Danish students in Ghana on exchange programme

One hundred and sixty students and 20 teachers from Hald Ege Efterskole School in Denmark are in the country on a cultural and educational exchange programme to learn more about Ghanaians and their culture.

Out of the number, 90 are in Dalun in the Kumbugu District in the Northern Region while the rest are in Cape Coast in the Central Region.

Activities

The programme is a collaborative initiative between Youth Empowerment for Life (YEL), a non-governmental organisation based in Ghana and Ghana Friendship in Denmark (GV).

The trip is on the theme: “Social media bringing people together”.

Apart from the students undertaking activities such as soccer competition with their Ghanaian counterparts from the Dalun community, they will also participate in arts and painting, radio show, filming, cultural dance and a tour to some tourist sites in the Northern Region.

Purpose

The Programme Coordinator of GV, Lise Grauenkaer, in an interview with the Daily Graphic, said the programme was to enable the Danish students to learn and appreciate cultures of other parts of the world.

She said the students would also visit some projects they had supported, especially the School of Life, where school children who found themselves out of school are given formal education.

She explained that the programme would create social media platforms where the students from both Denmark and Ghana could share and exchange information after the programme.

The Principal of the school, Mr Erik Junker, said it was the first time a school in Denmark had moved its entire self on a tour to an African country, and that he was optimistic that the tour would create a lot of opportunities for the students to learn and interact with Ghanaians.