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ACCRA, Ghana – Opposition leader John Atta Mills was declared Ghana’s next president Saturday in the closest electoral race this West African nation has ever seen. The peaceful ballot secured Ghana’s place as a beacon of democracy on a volatile continent.
Ghana also is now one of the few countries in Africa to successfully transfer [...]

Thursday was an exciting afternoon in Providence, RI as 11 middle school students got to chat live via Yahoo Messenger with 10 students studying across the globe in Abeka, Ghana.  This chat only lasted one hour and at times the connection slowed communication, but it was the perfect meeting between the two eager groups of [...]

I woke up this morning incredibly excited that today would be our first live chat between the PROFESA students in Ghana and the Highlander Community Service Board, but it just wasn’t meant to be.
We were scheduled to chat at noon Eastern Standard Time which is 4pm in Ghana.  We logged on using yahoo messenger, but [...]

It was a tentative yet exciting day at Moses Brown’s Middle School today as 6th, 7th and 8th graders from the Highlander Charter School Community Service Board met for the first time with Moses Brown’s Middle School Community Service Board.
Students worked together on an ice breaker activity and shared their ideas and goals for this [...]