Education

      Technology has made it very easy for many schools in the United States to do all sorts of things, but that’s not the case in Ghana. Salifu is a resident of Abura, Ghana who wants money for millet seed. Salifu will use the millet seed to grow millet (an oat meal like substance) for selling. She will use the money to support her self and her daughter.

     Students in Ghana have to go to school for only six years as kids in the United States have to go to school for 12. The education in Ghana is really good because, thirty- four percent of the government’s money goes towards the education. Just because the government pays for some of the essentials needed for the school that does not mean they pay for every child to go to school. There are actually school fees that parents have to pay in order for their child to go to school if the parents are not able to pay then the child can not go to school until the fee is paid.

                                    Successful

       The chance of more kids growing up to have a good job and to live well off is very big, because eighty- nine percent of the kids in Ghana go to school. With eighty- nine percent of the kids going to school there is a large number of schools, but even though there are a lot of schools it does not mean that there are fancy with all sorts of technology. Most schools in Ghana have to share computers they have a system that when one school is using text books another school is using computers and they switch off.            

            Consequences and Clothing

        In Boxborough, Massachusetts kids have consequences if they do not do work or talk in class such as recess slips or their name on the board, but in Ghana kids get spanked that does not happen in all of the schools it has reduced largely compared to a long time ago which was when it was popular in all schools. The consequences we receive are not the only thing that is different for kids in Ghana and Boxborough, Massachusetts. Red, yellow, blue, Aeropostale, and Abercrombie are some of things that you see when you walk into a school in Massachusetts, compared to Ghana where kids all over are spotted wearing uniforms to school. It’s a plus side for parents because instead of having to worry about their kids wearing different outfits to school each day they can take care of other everyday necessities that the family needs to survive.

          Salifu is an everyday person who lives in Abura, Ghana she is trying to make it possible for her and her daughter to survive. That has shown as mildly difficult in a country that has little electricity and living on $1,500 a year.