1. Savannah State University
Department of Social Work
Ghana Semester Exchange Program
Presents:
Okyerekrom Cleanup Initiative

2. SSU TEAM: Mariah Pollard, Tammie Pinkston, Shyrae Lonon,
Dr. Roenia DeLoach and Jazmine Wilson

3. This project was developed to fulfill the requirements of the Interventive
Methods Social Work with Communities course. The course provides
knowledge and development skills for professional social work practice
with diverse populations in a variety of practice settings with specific skills
such as problem solving, assessment, intervention and evaluation of
practice.
This project gave us an opportunity to :
Understand the relationships between macro level social work and selected
concepts of community development, empowerment, and sustainable development
Examine the roles that social workers assume in working with community
organizations and assisting communities in mobilizing for action.
Apply basic principles and strategies of community organizing and planning
Examine and apply strategies for overcoming or reducing resistance to planned
changes in social systems

4. Plan of Action
Met with the Chief
and council of
Okyerekrom
Discussed the
correlation
between sanitation
and malaria.
Administered
surveys to council
community
members
Analyzed survey
results.
Planned and
implemented the
Okyerekrom
Community
Cleanup Project

5. Community Organizations and
Collaborative Partners
Zoomlion
A waste
management
and environment
sanitation
business that
specializes in
community clean
up initiatives
Provided tools as
well as
volunteers to
support the
cleanup in
Okyerekrom.

6. COCA-COLA
Organizational
Partnership
• A bottling distribution
company that supplies
local communities
with beverages.
• A representative from
the Coca-Cola
company spoke on the
issue of sanitation, as
well as community
empowerment.
• Provided members of
attendance with
beverages.

7. Meeting with Coca-Cola

8. Community
Partnership
Ejisu-Juaben Municipal
Assembly
• Mission- is to improve the
quality of life of its people
and implement policies to
set up human development.
• Registered a letter we
wrote to request a
community washroom for
the Okyerekrom community.
also provides tools for
community cleanup.

9. Meeting with Chief Nana Okyere &
Council

10. Administering Surveys
The students surveyed the council as well as the community.

11. Chief, Council and community
members completing the
community survey

12. The Children
Okyerekrom’s Finest

13. The Community Clean Up
The cleanup was schedule to begin at 8:00am
Members of the community begin cleaning at 6:00am.

14. Community Impact
Members of the community all took part in cleaning up the community.

15. Community Empowerment
The Queen Mother attended the event, where she thanks the students for planning the event

16. Community Empowerment
Chief NaNa participating in the cleanup Queen Mother sweeping

17. Community
Cleanup Day
Local barber ready to collect trash
Community members cleaning out the gutter

18. Community Cleanup Day
Tammie Pinkston about to
ride the cleanup bike
Mariah Pollard and Shyrae Lonon
picking up trash

19. Jazmine Wilson posing before picking
up trash
Mariah Pollard continues to pick
up trash

20. Play and Work = SUCCESS
Shyrae Lonon taking a break from
cleaning for a quick dance
Council member in green
preparing to sweep

21. A COMMUNITY AFFAIR

22. Partnership
Volunteers from Zoomlion Sanitation Company

23. Community Empowerment
Band playing during the cleanup Dancing during the cleanup

24. Chief and Council Speaks
Chief Nana Okyere thanks members of the community and Savannah State University students

25. GO Team SSU

27. Official Photographers

28. …and the band played on !!!!

29. The Champaign has been
fizzled “Let the
Celebration begin”

30. Festivities

32. Dance Contest

33. Community Cleanup Day

34. Musical Chairs Competition
Dr. DeLoach was in charge of the children activities
Over 150 children participated in the events and almost all took home prizes
Activities: Egg race, sack race, musical chairs, dance contest and fruit basket on the head
race

36. Presentation to the Chief

38. And a child shall lead them..

39. And they all came ready
to work

40. It Takes a Village

41. Winner of the Dance Competition

43. Community
Empowerment

44. Pastor of Resurrection Baptist
Church offers prayer

47. The Dynamic Duo

48. Charles Ampofo Mensah
Edmund Bernagd Ayepah
Ejisu Municipal Assembly
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Amean Opoko
Isiac Fortson
Department of Social Welfare
Solomon Achulo
Kwame Adusel
ZoomLion
Joyce
Quashie Lodge
Gibson Ofosu Asante
Kwaku Kran
Christopher Amankwaa
Resurrection Baptist Church
Nicholas Duah
Emmanuel Ato Aban
Queen Mother
Kyerewaa Amponsem
Chief
Nana Osei Okyere II

49. Team SSU
Shyrae Lonon
Tammie Pinkston
Mariah Pollard
Jazmine Wilson
Dr. Roenia DeLoach

50. Team SSU 2014

51. THANK YOU
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Department of Social Work
Department of Social and Behavior Sciences: Behavior
Analysis
Savannah State University
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