28 Mar 2020

Jaimee Perrett: Nelson teacher's enforced Ghana stay

From Saturday Morning, 9:08 am on 28 March 2020

Jaimee Perrett is a primary school teacher from Nelson who’s been fundraising to rebuild a school in Tetrem, a village about 300 kilometres north west of the Ghanaian capital, Accra.

A few months ago she arrived in Tetrem and started the rebuild project. The original plan was that she would oversee the project until June, when she will return back to New Zealand to get a job and start on more fundraising to finish the project.

But COVID-19 has intervened and she now finds herself having to stay in Ghana for the foreseeable future, without any real prospect of returning home. She has a Give A Little page running until the end of March here.

 

 

Jaimee Perrett and some of her fellow volunteers

Jaimee Perrett and some of her fellow volunteers Photo: Facebook/Tetrem Ghana Good Foundation School