This past June, Karen Melton, fellow Cleveland Rotarian, and I visited Rotary Peace Fellow Wisdom Addo in Ghana, his homeland, to experience his annual PeaceJam Youth Leadership Conference in Accra and visit the future site of the West Africa Center for Peace Foundation outside his home village. We also were treated to a Welcoming Ceremony in his home village. We have a Power Point presentation about our visit that we would love to share with your Club.
Our District has been connected with Wisdom since we first recommended him for Rotary’s Peace Scholar program over 10 years ago. He attended our 2023 District Conference, where he was the keynote speaker for Friday’s luncheon and a co-presenter for a District Leadership Assembly session on Peace and Conflict Resolution. This past November our Rotary Club, joined by several other clubs in our District, funded a one-day PeaceJam Conference for youth in upper West Ghana. The work Wisdom and his team are doing in Ghana, and beyond, is outstanding.
Contact Julie West to schedule our visit to your Club: jwest@ameritech.net or 216-392-6771.
Welcoming Ceremony
Several of the Conference attendees with keynote speaker Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee
Welcoming Ceremony, includes the village dignitaries, Wisdom Addo, Karen and Julie West, and others helping with the Youth Conference