About Us

About Newill Academy

Newill Academy is a non-profit Pre-K through 9th Grade school in Koforidua. The school was started in the year 2010 to help needy parents in the community at Koforidua environs.

The school was setup mainly to educate the poor and needy children and help them become rounded people when they grow up in the society.

In collaboration with the Hungarian government agency “Hungary Help” and an NGO “Africa Another Way” as well as the Hungarian embassy in Accra Ghana we’ve got to JHS and had written our first external exams.

“I dreamed a School …

“Newill Academy” was based on my name; half of William, half of Newman. The school was setup mainly to educate the poor and needy children and help them become rounded people when they grow up in the society ....

Mr. William Newman — Proprietor

Our Brief History

Beginning of the Story

The story of Newill Academy started in 2010 when Mr. William Newman, a Ghanaian teacher founded a nursery in an empty storage building next to his mother’s house in Koforidua. His aim is to provide quality daycare and education for children who suffer social disadvantage in the area, mainly the children of the market sellers and street vendors who can’t afford to stay at home with them.

Construction Begin

A group of European architects in close cooperation with the local management have revised the plans in 2016 and soon started the construction works of the low-cost sustainable school building. During the first building phase in 2016 two classrooms and a sanitary block were completed and the walls of two additional classrooms had been raised. These semi-finished classrooms were already in use during the 2016/17 school year.

Construction 2nd Phase

During the next summer holiday in August 2017 our volunteers had completed the floor slab above the classrooms, added a staircase, erected the walls of the first floor classrooms and harvested and prepared bamboo for the facade. Two more building phases should follow in the next years to complete the academy which provides comfortable and suitable room for the 240 pupils.

Built Academy

Around 2020, the academy had been completed enough to be ready for fully functional classes.

The classes happened regularly, and there has been support for stationary and other materials like Computer lab, Science lab provided by our generous donors and supports.