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AOA collects books, pens, pencils, notebooks, backpacks, crayons, scissors, flash cards, etc. throughout the year and prepares a shipment to Ghana every November. AOA travels to Ghana every February to distribute the supplies to our schools.

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PHOTOS FROM PAST GROUP TRIPS TO GHANA VISITING SCHOOLS, ELMINA AND CAPE COAST SLAVE DUNGEONS, W.E.B. DEBOIS CENTER, KWAME NKRUMAH MEMORIAL AND OTHER CULTURAL SITES IN ACCRA, GHANA

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	AGE OF AWARENESS HOLIDAY MARKETPLACE Raising money for schools in Africa 110 photos
	GHANA SCHOOL VISITS 2012 GHANA SCHOOL VISITS 2012 40 photos
	PREPARING SCHOOL SUPPLIES TO SHIP TO GHANA Getting the school supplies ready to travel to Ghana 13 photos
	Ghana Nov. 2010 23 photos
	Age of Awareness Holiday Marketplace Fundraiser 45 photos
	Ghana King David School visit November 2010 98 photos
	CAREER DAY 2010 34 photos
	AOA PROGRAM AND ACTIVITIES 18 photos
	who we help 6 photos
	Ghana school visits 2010 43 photos
	GHANA 2010 18 photos
	SLAVE DUNGEONS 2010 40 photos
	KWAME NKRUMAH Kwame Nkrumah became the first prime and later president of Ghana. He was born on September 21, 1909, at Nkroful in what was then the British-ruled Gold Coast, the son of a goldsmith. Trained as a teacher, he went to the United States in 1935 for advanced studies and continued his schooling in England, where he helped organize the Pan-African Congress in 1945. He returned to Ghana in 1947 and became general secretary of the newly founded United Gold Coast Convention but split from it in 1949 to form the Convention People's party (CPP). After his 'positive action' campaign created disturbances in 1950, Nkrumah was jailed, but when the CPP swept the 1951 elections, he was freed to form a government, and he led the colony to independence as Ghana in 1957. A firm believer in African liberation, Nkrumah pursued a radical pan-African policy, playing a key role in the formation of the Organization of African Unity in 1963. As head of government, he was less successful however, and as time passed he was accused of forming a dictatorship. In 1964 he formed a one-party state, with himself as president for life, and was accused of actively promoting a cult of his own personality. Overthrown by the military in 1966, with the help of western backing, he spent his last years in exile, dying in Bucharest, Romania, on April 27, 1972. His legacy and dream of a "United States of African" still remains a goal among many. Nkrumah was the motivating force behind the movement for independence of Ghana, then British West Africa, and its first president when it became independent in 1957. His numerous writings address Africa's political destiny. 12 photos
	FUN IN GHANA 2010 15 photos
	TRAVEL IN AFRICA 6 photos