Young people from Ghana reveal their hopes and dreams for the future.
"My dream for the new milllennium is that there is world peace and world leaders would rather fight against racial discrimination, corruption, child labour, gender inequality and rule their respective countries with democracy." Alex Ofori, Accra
"My dream for the new millennium is that I want to see a world free of war, racism, diseases, theft, rape and other social vices. Also, I feel all children of school going age should have equal access to education at all levels." Masud Ashitey, from Accra
"My dreams for the new millennium are: I hope all the children in the world will be very intelligent and obedient.I have a lot of dreams but I have to go. BYE for now." Serwaa, from Accra
"When I’m grown
up I want to be a fisherman and to make enough money to buy my own boat."
"I’d like to be a teacher, I don’t want to be a fisherman. Teachers
are important people."
Peter, aged
13 and Alex, aged 16, Ghana
"I want to be a nurse or a doctor so I can help to make sick people better. I’ll have to study science and maths and then go to university to train. In the year 2000, I would like my country to build more hospitals so that when someone falls ill they can always get to a hospital." Abida, aged 12, Ghana
"I live in a good house. Every day I read and write and I'd like to be a nurse or doctor in the future. My brother is a teacher and my sister is training to be a nurse. When I grow up I want to travel to England or America. I've never been anywhere except Ghana." Sylvie, aged 8, Ghana
"When I grow up I want to be a bank manager, because I'd get a lot of money. If I had the opportunity I'd like to get back to school to continue my education: that would help me get a good job and earn some money." Peter, aged 10, a street child from Ghana
"I hope to become either an architect, because I like fashionable houses and I also like drawing, or else an economist, in order to help develop my country’s economy for the future." Selom, a Ghanaian at The British School of Lomé, Togo
"I want to be a person of influence – I want to be someone who can change a lot of ideas in the world, like I really do want to combat racism because that’s one thing that is really, really eating me up... I want to start somewhere in Europe because in Africa there’s very little racism compared to in Europe. I know wanting to combat racism is a very, very time-consuming activity and if I find out that I’m not able to live up to my goal there something else that I would like to do, and that’s to work to make the role of women in my country more important." Priscilla, a Ghanaian at The British School of Lomé, Togo
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