the sports academy
The Right to Dream Academy is currently located in a small town in the Akuapem hills in the Eastern region of Ghana, where there are few, if any, opportunities for children to play sport at the same time as obtain a first class education in a safe and supportive environment.
The
Right to Dream Academy answers this need and focuses on nurturing the
child, the student and the athlete, helping to develop empowered young
people who are capable of leading positive social development.
The Academy’s objectives are
- To provide a safe and supportive environment for children to develop their academic, sporting and key life skills.
- To
provide children with an educational programme that equips them with
the appropriate skills, knowledge and experience to enable them to
pursue, upon graduation, further education and employment opportunities
both locally and internationally.
“You
can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. You can be
anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you
hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.”
Abraham Lincoln
To
date, the Academy has worked with more than 80 children, over 50% of
whom are drawn from families that live on less than a $1 per day, per
person and a further 45% are from families that live on less than $1.80
per day, per person.
Our pupils have often had to overcome
severe adversity and our programme is designed to meet their unique
needs. As scholars, our pupils benefit from;
- Enrolment in our international school. To learn more about our school and academic programmes, please click here.
- Our unique personal development and leadership programme. To learn more, please click here.
- A
safe, healthy and loving environment through the provision of
accommodation, a healthy diet and a programme of pastoral care which
offers personal support.
- Good quality training facilities, expert coaching, and support services including physiotherapy and sports psychology.
The
Right to Dream program definitely nurtures students to approach life
with enthusiasm which is hard to find in a young underprivileged kid
living on the streets of Ghana. My time at the Right to Dream Academy
was an experience of a lifetime. We were brought up to take chances and
be on our best behaviour no matter the kind of circumstances you find
yourself in.
(Academy Graduate 2006, Albert Kumah (CK), The Hotchkiss School Class of ’09)In
the last nine years the Right to Dream Academy and our graduates have
achieved significant international and domestic success through
combining sport and education.
On this basis we have now reached
a point where we are expanding our programme and we have just started
construction of a new US$1.48million
(FINAL FIGURE STILL NEEDS ADDING)
multi-sport Academy that will offer scholarships to boys and girls in
the sports of football, tennis, basketball, boxing, golf and athletics.
This new Academy will ensure that we are able to offer these
unique educational and sporting opportunities to many more
underprivileged children in the future. To learn more about the new
multi-sport Academy please
click here.
‘Don"e;t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality.
If you can dream it you can make it so’.
Belva Davis