JCU students prepare fund-raiser for Ghana's deaf students

By Marzia Ferraris

ROME, April 24 - A fund raiser will be held in the entrance hall of John Cabot University during the final examinations week to benefit the development of the Cape Coast School for the Deaf in Ghana.

The fund raiser will be held between May 2-8 , from 11 am to 6 pm.

JCU student Dean Torosian, one of the four organizers of this fund raiser, conceived of the fund-raiser idea after attending a two-week political science course, offered by The American University in Rome, in Ghana. The aim of this course was to learn all about Ghana’s history up close.

Last year the Ghana group managed to raise more money than expected; Torosian is confident they will again raise a tidy sum for the school.

Torosian says that when he visited the school he and his fellow classmates (pictured above) were welcomed with open arms. Previously, money raised by JCU and AUR students was used to buy hens. On the day their tour,Torosian said, the first eggs were laid.

This year, money raised will be spent on purchasing goats.

At the school, these young Ghanaian children are given the possibility to learn an alternative way to make a living, a rare moment of optimism in their tough lives.

And JCU students can help. Just stop by the fund-raiser between exams.