CURRENT PROJECTS

Kpoeta Community Clinic:

The Kpoeta Community Clinic project began when visiting Fulbright Scholar Dr. Francis Amedahe of Ghana made a charge to the Periclean Scholars Ghana Group in April 2007 to help the approximately 10,000 people of Kpoeta, Ghana who lost access to health care services each rainy season (May/June-Nov.) when the unpaved road between Kpoeta and Kpedze, which had the only health clinic in the area, become impassible. Dr. Amedahe, originally from Kpoeta, had seen too many people die unnecessarily because the cluster of villages and hamlets near the Ghana-Togo border did not have a healthcare facility and people resorted to literally carrying the injured and sick for miles on a chair or stretcher to Kpedze. Since the opening of the Kpoeta Community Clinic in January 2010, attention has turned to the construction of medical staff housing to retain the two Government of Ghana-posted nurses in Kpoeta, because more than half of all doctors, nurses, and pharmacists trained in Ghana leave the country to obtain higher pay in the U.K., U.S.A., and elsewhere. Approximately half of the members of the Periclean Scholars Ghana Group have been hosted by the people of Kpoeta and Dr. Heidi G. Frontani, faculty advisor for the group has been named an honorary Development Queen Mother, ‘Kado I’ of Kpoeta.

Sokode Rural Development:

Sokode is a village with which Elon has longstanding ties through its study abroad programs.  The Periclean Scholars Ghana Group has contributed to raising school supplies, supporting a Heifer International Initiative, and constructing a kindergarten in Sokode-Etoe.  Their latest initiative involves bringing solar cookers to the community.