Blue Skies Ghana have distributed over 100,000 pens to schools in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The pens were donated on behalf of the UK Charity Pens for Kids. Foundation Manager Alistair Djimatey is pictured below distributing pens to two local schools. You can find out more about Pens for […]
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2017 School Farm Project Kicks Off
The 2017 School Farm Competition is open for applications in Ghana. The competition is open to JHS and SHS level schools in the Central Region from Cape Coast through Swedru to Winneba, and Greater Accra from Medie to Amasaman and Ada, down to Dodowa. Schools can apply by completing a […]
Foundation Gives Green Light to 2017 Projects
Eleven Foundation projects have been given the green light at a Board Meeting in Ghana on the 17th of January. These include the Foundation’s first project for Egypt, which involves the renovation and provision of IT equipment for an education centre. Other projects include the provision of kitchen and playground […]
Blue Skies Foundation to consider project in Egypt in 2017
Representatives of Albert Heijn and the Blue Skies Foundation visited Egypt this month to look at how the Foundation can be extended to implement projects here in 2017. Ge Happe and Henri Zondag from Albert Heijn along with Frank Brinkman from Bakker joined Anthony Pile and Simon Derrick in a […]
Blue Skies awards School Farm of the Year
Blue Skies has awarded winners of the 2016 School Farm of the Year during a ceremony at St Martin’s Senior High School in Nsawam on the 25th of November. Over 600 students attended the ceremony representing sixty schools who participated in this year’s School Farm of the Year Competition. The […]
5 Facts About Our School Farm of the Year Awards
The ‘school farm’ or ‘garden’ was once a common feature in Ghanaian schools, and was a place where students would visit to learn about food and farming. More recently however, the school farm concept has declined and it is reported that the only engagement students would have with agriculture was […]
New classroom blocks opened by Foundation
The Blue Skies Foundation has recently inaugurated two new classroom blocks in Ghana. They include a new three classroom block with provision for an ICT centre and staff common room for Chinto Junior High School located near to the Blue Skies factory in Dobro in Ghana, and a three classroom […]
More Foundation projects completed
Nearly all our 2016 Foundation projects are nearing completion including a new classroom block for Kyinto Junior High School located near to the factory in Ghana and a new primary school for the papaya farming community of Pampanso. Our 2016 School Farm of the Year project is also well under […]
Foundation Throwback – South Africa
A look back at some of the the most recent Foundation projects completed in South Africa. Balfour Primary School Kitchen Project The aim of this project was to renovate the kitchen at Balfour Primary School in South Africa to give learners nutritious food during the day. The feeding scheme at […]
Foundation reaches out to local South African communities
A team from Blue Skies South Africa recently embarked on a drive to engage three communities near to its factory in Balfour in the province of Mpumalanga. The drive was part of a renewed effort to raise awareness and manage expectations of the Foundation activities so it might identify some […]