By Emmanuel Nyatsikor, GNA
Adaklu Kodzobi (V/R), Oct. 13 GNA – The pilot Programme of the Hidden Story Project, a community storytelling initiative designed to create safe spaces for people to share untold personal experiences will be launched in Ghana on October 24, 2026.
The launch will take place at Adaklu Kodzobi in the Adaklu district of the Volta region.
Mr Robert Tornu Community Development Advocate, Programmes and Policy Advisor for Friends of Adaklu (FoA), local non-governmental organization Monday disclosed this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency at Adaklu Kodzobi.
He said the Project was a new initiative that would help rekindle storytelling in Ghanaian communities.
Also, he stated that this new Initiative was built around “a simple observation of our lives that are filled with experiences that could become meaningful stories.”
Mr Tornu said Madam Betsy Benoit, a Founding Partner who served as the Project Lead and her team would arrive in the country on Wednesday, October 21, 2026 for the launch.
He noted that FoA is the local Partner and Community Liaison that brought the relationship, local leadership and cultural guidance which were essential to the work in Adaklu.
Mr Tornu disclosed that Campfire Tales was the Storytelling Partner which led the story discovery workshops with the developing and field-testing the multilingual technology.
He said Ho Technical University contributed Ghanaian language expertise and supported linguistic and cultural interpretations whilst PROOF, Media for Social Justice served as Fiscal sponsor and Partner.
He stated that apart from the launch the team would visit schools at Adaklu Hehekpoe and Adaklu Dawanu where they would interact with the Hidden Story Project ambassadors and organized school and after school story telling sessions.
Mr Tornu noted that they would also visit Adaklu Tsriefe to observe the art and craft works of students entrepreneurs who are beneficiaries of FoA at their “Nunya Village.”
He informed the GNA that Mr Weston Cox of TomorrowLabs served as the Project’s Technology Lead.
GNA
Edited by Maxwell Awumah /Kenneth Odeng Adade