Movement to spread compassion in Ghana’s schools launched

A movement to spread compassion in Ghana’s schools has been launched in Accra. Meshach Bondzie, a career counselor from Accra, was the one who founded it.

Twenty-five activists collectively known as the Ghana Compassion Connectors founded the compassionate living and action movement.
The Ghana Compassion Connectors aim to embark on critical projects across the country to help create “communities of compassion” that will not only bring people together but will also offer critical support, care, and aid to those who need it.

The connectors believe that bringing their activities to schools will help a lot, hence their decision to bring compassion coaching to young people through their schools and colleges.

It plans to create “compassion circles” for young people in all of Ghana’s 16 regions of the country. According to the activists, Compassion Circles, when created in schools, will serve as hubs of support and care, as well as promote knowledge and awareness of the power of compassion.

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By mobilising younger generations, Global Compassion Ghana also hopes to direct its energies towards pressing national concerns like the low educational attainment rate amongst children and the rising climate emergency.

The Movement to Spread Compassion efforts are being supported by the Global Compassion Coalition [1] – an international charity founded in California in 2022 that works to inspire compassionate action across the world.

Meshach said:

“We Ghanaians continue to face many challenges but we also have an incredible resource that we can draw upon: the spirit of our young people. 50% of our population is below the age of 20. These are the people who can change our present and shape our future. I believe that compassion is hard-wired into us but it needs cultivating and coaching. Working with these young people I can see that they are eager for action and want to get stuck into projects that can help their peers and elders to live better, kinder, and happier lives. I am looking forward to building this movement of compassionate action with them and spreading it across the whole of Ghana.”

Mamphela Ramphele [2], Chair of the Global Compassion Coalition, said:

“Change is coming to the continent of Africa. Millions of young people – guided by people like Meshach and his team – are waking up to the empty promises and false narratives they’ve been taught and are choosing a very different future. They are choosing inclusion and community over violence and difference. They are choosing to face-down climate change and call-out the inaction of the global community in the face of the crisis. And they are choosing to embrace a vision for our continent which is based on our common humanity, on Ubuntu. I am excited and honored to see the role group’s like Meshach’s are playing in this transformation.”

Ghana’s Global Compassion initiative mirrors similar projects that have now been launched in Malawi and Uganda as well as in Canada, the UK, and Australia.