The Kids Patriot Club-Ghana has officially launched the 2026 edition of its flagship cultural education initiative, Kids Discovering Ghana (KDG), with a renewed call for stakeholders to help preserve Ghana’s languages, traditions, and identity among children.
The media launch, held at the Bureau of Ghana Languages at Kawukudi, Accra, brought together representatives from the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, the Ghana Tourism Authority, the National Commission on Culture, the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board, and other cultural institutions.
Founder of The Kids Patriot Club-Ghana, Eleanora Portia Baffour-Agyei, described the initiative as a response to what she termed a growing cultural disconnect among Ghanaian children.
Addressing participants at the launch, she said the project began in 2017 as “a quiet experiment” driven by concerns that many children were gradually losing touch with their roots, languages, and traditions.
According to her, the initiative has since grown significantly, engaging more than 1,500 children and hundreds of parents over the years, while also attracting collaboration from cultural experts, language lecturers, and creative artists.
Mrs. Baffour-Agyei warned that Ghana risks losing an important part of its heritage if deliberate steps are not taken to promote local languages and traditions among younger generations.
“Every time a Ghanaian child is unable to speak their mother tongue, a piece of our history dies,” she stated, stressing that traditional games, indigenous foods, proverbs, and cultural values were increasingly being replaced by foreign influences and digital distractions.
She further cited findings by the organisation indicating that only 11.8 percent of private and international schools in Ghana regularly teach Ghanaian languages, while 71 percent of such schools have never engaged students in traditional games.
“This is not just an emotional complaint. It is a national crisis,” she emphasized.
The founder noted that KDG seeks to nurture a generation of children who appreciate and celebrate their identity as Ghanaians.
“Our vision is to prepare the mind of every Ghanaian child to fiercely love who they are by deeply understanding and appreciating their identity,” she added.
The Director of the Bureau of Ghana Languages, in a speech delivered at the event, underscored the importance of language and culture in shaping identity and national pride.
The Director said language was “more than words,” describing it as a repository of memory, wisdom, and worldview passed down through generations.
The Bureau also described the initiative as “a rescue mission for identity,” noting that many Ghanaian children today know more about foreign cultures and characters than local historical figures and traditions.
This year’s event, scheduled for August 8, 2026, at the Police Social Centre in Accra, will feature language learning sessions, cultural performances, traditional games, indigenous food exhibitions, and patriotic educational activities for children.
Organisers said the programme would expose children to basic conversational skills in several Ghanaian languages, storytelling, drumming and dancing, while also teaching them about Ghana’s history, symbols, and values.
The Kids Patriot Club-Ghana is also calling on government agencies, schools, corporate institutions, and the media to support the initiative in order to strengthen cultural education and national identity among Ghanaian children.
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