Capital Campaign Update:
We’re at the 89% mark - $700,000 to
go!
Cost-effective and beautiful - local architects have finished
designs for the new campus. ABOVE: the 100 acre site outside of
Accra. BELOW LEFT: The Library. BELOW RIGHT: Founders Courtyard.
Campus Design and Details.
$6.4M
Total
cost estimate.
$3.2M
Current pledges and donations (pledges can be paid over time).
$2.5M
Investment loan awarded by IFC, World Bank.
IFC Invests In Ashesi.
$0.7M
The amount ($700,000) we still need in pledges.
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Celebration Trip, "Breaking New Ground!"
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Save the Date
Join
us for a Ground-breaking ceremony & tour,
August
23 – 30.
Ashesi students, alumni, faculty and leadership will welcome you to
see Ashesi’s positive impact on Africa. We’ll visit graduates at
work, including a software startup and an orphanage, hear student
presentations - and still have time to soak up a bit of Ghana’s
history, culture, markets and music.
Details
coming soon!
Major milestone in 2008:
Financial sustainability achieved
In
2008, for the first time, tuition from those students who could
afford to pay covered all University operating expenses. (About half
of Ashesi students receive aid; about 20% come from extreme
poverty.) Donors move Ashesi forward--funding the much-needed new
campus, extending more scholarships, and creating new programs.
Graduation May 30, 2009:
Seniors creating great
projects, and on track for great jobs
Over
50 seniors are now completing major projects. One student is
adapting mobile software to allow nurses in rural areas to use cell
phones to diagnose disease; another is measuring the effectiveness
of radio ads in English vs. local languages. Read more at
Ashesi News 2009.
Despite the tough economy, the Ashesi
class of 2009 is on-track for 100% placement
within 6 months of graduating! Soon, there will be over 170 Ashesi
grads working for lasting progress and change in Africa.
Please spread the word about Ashesi and keep in touch!
Questions, concerns, or ideas, to host a house party or volunteer,
please email Ashesi University Foundation at
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