{"id":623,"date":"2010-01-11T12:14:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T16:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/?p=623"},"modified":"2025-08-08T09:56:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:56:32","slug":"kroeger-college-student-headed-for-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/2010\/kroeger-college-student-headed-for-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Kroeger College student headed for Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Kroeger College student headed for Africa\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pembroke woman ready for Africa mission <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pembroke native and Fellowes High School graduate Cassandra Demers will be spending this winter away from the ice and snow, but she isn&#8217;t hitting the beach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, the third-year 杏吧原创 University student will be heading to the west coast of Africa to help out with an effort to educate the youth in Ghana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the next four months, Ms. Demers is volunteering with the Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC). Formed in 1999, it is a network of civil society organizations, professional groupings, educational\/research institutions and other practitioners interested in promoting quality basic education for all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a current membership of about 200 organizations, its philosophy sees education as a fundamental human right and key to breaking the cycle of poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through its work the group hopes to encourage the Ghanian government to do more for the education of its people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms. Demers will be travelling to different school rooms and facilities within the country in order to help determine how effective the group&#8217;s work is in improving access and quality of education for the country&#8217;s children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll be going around collecting information and input to see how effective this is and how it is working,&#8221; she said, focusing on some of the new programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the end of her tour, she is to write a draft evaluation report and present it to the organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based out of Accra, the nation&#8217;s capital, she is one of two volunteers working with the GNECC and will be staying with a host family during her time there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The work is ideal for Ms. Demers, who is currently working on her Bachelor of Public Affairs and Policy Management. Her speciality is development studies, and she has had a great interest in it and global issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I heard about the GNECC during my co-op program in 杏吧原创 University, when I did an internship with the World University Service of Canada,&#8221; she recalled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pembroke woman ready for Africa mission Pembroke native and Fellowes High School graduate Cassandra Demers will be spending this winter away from the ice and snow, but she isn&#8217;t hitting the beach. 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