2001

February 2001

The ground and first floors of our new building are completed. This allows the Library to move into a larger space and the First Aide room moves into the old space of the Library and is named Monica's Clinic. This allows more space for students who need to rest as well as substantial space for the education on HIV/AIDS awareness.

20 February 2001

Educators from New York visit our school with African Ventures, Inc. and are favorably impressed.

Spring 2001

JWMS students have written poems which together with their drawings are being edited into a book to be published in the Fall of 2001 with the kind assistance of WAFUNIF.

April 2001

The work of Rachel Avery Harrison, coordinator of the summer Conflict Resolution programs at John William Montessori School is recognized by an award from Youth in Action.

17 April 2001

On 27 August 2000 Fabkom, Inc. donated to our school seventy 486 computers that were ready to be networked. Funds were found and these machines were shipped to Ghana in October 2000. They arrived at our school 17 April 2001.

8 June 2001

A video of our students performing at Kumasi Prison and other venues is available on tape in both PAL and NSTC formats and on North American Region DVD, with an audio version on CD.

Summer 2001

An article about the Conflict Resolution program at JWMS appears in Friends' Peace Team News.

9 July 2001

The first two volunteers (Marcel Kitissou and Pauline Ginsberg) for the summer 2001 program in Conflict Resolution arrived at our school. Planning conferences were begun with those who completed all three stages of the Alternatives to Violence Program last year. Workshops on counseling students on career choices and peer counseling were held.

11 July 2001

We are still in need a dependable bus to transport our students to and from school. A suitable bus is available in Ghana for 130,000,000 cedis (about $19,000), but with our construction and other program development we do not have these funds.

25 July to 12 August 2001

The second year of Alternatives to Violence training at our school allows last year's graduates to serve their apprenticeships with experienced facilitators from the USA, Nigeria and Uganda.

August 2001

Every single one of our students who took the nation-wide exam for Juniour Secondary School students earned all first-rate marks and was admitted to their first choice of Secondary School

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