Background
Collins-Woode, who is a Ghanaian musician, originally came to Denmark in connection with his musical involvement. At a language school he found acquaintance with the Social & health-care College in Aarhus and was surprised that education was necessary to care for the elderly. In his homeland he was accustomed to the elderly were excluded or were perceived as witches and are sent to witch camps.
Today Collins is a trained social and health-care officer and a member of FOA. His understanding of the Danish health-care system for older people, led him to establish Akrowa Aged-Life Foundation (AALF) in Ghana to support the elderly in Ghana.
Currently the organization is building a Social and health-care College to train volunteers to take care of the elderly professionally.
It's a strategy to secure job after training for young men and women as a way to stop them from immigrating to the big cities and Europe to look for jobs, leaving the children in the villages to take care of the elderly.
The project is also taking away the "elder-care" responsibility from the children so that children can now go to school.
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