In commemoration of the birthday of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, a number of students from the University of Ghana Distance Education community under the superintendence of the JCR General Secretary Miss Priscilla Osafo Marfo, partnered with RhandsTour to embarked on a hiking tour to Mount Afadja (Afadjato).
This exercise, in a way, was to expand the expedition knowledge of the team members. The organizer's, led by CEO of Rhands Tour Mr. Nicholas Kwame Opare emphasized that the manifest intention of the trip was to give the participants a physical view of the mountain as it has been heard, particularly of its height.
Mr. Opare asserted that the team has to travel about 178 kilometres (111 mi) northeast of Accra to arrive at the tour site in Laiti Wote, a town in the Volta Region of Ghana. He again mentioned that the team members were very excited when they made it to the vertex of Ghana's highest mountain.
In the views of the Group captain, Mr. Richard Kumah-Don asserted that the visit wasn't only to have fun but was in a way to promote the physical health of all participants, "climbing Afadjato is not only to explore, but to improve on the physical strengths of anyone who makes it to the top".
The group captain recommended that it would be very important for individuals to at least climb the mountain twice every year, and these will enhance their mental and physical well-being for a good living. According to Mr. Kumah-Don, the team used between 30 to 60 minutes for all members to make it to the top of the mountain, which was about 885 metres (2,903 ft) tall with no casualty recorded but only one person hark back.
Mr. Opare concluded by explaining that the team has set it as "an initiative to tour the whole of Ghana and beyond to explore most tourist and historical sites that still exist on the continent if only nature permits them." He said that 2024 was to visit the Cape Coast and Volta Region of Ghana which they have achieved that and in 2025 they would be looking at Eastern Region and, either Ashanti Region or the North Region of Ghana. He mentioned that the group is open to the general public, and anyone willing to join is welcome.
