Junior High School.

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2023:

• Internet access equipment donated.

• Girls’ Club started.

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2024:

• New Environment curriculum started.

• First alumni complete Senior High School (or equivalent) and start active citizenship, higher education and careers.

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2025:

• IT centre started.

• New classes start to study the natural environment, alongside the greening of the school grounds and improvements in the rewilding areas, (dedicated funds from private donor).