Workshops
The whole model in seventy-five minutes
Before a single student is placed, we run the loop as a workshop. Students, teachers, and missionaries each play the role they'd hold in the real system, and in an hour and a quarter everyone in the room has seen service turn into education.
What happens
Problems, not tasks
Students are split into groups and given a real community challenge — post-harvest loss, unsafe water access, young people with no work experience. They plan how they'd address it.
Work, then verification
Groups complete structured tasks and submit them not to their teachers but to a missionary, who reviews the work and assigns Community Value Credits for effort, collaboration, and quality — exactly as a supervisor would on a real placement.
Credits become vouchers become lunch
A facilitator converts each group's credits into vouchers — meal, tuition, textbooks, transport. Students take them to their teachers, who deliver the service. A meal voucher opens the dining hall. A tuition voucher comes off the fees. The loop closes in the room.
Then we talk about it
The last part is reflection: what felt fair, what didn't, where the confusion was. That's the data we came for.
Who it's for
Schools and missions in Ghana considering partnership. A workshop is the fastest way to find out whether your teachers and supervisors want to be part of the loop.
Camps and churches in the United States. Run one with your youth group or summer staff and they'll understand, in an afternoon, what their summer earnings fund.
A workshop runs with fifteen to twenty students, two or three teachers, and one or two missionaries or supervisors. We bring the materials.
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