A total of 160 students and 20 teachers from the Hald Ege Efterskole High School in Denmark are in Ghana for a cultural and knowledge exchange to improve their understanding of Ghana’s culture and educational system.
The ten-day knowledge seeking adventure students are in two groups.
They would tour the Northern and the Central Regions for five days for each region, where they would join their Ghanaian counterparts to learn from each others’ culture.
The Ghana Friendship Groups in Denmark (GV) in collaboration with the Youth Empowerment for Life (YEfL), a Tamale based NGO is facilitating the movement of the students and their teachers in Ghana for the ten day period.
The programme is on the theme: “Social media bringing people together” and was also aimed at connecting the Denmark students and their Ghanaian counterparts on the social media to continue discussions on areas they could not learn from each other during their stay in Ghana.
Briefing the media in Dalun in the Kumbungu District of the Northern Region, Madam Lise Grauenakaer, Programmes Coordinator of GV, said the purpose was to give education to the students from Denmark to know how people in Africa live so that they would understand the situation instead of learning from the books.
She said the visit would also provide the students with the opportunity to mobilize resources in Denmark to support the needy in Ghana to improve standards of living and to strengthen the cultural relationship between the two countries.
The visiting students joined in literacy classes in six communities in the Kumbungu District, attended youth rallies, engaged in radio talk shows and engaged in football tournaments while others used artistic work to express their culture.
Mr Erik Junker, Principal of Hald Ege Efterskole High School expressed gratitude to the organizers of the programme saying, “Africa is a place we have been longing to visit and I think coming to Ghana is not misplaced since we are learning a lot from each other.”
He said Hald Ege Efterskole High school was ready to learn new things and that the cultural exchange would help the students to understand diverse cultures and expressed the hope that the social media networking after the visit would help understand more things about Ghana and its culture.
Source: GNA
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