The Danish Centre for Cultural Development has selected ten (10) teachers from the Youth Home Cultural Group in the Tamale Metropolis to embark on an all expenses paid trip to Denmark for an exchange programme.
The teachers are expected to leave the shores of Ghana on March 12, 2011 to Denmark from where they will proceed to Holland and return home on April 18, 2011.
Mr. Mortein Gabriel Poulsen disclosed this at a meeting with the Mayor of Tamale, Alhaji Abudulai Harunah Friday in his office which formed part of a nine member Danish delegation’s working visit to Tamale.
According to him, the Danish Centre for Cultural Development had been very supportive to some selected basic schools in the Tamale Metropolis in the area of promoting the Ghanaian culture at the elementary stage.
The delegation earlier visited some of the beneficiary schools which include the Sakasaka Presbyterian Experimental, Bagabaga Demonstration, the Seventh Day Adventist and the Kaladan Evangelical Presbyterian schools among others.
Mr. Abdul-Rahaman Mohammed, Director of the Tamale Youth Home Cultural Group explained that the trip aims at bringing Ghanaian and Danish teachers closer to exchange programmes in the area of cultural studies.
He further explained that the programme was introduced in the selected schools courtesy the Tamale Metropolitan Directorate of the Ghana Education Service to curtail the worrying situation of cultural adulteration which had gained grounds among the younger generation in the city.
Mr. Mohammed disclosed that the Danish Centre for Cultural Development in the year 2010 supported the programme with 156,000 US Dollars to make the programme a success.
The Mayor of Tamale, Alhaji Abudulai Harunah Friday commended the Danish Centre for Cultural Development for supporting the Metropolis and its cultural diversity in diverse ways.
He pledged the Assembly’s continual support to the Cultural Unit of the Metropolitan Directorate of the Ghana Education Service to succeed.
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