Alliston Partners with Picton in Ghana

Posted by Dave Green

Recently Picton Rotarian Robert Bird was the guest speaker at the Rotary Club of Alliston. Robert provided and update on the Atorkor Voctaional Training Centre in Atorkor, Ghana.

The Atorkor Vocational Training Centre has just been built in an economically devastated coastal area, with 90% youth unemployment. It is desperately needed. When Picton Rotarian Peta Hall first went to the Village of Atorkor in Ghana, at the request of the Atorokor Development Foundation, she saw the incredible poverty and hopelessness caused by the destruction of the local fishing by foreign trawlers.

Her dream was to find the funds and oversee the construction of a self sustaining economic training centre in this small fishing village. Picton Rotary, with financial help from other district clubs, and the community of Prince Edward County, supported her dream with a quarter of a million dollars in contributions. These funds have allowed local Ghanaians to build the centre. Now that the bricks and mortar phase is completed, the first phase of the dream has become a reality!

For more photos of the centre and the opening ceremonies click here.