AFRICAN JOURNEY:
CHRISTIAN BROTHERS TAMALE
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Our group
were sent to Tamale, Ghana
Africa for Christian Brothers Novice Training and we have to follow the programs and
activities given to us. During our free
time we can visit places that we like.
Here are the following activities we do at Tamale.
CROSS
CULTURAL STUDY OF GHANAIAN CULTURE AT TICCS - (TAMALE INSTITUTE OF CROSS -CULTURAL STUDIES
When we arrived our group together with the African groups have a one week stay-in seminar for Ghanaian Culture at Tamale Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies. This was our first program activity and every body was excited to learn and gain knowledge about Ghanaian culture. Being one of the Filipino in the group of course I'm eager to learn many things about them.
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| The entrance at Tamale Institute of Cross Cultural Studies |
Tamale, Ghana Africa is very rich in
culture and unique among other ethnics. One of the famous is the
Katarika village, in which unique houses are made up of mud and dried
leafs of grass for roofing. Built in similar rounded shape structures.
We had the chance to visit one of the village named "Katarika Village"
during our cultural study.
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| Photo taken during the visit at Katarika Village, Tamale Ghana |
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| A Visit at Katarika Village, Tamale Ghana |
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| We also visited the industries in Tamale like cocoa industry. The cocoa are being cook first in a large pot before it was being made into various products like soap, lotion, oil etc. |
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| Our group during the end of our Ghanaian culture study |
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| A dance presentation at the end of our study of Ghanaian culture at TICS |
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| A photo taken at the end of our study of Ghanian culture |
The TICCS accommodation block offers 20 double-occupancy rooms with
shower, fan or A/C unit. It acts as a guesthouse, which serves the
general public when courses are not in session and serves the course
participants during courses. Clean and airy rooms are offered at
moderate prices (10 USD a night). According to the Lonely Planet
guidebook, TICCS is becoming a popular spot with tourists and travelers.
Besides the Senior Staff accommodation block located on campus, there
are two Senior staff bungalows located off campus at “Nima” behind
T-Poly.
Jungle Bar
This elegant, rooftop bar with seating for 45 persons is located atop
the Senior Staff quarters where its high ceilings and open air sides
offer cool sanctuary and warm conversation to weary learners. Drinks
and light snacks of pizza, burgers, dogs and grilled sausages are
enjoyed by participants and local patrons in a tropical jungle
atmosphere provided by cane and bamboo furniture, zana mat ceilings and
hundreds of potted tropical plants. Watch out for the rustle of leaves
and two sets of green eyes peering out from the lush greenery. Spooky
and Wintone, the two TICCS cats, may be waiting to see if you order the
“Kokoroko” pizza; it’s their favorite.
Services
Transport facilities (mini-van for trips & outings etc.)
Communication services (email, fax, telephone)
Secretarial with PC
Availability of PC
Airport with daily internal flights to Accra/Kumasi
Tamale Central Hospital and Shekhinah Clinic are nearby
Tamale is an administrative centre for shopping, business, offices, government
Landscaped grounds and gardens
Jungle Bar: serving drinks and snacks
DAGBANI
(DAGOMBA) LANGUAGE STUDY
Another activity that we took was learning the Dagbani language. Dagbani is member of the Gur branch of Niger-Congo
languages. It is spoken mainly in northern Ghana by
800,000 Dagomba people. It is closely related to, and
mutually intelligible with, Mossi, which is spoken mainly
in Burkina-Faso. Dagbani is also known as Dagbamba, Dagbane
and Dagomba.
Dagbani is taught in primary and secondary schools, and
there are radio programmes in the language.
It was fun and I really enjoy learning the Dagbani language though it's really difficult but at the end of the day I learned something new. The teacher presents the lessons in an easy to difficult sentences for us to learn quickly and easy
COMMUNITY WORK
As part of our training at Tamale, we
are all assigned to different NGO’s and non NGO’s facilities
and offices to gain
knowledge and share our skills
also. I was assigned at Tamale Rehabilitation Center together with one African trainee under the Department of Social Welfare. I was assigned to teach English Subject and it's really difficult on my part because my students are all deaf mute.
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Our students at Tamale Rehabilitation Center. This photo was taken during the picnic day at Soldiers Barracks compound.
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| Picture with Sisters of FMS taken at Soldiers Barracks on Picnic day |
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| I was also assigned at St. Theresa's Catholic Parish Church | |
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| Br. Dennis and I were also assigned at Parish Computer center wherein we assist clients and students needs. |
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| St. Theresa's Parish church on Palm Sunday |
SCRIPTURE
STUDY
BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS AND OTHER SPECIAL ACTIVITIES
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| Birthday celebrants are given short programs and token in a one night event. |
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| Acceptance to Novice Trainng |
PRAYER
CHILD
PROTECTION
Part of a our activity is to be oriented by the Ghana Child Protection Law.
The Ghana Government’s aim of enacting and implementing the child rights
legislation (Children’s Act 1998; Act 560) was to protect and improve
the welfare of children.
The law has provided opportunities for tailoring some meaningful
services to many children in Ghana in the last ten years. A careful
study of national and regional initiatives indicated an awareness of the
idea of rights pertaining to children. The general population is also
becoming cognizant of the attention paid to the welfare of children
from both public and private institutions including local and
international NGOs.
MYERS
BRIGGS SEMINAR
One of our activity was to attend the one week Myers Briggs Type Indicator Seminar provides us with a
tool to better understand ourselves and our co-brothers. They gave us test
that builds on psychologist Carl Jung’s theory of personality styles, and it
is an invaluable aid to learning to work with others in an organization
or on a team. In this seminar, participants we take the Myers-Briggs
Type Indicator (MBTI) to determine our personality type and understand
both its strength and weaknesses. MBTI measures the psychological
attitudes of extraversion and introversion. The Myers-Briggs test provides us with a personality formula, preferences and
the description of their type. Discussion of the results were done in a group
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| This is the entrance to Myers Briggs Seminar venue at SVD Seminary Tamale, Ghana |
ARTS
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| We learned various types of arts aside from cross titching. Second from wright is our cross titching teacher who taught us the basic of crosstiching method. |
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| Student finishing her project in cross-titching class |
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| Sewing is one of the important needed skills at Tamale Rehabilitation Center |
OTHER PLACES WE VISITED:
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| TAMALE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION |
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| TAMALE CATHEDRAL CHURCH TAMALE, GHANA PHOTO WITH BR. ACKIM |
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| TEAK TREES PLANTATION |
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| SVD SEMINARY COMPOUND |
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| BAGABAGA COLLEGE OF EDUCATION |
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| SVD SEMINARY COMPOUND |
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