Our Work
With Purpose
Ghana Beyond Subsistence (GBS) engages in locally produced development strategies expressed and determined through community participation. Our rural development agenda is shaped by our conversations and collaborations with local teachers, students, and school administrators, farmers, traders, and traditional, religious, and elected municipal leaders, and cultural preservationists, for mutual growth and community development.
Community Development
Cultural Competencies
Teaching - Learning - Connecting
Ghana Beyond Subsistence focuses on rural development by fostering collaboration and community advancement by means of our international award-winning teaching-learning-connecting model.
Ghana Beyond Subsistence offers US middle and high school teachers a two-week intensive international experience in global citizenship, built around, Project Based Learning strategies in STEAM education, Humanities, Arts and the Social Sciences.
During the annual Ghana Beyond Subsistence Teacher Education and Residency in Ghana, teachers will:
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Teaching: Observe Ghanaian educational practices, collaborate with GES in cross-cultural workshops, teach enrichment classes in schools, and organize virtual educational exchanges through ePals and sibSchools.
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Learning: Learn about Ghana’s history by visiting Cape Coast Slave Castle, Elmina Castle, the National Museum, W.E.B. DuBois’ home, Kwame Nkrumah’s Tomb, learn some Ewe language, kente weaving, batiking, and engage in development studies with local traditional and municipal leaders.
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Connecting: Participate in storytelling and drum-dance events with cultural preservationist groups, celebrate the harvest with farmers and school year with teachers, and agritourism focused on engaging with farmers in their food production process from planting to cooking. These activities will expand the teachers’ understanding of Ghanaian farm life and culture.
