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Tema International College (SOS Hermann Gmeiner International College) in Ghana is a secondary boarding school in Tema, located about 35 miles from the capital Accra. The school was founded by the world's largest non-profit orphan charitable institution and opened in 1990 with school buildings donated to SOS Children's Villages by Valco (Alcoa in Ghana). There are about 22 full time and 3 part time teachers providing high quality education to gifted English-speaking students of Africa and elsewhere. Most of the teachers are Ghanaian graduate subject specialists, with others coming from India, Ethiopia and the United Kingdom. The syllabus includes both IGCSE and International Baccalaureate. Tema International College caters to talented young students from fifteen English-speaking African countries and helps students to be admitted at major universities in Africa with some students gaining scholarships to universities in the United States, Canada and United Kingdom. The college also seeks to focus students' attention on the development of Africa in order to instil a sense of social responsibility and commitment to the continent in line with the college's motto “Knowledge in the service of Africa”. The school has close links with United World Colleges and is a full member of the European Council of International Schools (ECIS), the Association of International Schools in Africa (AISA) and the International Schools Association (ISA).