Ja Rule is in Ghana to supervise the development of a brand new classroom block within the nation’s japanese area.
On Wednesday (April 10), the rapper broke floor on the website at Nuaso Anglican Main Faculty the place the ability is being constructed. Ja Rule teamed up with charity Pencils of Promise to construct a six-classroom unit on the faculty.
Ja Rule mentioned the mission was a approach to give again after the schooling charity honored him with the Audacious Award at their gala final 12 months.
“I’m pleased with that,” he mentioned in a speech in the course of the groundbreaking ceremony. “I’m proud to be out right here and have the audacity to return right here and construct a faculty in the midst of Africa for my folks.
I do know that that is going to be a possibility that may final for a lot of, a few years to return. That is just the start of one thing very particular.”
Ja Rule praised the scholars who recited “superb, superb” poems on the occasion earlier than affirming his dedication to the mission.
“Schooling is the pillar of any neighborhood,” he added. “I will likely be again when the varsity opens as much as come and converse and greet all the children. We gon’ do that actual huge and we gon’ proceed to do that with Pencils of Promise.”
Earlier this week, Ja Rule shared a photograph of himself alongside a quote from the revolutionary former president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. “I’m not African as a result of I used to be born in Africa, however as a result of Africa was born in me,” the unifying quote reads.
Ja Rule additionally carried out a present in Ghana, the place he bumped into comic Michael Blackson.