Mmofra Trom Education Center

About the Mmofra Trom Education Center

The primary goal of the Mmofra Trom Education Center, also known as the Carol Gray International School, is to provide access to education, health care and job-training to each student regardless of their financial position. It is located near Somanya, Ghana. The land that the center was built on was purchased from Nene Nar Plorkey III, the chief of the village of Trom.

The school curriculum challenges the children through an education that inspires both practical thinking and problem-solving development.

By providing students with both an academic and vocational education, children are able to apply their knowledge to future endeavors that will promote personal maturity and contribute to the social and economic growth of Ghana.

Adjetey Olan and his family run the Mmofra Trom Center and have dedicated their lives to the school. He has adopted the 16 vulnerable children that the Mmofra Trom Bead Project serves and has given them the support of a family.

The Mmofra Trom Center was built with the lead of Carol Gray, whose passion was to help orphans in Ghana. Her original idea was to provide a school exclusively for these children, however in order to offer financial sustainability to the school; they opened it to tuition paying students as well. The Mmofra Trom Center is now one of the most prestigious elementary schools in Ghana.

Today there are 300 students that attend the school, 16 who receive full scholarship. There are 38 acres of land where they grow mango and pineapple. In addition, they raise rabbits, ducks, geese, grass-cutters and tilapia. Also, students studying abroad helped build a well that is now being used by several villages.

Bentley University has partnered with the Mmofra Trom Center since 2005. Students travel to Ghana throughout the year to learn about this growing country. Bentley professors offer support in accounting, strategy and consulting projects.

Mmofra Trom Foundation

Mmofra Trom Classrooms

The Kids!

Adjetey Olan, Director of The Education Center:

I don't put much stock in promises. People make promises very lightly. I put stock in action. What people do, not what people say they will do. Bentley has given us action, not words. Your students have expressed interest in helping the children build a bead business. They have taken certain actions over the last two years. They have carefully built up a way to market the products our children can produce. They have succeeded. When I ship you 800 bracelets, and you tell me that same day that they need 800 more I know very well that your students are people of action, not people of words. I don't want to spend my time hoping for things that may or may not happen. I want to spend my time working on things that we know we can do for ourselves. We can be in charge of our future. I don't mind spending my day getting the shipping organized--going from official to official to official to get cooperation. That is the work we must do to build the bead business. And the children, this is the work they must do to build the bead business. There is so, so much dignity in work. So much dignity in hard work. The children are working very very hard as students in school, but they also know very very well that they can work on Saturdays, too, for their future. They work happily on Saturdays for their future, knowing the very faces of the Bentley students who are selling the bracelets for them. They cheer each time I tell them the amount of cedis in their school account. It is a fantastic figure. $12,000 is 17,000 Ghana cedis. We thank God each day for Bentley students. Sarah and I don't have to worry worry worry about how we will send all these children to high school. We know very well you are working for the children, too. We sleep well. To all of Bentley, we say thank you thank you thank you.