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From a shack to a school.

Old Fadama, officially Korle Dudor, lies on the Korle lagoon a few minutes from Parliament. Outsiders called it “Sodom and Gomorrah”. Most people here are good people trying to escape the poverty of their villages. That is why the Archbishop gave this place a new name: City of God.

The orange door of the City of God clinic on inauguration day
  1. 15 July 2002The Franciscan presence begins in a rented shack in Korle Dudor (Old Fadama), feast of St Bonaventure.
  2. 2003First night classes for Konkomba youth, sitting in a pito bar; in December a wooden school is built.
  3. September 2006A fire destroys more than a hundred shacks and the school. It is rebuilt by the end of the year.
  4. 2008Peace Beads Craft opens for young mothers.
  5. 2011Classes for children who are not in school begin.
  6. 10 February 2015The restored Peace Adults School is inaugurated by H.E. Mrs Matilda Amissah Arthur, Second Lady of Ghana.
  7. 2 January 2017The Holy Bakhita clinic is inaugurated.
  8. 7 October 2018The rebuilt school is inaugurated.
  9. 4 March 2025A new school is inaugurated with the Archbishop of Accra.

The book

Claudio Turina, a lay missionary from Venice, wrote the novel City of God (2015) in the school, near the students. It was presented in Accra on 11 March 2015 and its author's rights all go to the project.